The Oppression Tables: Genesis

CYNTHIA PARKER-OHENE holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College of CA. Cynthia has attended and received support from Tin House Summer Writers Conference, Juniper, and Callaloo, and others. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Kweli, and Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, among others. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and winner of the 2017 chapbook prize for Drapetomania, published by Backbone Press.