Sonja
Hristina
Bjelić
Poet, birth worker and PhD student based between NYC and Belgrade, Serbia
POET
I completed an MFA in Poetry from New York University in 2019.
My work (often collaborative) has appeared in Gulf Coast, Black Box
Manifold, Leveler, No, Dear, NECK, DATABLEED, 3:AM Magazine and
Mannequinhaus,
among other places.
My current project and first book explores identity, family constellations, love, war, and the potential and fallibility of language.
I searched for you in exiles’ annals,
only to find a reflection of her—
the muse, bearing a flute
Reclining in autumn’s bosom
to feel her body close to mine,
amongst the creatures looking upwards,
our hands becoming their own
choreographers
in the frondescence
I was besieged by pages of verse
she starts, each hour a threnody
sung by a voice from above
When hands penetrated the soft
spaces of my solitude,
I poured black tea into the night,
amassing letters in a cigar box
I stowed between breaths
-excerpted from current manuscript