simone reid

Simone Reid (she/they) is a cultural worker from New York. It’s her aim to hijack the written word for our anti-imperialist struggle. Their poems appear or are forthcoming in POETRY, Gordon Square Review, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU, supported by the Lillian Vernon Fellowship.

selected poems

FORTHCOMING
"THE VANDAL AND THE STATUE" and "PERHAPS MORE UNIVERSITIES PROMOTE MORE [VANDALS]" in Diode Poetry Journal
"The night I called the sexual assault hotline" in Transition Magazine
"APORIA 6.0" in Oroboro
“THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE A WOMAN CAN BE IS BY A US ARMY BASE” and “An Environment Hostile to Life” in Unearthed ESF
"APORIA 3.0" and "APORIA 5.0" in POETRY Magazine
"Memphis" in Obisidan 51.1AVAILABLE
"APORIA 2.0" and "APORIA 8.0," the tiny mag, September 14, 2026
“Dialectic," Frozen Sea, August 15, 2026
"HAITI" and "THE EGG, THE WISH, AND THE RESOUNDING CRACK," Pacifica Literary Review, May 15, 2026
"A MARTYR'S WILL," Off My Dome, May 15, 2026
"The Body is also a Colony," Gordon Square Review, May 15, 2026
“Haitian Revolutionist,” Protean Magazine, August 15, 2024
“THE GODS ARE CALLING ON YOU SACRIFICE WHAT YOU HOLD DEAR,” Broken Promises: Artists in Solidarity through the Lens of James Baldwin [Zine], 2024
“Things that Run,” The Academy of American Poets, September 13, 2023
“Friendship,” HOOT Review, February 2023
“Sleeping with Violence,” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Volume 48.1, 2023 [Print]UPCOMING READINGS
Crown Heights Lit Night, Wednesday, Sep 23, 7-9pm @ The Crown InnAWARDS/HONORS
2026, Galway Kinnell Memorial Scholarship, Community of Writers
2025, Lillian Vernon Departmental Fellowship, New York University
2024, James Baldwin Centennial Zine Contest, Eastern Arts Alliance
2024, James Tate Memorial Scholarship, Juniper Summer Writing Institute
2023, Inaugural Student Poet, Honors Convocation, University of Richmond
2023, University Prize, Academy of American Poets
2022, Semifinalist, Adroit Prize for Poetry, Adroit Journal
2022, Finalist, Creative Nonfiction Contest, So to Speak