Destiny Birdsong

Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, essayist, and fiction writer who lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has either appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review,, The BreakBeat Poets Presents: Black Girl Magic, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published by Tin House Books in October 2020, and her debut novel is forthcoming from Grand Central in February 2022.

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Cover Photo: An image of a healthcare working staring straight into the camera

Surviving Karen Medicine

How do you navigate a healthcare system that wasn't designed for you?

Destiny Birdsong

Feb 18, 2021

Columns | Home/Girl/Health

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When There Is No Right Way to Heal

The details of those poems may be his first inkling that I know what he did.

Destiny Birdsong

Nov 12, 2020

People | On Writing | Debut

Cover Photo: illustration of a row of Black women sitting at a deli counter, talking and eating, all wearing bright, bold colors in a variety of patterns

and though the odds say improbable

they ain’t superhuman. ain’t always able / to save the children the men the country or even your silk presses / but whatever they touch. somebody’s good god blesses.

Destiny Birdsong

Jul 01, 2020

Catapult | Poetry