about the poet
Justice Ameer is a poet, facilitator, and political educator in Providence, RI. Xe is a co-founding member of blackearth collective + lab. Xe is a two-time Providence Grand Slam champion and a member of the inaugural co-champion team of the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam. Xe is a Pink Door Fellow and Faculty member, and xe was an Artist-in-Residence at Williams College in Spring 2020. With Chrysanthemum, Ameer co-created the theatrical production ANTHEM at American Repertory Theatre’s OBERON.
Xyr work can be found in Split This Rock, the Academy of American Poets, POETRY magazine, The Shade Journal, The Nation, and anthologies The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic and Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems among others.
photo by: Casey Orozco Poore