Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and I Share Our Birthday Cake and Don’t Talk about the Bullet

A poem.

Em Dial

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Em Dial

Em Dial won the Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award in 2019 and the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award in 2020. She has also been selected as a 2022 Kundiman Fellow.

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