Antediluvian: Poems

Antediluvian engages with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality. Written in part during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book’s speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artists as they attempt to wade through agoraphobia, parse out their relationship with God, and navigate falling in love. Overall, the landscape of the collection is a deep dive into the speaker’s psyche, and what it means to push past the confines of one’s oppressive interior.

Kameryn Alexa Carter is a poet and founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for the work of black and brown artists. She was a Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation, and is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, Bat City Review, The Best American Poetry 2023 and elsewhere. She is the author of Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025).