perhappened mag
issue 10: DAYDREAM
april 2021
cover art by aleah dye
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meet our guest reader |
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Taylor Byas (she/her) is a Black poet and essayist.
Originally from Chicago, she moved to Alabama for six years, where she received both her Bachelor’s degree in English and her Master’s degree in English (Creative Writing concentration) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she is a second year PhD student and Albert C. Yates Scholar at the University of Cincinnati studying poetry. She is also a reader for The Cincinnati Review, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus.
She has received four Pushcart and six Best of the Net nominations, and has won a Best Microfiction Award. She is also the 1st Place Winner of both the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest and the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets.
Her chapbook, BLOODWARM, is forthcoming from Variant Lit (2021). She is represented by Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency.
endless thanks to taylor for curating these lovely pieces & being a dream to work with! want a sweet dream of your own? then read on.
– isaura ren, editor-in-chief, perhappened mag ♡
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i. the loving |
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ii. the leaving |
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– creative nonfiction –
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– poetry –
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iii. the burning |
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– poetry –
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– microfiction –
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– prose poetry –
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– poetry –
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iv. the being |
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– prose –
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– poetry –
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– prose –
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– poetry –
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