Meditates on Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two-engaging in deep study of its individual tracks, while also painting the album's movement as a seamless stitching of vignettes that bleed into each other.
Kameryn Alexa Carter is a founding co-editor of Emergent Literary, a journal for black and brown artists. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, The Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere. You can find her online at kamerynalexacarter.com.