Ava C. Cipri is a non-binary queer writer, educator, and activist in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a co-founder and poetry editor of The Deaf Poets Society: An Online Journal of Disability Literature & Art. A Pushcart, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net nominee, her work appears or is forthcoming in Cimarron, WHR + Moth, and […]
Ava C. Cipri
Ava C. Cipri: Red Phase, Day 8
11am During workshop, everyone mute when not sharing, please. Lex reads her poem on Zoom. A distressed squawking masks her words. What’s that shrill noise? She removes her glasses, looks into the lens, my parakeet. This isn’t delightful chirping chatter, this isn’t song. The insistent screeching grows longer, louder. Trudy’s mate died…needs another companion. I’d […]