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Remica Bingham-Risher

Remica Bingham-Risher
Remica Bingham-Risher is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the Writer’s Chronicle, New Letters, Callaloo, and Essence, among other journals. She is the author of three volumes of her own poetry: Conversion, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award; and Starlight & Error, winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. She lives in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.


What Was Desired Before You Were Born: Remica Bingham-Risher on the Weight of Names

With Appreciation for Forrest Hamer, New Edition, Drake, and Beyoncé
August 31, 2022  By Remica Bingham-Risher
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