Malcolm Friend | When You Tell Me the Next Emperor Will Be Kinder, I Remember

Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full-length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018), selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King as winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Together with JR Mahung he is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective.

Malcolm Friend's Website

Also by Malcolm Friend: Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple El Conde Sings "Babaila" Puerto Rico: An Etymology

Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry: mxd kd mixtape

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Malcolm Friend

When You Tell Me the Next Emperor Will Be Kinder, I Remember

The First Battle of San Juan (1898) · The Second Battle of San Juan (1898) · The Third Battle of San Juan (1898) · The Invasion of Guánica (1898) · The Battle of Yauco (1898) · The Battle of Fajardo (1898) · The Battle of Guayama (1898) · The Battle of the Guamaní River Bridge (1898) · The Battle of Coamo (1898) · The Battle of Silva Heights (1898) · The Battle of Asomante (1898) · The Treaty of Paris (1898) · Americanization (1898 — ) · "Encouraged" migration (1899 — ) · The Foraker Act (1900) · The Insular Cases (1901) · Charles Herbert Allen's sugar empire (1901 — ) · The Official Languages Act (1902) · The sanitation of "La Borinqueña" (1903) · The Olmstead Amendment (1909) · The rejected vote for independence (1914) · The Jones-Shafroth Act (1917) · The Merchant Marine Act (1920) · Dr. Cornelius Rhoads (1932) · El masacre de Río Piedras (1935) · The first arrest of Pedro Albizu Campos (1936) · El masacre de Ponce (1937) · La operación (1930s — 1970s) · The Vieques Naval Training Range (1941 — 2003) · La ley de la mordaza (1948) · The Peñuelas Incident (1950) · The bombing of Jayuya and Utuado (1950) · The second arrest of Pedro Albizu Campos (1950) · Operation Bootstrap (1950s — 1970s) · The third arrest of Pedro Albizu Campos (1954) · El Rey de las Toallas (1954 — 1956) · The imprisonment of Oscar López Rivera (1981 — 2017) · The bombs dropped on David Sanes (1999) · The murder of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (2005) · The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (2016) Benevolence sent abuela across the sea to die in strange lands.

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