Noah Powers
Writer & educator
About
Noah Powers (they/he) is a queer poet and essayist from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Currently, he is a creative writing
MFA candidate at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Prior to enrolling at UA, he was a high school English teacher for three years in his home state.Their work harnesses the surreal and absurd to reckon with
queer identity as a Southerner and as a means of understanding
the world at-large.
Publications
Poems
"The Other Kentucky Derby"
— HAD
"Cannon-Shot Dog"
— JAKE
“Reading TC Tolbert’s “My Melissa,” & Fantasizing About Self-Mutilation” — Ghost City Review
“Four Poems” & “Five Poems”
— Bullshit Lit
“After Seeing a Drag Show at a Local Bar, a Creature is Born” &
“Jellyfish Blood Cells Like Heroine”
— Screen Door Review
“On A Field Trip, I Read A Queer Person’s Words And Start Freaking Out ” — Many Nice Donkeys
“Chaser for the Dark”
— Don’t Submit!
“I’m Gonna End The World I Think Maybe If I Wake Up Early Enough”
— Rejection Letters
Essays
“Variations on Yankee Candle Scents”
— Autofocus