Jameka Williams holds an MFA in poetry from Northwestern University. Her poetry has been published in Prelude Magazine, Gigantic Sequins, Muzzle Magazine, Yemassee Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, Jet Fuel Review, and Oyez Review, among others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is a Best New Poets 2020 finalist, published annually by the University of Virginia, and is featured in New American Press's New Poetry of the Midwest 2019. She resides in Chicago, Illinois.
“Every now and then, but rarely, a book of poems comes along that
is biblical in its authority and iconoclastic in its capacity to
rearrange or explode the furniture, the nation, and the self.
American Sex Tape™ is one of those.”—Diane Seuss, author of frank:
sonnets
“Split between a love of watching and the fear created by it,
Jameka Williams demolishes misogynist, racist logic with weaponized
line breaks and wrecking-ball wit. And then does something
stranger, braver: she looks into the camera. Because this is a book
about taking back power, it’s also about the thin line between
pleasure and collusion. ‘I love to see it,’ she admits, ‘I love to
live inside that camera’s orgasm.’ Complex and messy and necessary
in all the ways sex is, American Sex Tape™ is brilliant Black
feminist truth.”—Brian Teare “A triumph of a debut. Part cultural
criticism, part self-investigation, Williams defies genre
convention. Her poems burst onto the page with purpose, veracity,
tenacity, and the self-assuredness of a long-established literary
dynamo.”—Laura Joyce-Hubbard, TriQuarterly
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