Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City’s Lower East Side. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. He is the author of Palm-Lined with Potience (Ugly Duckling Presse). In 2020 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poem “Psychic Cartography” is included in MoMA/P.S.1’s Homeroom series of online publications.
Issue #8 – Basie Allen
If Malcolm X had a Monster Truck
Most People Have Shadows But I got Broom Sweeper Man
