A. H. Jerriod Avant

Biography

A. H. Jerriod Avant’s debut collection is Muscadine (Four Way, 2023). Avant has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Mississippi Review, Callaloo, Ecotone, Boston Review, and other journals. A recipient of two Winter Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Avant is currently a Ph.D. English candidate at the University of Rhode Island and a teaching fellow in English at Wesleyan University.

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POETRY / Spring 2019

Fuh Da Summa

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

I’m docked at a lake that

the people don’t attend. 

 

Machete on my hip to 

make a devil cough up 

POETRY / Spring 2019

p r i d e

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Give me memories as 

slow to leave as snails. 

 

In foreign    and perhaps 

fragile years    I’ll still be able 

POETRY / Spring 2019

Two Pit Bulls & a Bone

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

It is difficult to bark while 

the teeth are clinched 

 

so it goes, deep growl 

after mean-ass growl 

POETRY / Spring 2019

The Day a Cast of My Own Failures Rocked Me

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Suppose we were there for some event 

we did not want in on or did. Faith flung 

 

so hard, the cage I felt around me was 

no cage, just fear, in a summer-long wither; 

POETRY / Spring 2019

What Deer Season Means to Me

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

In the house there were always two 

white deep freezers packed pretty 

decent with red meat. Deer season,