TABLE OF CONTENTS

haiti glass
mud mothers
adaptation
the children of immigrants
we live up here
gift a sea
for how loudly
remember noah
where our protest sound
quaking conversation
because john doe is not a haitian name
her remains
no person
life is another word
mayday
for the sore
self portrait as a heel
a pump of bony pelvis/ ode to michael jackson
silence equals death
madivinez
malden, massachusetts
seeing skinhead
elephant mourning
letter to my father (in english)
pray
desire
anahata
acknowledgments
biography

With rhythmic poetry and intimate prose, Haiti Glass offers an unflinching look at disaster, desire, and death-defying love.

Lenelle Moïse is an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist and internationally touring performance artist. She creates jazz-infused, hip-hop bred, politicized texts about identity, memory and magic. Her poems and essays are featured in several anthologies, including: Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution and We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists. Her writing has also been published in the Utne Reader, Make/Shift, Left Turn, and numerous other magazines and journals. A current Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow, her plays include Expatriate, Merit and The Many Faces of Nia. She lives in Northampton, MA where she was the 2010-2012 Poet Laureate. Haiti Glass is her long-awaited first book.