Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal's sixty-first issue. He is the author The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, and his work appears in Poetry Magazine and many other publications.

Praise for The Choreic Period

"The poet Latif Askia Ba writes, 'I become the verb you have yet to name.' A poet holding space in a future where he waits for us to catch up. The entire book awaits us. In brilliant flashes, the poems pull us into their innovation. A period. Takes the pause. If a period could be italicized, this is the poet who could do it. I love every moment in every poem, I'm a huge fan."--CAConrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

"Latifa Askia Ba wields the period like a composer's baton, creating rhythms that affect change at the somatic level. To read The Choreic Period is to breathe differently. Within this asymphonic linguistic symphony our bodies like words become openings moving 'the subject forward.' Toward . . . Through the intense particularity of the syntax of the ever-humbling disability within and without language, The Choreic Period bears witness to the universal disability of beings locked within what it means to be human. The Choreic Period is a pulling--of stars from drains; is a blessing; is a bless up that leaks the wisdom of knowing 'without understanding.'"--m. nourbeSe philip, author of Zong!

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Pub date: 2025-01-21

Length: 96 pages