sadé powell’s dontbeabitterbtch

dontbeabitterbtch layers typewritten poems and monoprints that conceal and defer, tracing interior life through text and image.

Paperback | 96 pgs. | 8.5"x7"x25" | $18.00 

Sadé Powell is a concrete poet based in Staten Island, NY. she uses a 1930s royal typewriter and experimental print and paper techniques to explore black feminist poethics, drawing on black vernacularity and dissemblance. her debut, dontbeabitterbtch (selva oscura press, 2025), layers typewritten poems and monoprints that conceal and defer, tracing interior life through text and image. she is also the author of wordtomydead (ugly duckling presse, 2023) and periodluv(belladonna*, 2023), and is the 2025 recipient of the anna rabinowitz award and a jerome hill artist fellow in literature.