Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water: Poems

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A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California.
the states insistence that it is/was not involved in the US projects of imperialism or chattel slavery), Hughes illuminates the intersections of history, grief, and violence.
reveals in its pages that, while many things have changed over time, ultimately the question of what freedom meant and looked like for Black people in the early 20th century retains the same murkiness and contradictions for Black people today.

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E. Hughes poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Guernica, Poet Lore, Indiana Review, and Gulf Coast Magazineamong others. They are a Cave Canem fellow and have been a finalist for the 2021 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, longlisted for the 2021 Granum Fellowship Prize, and a semifinalist of the 2022 and 2023 92Y Discovery Contest. In 2021, they received their MFA+MA from the Litowitz Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University. Currently, Hughes is a PhD student in Philosophy at Emory University studying black aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism.