Crowded Air: Poems

This project is a collection of poems which draw from my experiences as a women's basketball player to explore the personal and political resonances of sport, centered around themes of time, physicality, and connection. The poems document the intimate metamorphoses through which the body passes to reach the edges of its possibilities, and examine structures of nationalism, gender bias, and racism that are inextricable from the sporting world. In creating this poetic landscape, I fuse two worlds which I've kept separate in my mind, but continually find their way towards a kind of interweaving — my creative self and my life as an athlete.