At the DHS Office in Norf Philly or How Extremely Expensive it is to Be Poor
"They are structures, often oppressive structures, that we cannot ignore. To treat them intersectionally is to consider how food is not separate from race, not separate from gender, not separate from ability, etc. and that where a person or community stands at these intersections means that they have radically different life chances and access to food" —Ashanté Reese
Rodrick Minor is a visual artist, poet, and Black foodways advocate from Mississippi and Louisiana. He’s a four-time member of the Baton Rouge National Poetry Slam Team, the 2015 Baton Rouge Grand Slam Champion, and a member of the 2016 Philadelphia National Poetry Slam Team. His work has appeared in Voicemail Poems, The American Poetry Review, Knights Library Magazine, Micro Podcast, Duende, Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore and The Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology (Harper Collins, 2024), Callaloo, Nashville Review, and other forthcoming presses and journals. He is a Best of Net nominee, Cave Canem Fellow, Tin House Fellow, Watering Hole Fellow, Winter Tangerine Alumnus, Hurston-Wright Fellow, and BOAAT Press Fellow. He is currently an editor for Voicemail Poems. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry at Randolph College, where he was awarded the Nancy Craig Blackburn ’71 Fellowship.
