b ferguson

b is a queer Bahamian poet, essayist, educator and dreamer currently living on the ancestral homeland of the Lenape and Dakota people. By the luck of friends and collaborators, and because of their proximity to and performance for white institutions, their poems and essays have been published and featured in places like The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Metropolitan Museum, Vice News and The Kenyon Review.

They’re interested in engaging creative writing, literature and poetics as a form of political study and practice, and have led such courses and workshops in NYC elementary schools, New York University and The New School. They’re currently working on a book about Hurricane Dorian, the effects of climate change on Small-Island Developing States, and how centuries of far-flung injustices—like colonization, slavery, and numerous inequalities at local and global scales—have come to cause the climate crisis.