Cover the Sky with Crows

Cover the Sky With Crows is haunted—by shadows, lost love, lost lives. Osayande fashions doors into mirrors and invites readers to see grief for what it plainly is--an embarrassed sword swallower. This work walks the line of the interior and exterior landscapes of Detroit while boldly naming the complex realities of blackness on fire in America.

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Cover the Sky With Crows is haunted—by shadows, lost love, lost lives. Osayande fashions doors into mirrors and invites readers to see grief for what it plainly is–an embarrassed sword swallower. This work walks the line of the interior and exterior landscapes of Detroit while boldly naming the complex realities of blackness on fire in America. You will walk away quaking at the fragility of what it means to be human in a world so populated by all of death’s names

—Casey Rocheteau, author of Knocked Up On Yes (Sargent Press, 2013), Winner of Write a House

“Osayande’s images are not only vivid, they show emotion that strike the reader like swords to the jugular. The open nature of this collection of poems begs the reader to open themselves up to join Osayande in battle on the front lines of black life, complex love, and family matters. While the writing seems to have come with ease, the topics covered are tough, helping the reader understand that though Osayande is a fantastic artist, he is just as importantly, human.

—Justin Rogers, author of Finding Borders in Pangaea, CWP coordinator for Inside Out Detroit

About the Author

Deonte Osayande is a writer, performer and instructor from Detroit, Mi. His poems have been published in over a dozen literary journals including Camroc Press Review, Prime Number Magazine, and The Missing Slate and have won awards in the Dudley Randall Poetry Contest and the Wayne Literary Review Poetry Contest. He is a two time member of the Detroit National Poetry Slam Team and has competed for Detroit three times at the Rustbelt Midwest Regional Poetry Slam. His poems have reached out as far as Ghana, Nigeria and the UK. As a performer he has shared his poetry on stages across the US and Canada. He is a recent graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy where he received a B.A. in Elementary Education and a M.A. in Liberal Studies. When not writing or traveling he enjoys time with family, taking care of his friend’s cats and he teaches creative writing to inner city youth through the Inside Out Detroit program.

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