Jayy Dodd
For Michael “Tiger Mandingo” Johnson, Or 89 Prayers
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For Michael “Tiger Mandingo” Johnson, Or 89 Prayers
jayy dodd is a writer and artist born in Los Angeles, now based in Boston. He’s a senior editor at The Offing and Blavity. His work has appeared / will appear in Lambda Literary, Crab Fat Magazine, Prelude Mag and THOSEPPL among other online culture sites and magazines. His first chapbook [sugar in the tank] is forthcoming on Pizza Pi Press. He is the co-director of Books of Hope, a youth poetry publishing and performance program based in Somerville, MA.
NOTE: The poem includes text taken from “89 Gay Black Men Pen Letter to Michael ‘Tiger Mandingo’ Johnson” on Mused.
This poem is not previously published.