“I want to talk about simple heartbreaks. I want to talk about simple grief. I want to talk about simple love. And I don’t want to mention Trump in it. “

Black, genderqueer slam poet Khaya Osborne (they/them), 2019 Sacramento Youth Poet Laureate, tells us about poetry as their higher calling, the hierarchy of society, their experiences as a Black Lives Matter protestor, and the pigeonholing of minorities in literary works into narratives of ‘marketable diversity.’

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