https://bitterkalli.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e77d650a5fcf25bb6cbc93/1625783924865-U1ZJJT5B6GBZRR0O7SBY/000026550009.jpg Home Image description: Gently rippling water is pictured above an outcropping of gray rocks and moss. https://bitterkalli.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-19 https://bitterkalli.com/land-work daily 0.75 2026-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e77d650a5fcf25bb6cbc93/1625835133326-DG95HRE3RY7GOP3IBWJU/000026550008.jpg Land Work Image description: A flowing waterfall on the left side of the image is pictured alongside mossy rocks. The sunlight reflecting off the dark green of the water contrasts the washed-out grays of the rocks. https://bitterkalli.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e77d650a5fcf25bb6cbc93/1625841127341-3QET3TDUAKSZ6FZIGHMH/000026550007.jpg Writing publications note: previously published as Amber Officer-Narvasa newsletter Groundwater: A Newsletter About the Personal and the Planetary nonfiction “Text Me When You’re Done: Abolish the Family,” AFM, April 2026 “On Sugarcane, Bad Bunny, and the Making of the Americas,” Plantcraft, March 2026 “Freedom is a Horse,” Harper’s Bazaar, June 2023 “Altar of Repose,” BOMB Magazine, February 2023 ”To Be Black and Restful on the Body of the Earth,” Guernica, February 2022 ”This Fashion Archivist and Shop Owner Is a Collector of Black Stories and a Lover of Literature,” Architectural Digest, December 2021 ”Burial Rights,” Urban Omnibus, November 2021"Omnipresence: How Surveillance Strategies Affect the Wellbeing of Black Communities," Recompiler Mag, Winter 2020 “Alvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2020 “Rosa Parks’ Practice,” Brooklyn Yoga Club, October 2020 "Black horse culture and living in pleasure: in conversation with Wild Talk's avry jxn," Scalawag Magazine, March 2020 "Ebony G. Patterson: ...to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil?" The Brooklyn Rail, Dec/Jan 2020 "Unburdening the Object," Arts.Black, December 2017 "Alive Someplace Better: EJ Hill's Horizontal Poetics," Arts.Black, August 2016 "Making and Unmaking: A Freewheeling Exploration of Artistic Practice," The Studio Museum in Harlem, Summer 2018 "Hold Your Breath: Blackness, Worldmaking, and the Racial Ontology of Lungs," Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Spring 2018 "Fake," Entropy Magazine, January 2017 "Mini-Syllabus: Memes and Blackness," Entropy Magazine, November 2016 fiction and poetry “Mango Market,” Triquarterly Magazine, Summer 2021 ”In Praise of Black Weariness,” poetry playlist for Verse, May 2021 "across-ing," re:claim magazine, March 2018 "some visual meditations on monsters and dreams," re:claim magazine, December 2017 "this is a poem birthed from the predictive," re:claim magazine, November 2017 "i can offer you only my folded palms," Quarto Magazine, Spring 2017 "ship's/hold/jive," Apogee Journal, March 2017 residencies & fellowships School for Poetic Computation Code Societies, Winter 2020, New York, NY Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2019-20, Trinidad & Tobago BUFU Eyedream Residency, Summer 2018, New York, NY https://bitterkalli.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-04-19 https://bitterkalli.com/services daily 0.75 2026-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/294748f1-eac5-43e7-9f28-91ccf0dcc37b/imgg-demo-AbuF0fn3.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/f64d269d-6648-4fff-8ded-3294bd99b0c4/imgg-demo-ZRjbSa11.png