"A Gun’s Colloquial Existence" by Krystle May Statler
Krystle May Statler (she/her) is a Black-multiracial artist living in Portland, OR. Her poems are featured in Fugue Literary Journal, Sixfold, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Poetry From Instructions, poetry.onl, 1455’s Movable Type, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and Cultural Weekly. Krystle’s unpublished poetic-visual hybrid, Losing Blood, was a finalist for the 2022 CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest & the 2021 CAAPP Book Prize. Her unpublished anti-memoir, Doing Time: Letters to His Daughter, was long-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Program prize and she was invited to attend the 11th Annual Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, June 2023.
