Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. He has received fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT, and the Watering Hole. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. He is a candidate for an MFA in poetry at Ole Miss. His rst book, Refuse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) won the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He talks a lot about poems on Twitter at @JulianThePoet.