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Ali Black

Ali Black
Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals at All (Jacar Press, 2020), which was selected by Jaki Shelton Green for the New Voices Series and named a finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her writing has appeared in The Offing, jubilat, Literary Hub, Muzzle Magazine, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching, and sharing art.


“Shots Fired on New Year’s Eve,” a Poem by Ali Black

From the Collection “We Look Better Alive”
April 28, 2025  By Ali Black
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Talking How We Talk: On Exploring the Poetic Plenitude of Black Life

Ali Black Considers the Shape of Voice, Theme, and Symbolism
August 2, 2021  By Ali Black
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Letter From Cleveland: On Protest, Laughter, and Finding Breath

Poet Ali Black Marches for Black Lives Matter
June 3, 2020  By Ali Black
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