Haiku Poetry Awards Finalist - Maya

Maya Odim is a poet who explores ways speech is made up of both words and how they are said whose writing is interested in telling stories of transition like: death (transitioning from earth), dancing (transitioning through movement), and living elements in relation to each other (transitioning through interactions). Maya also works interdisciplinarily to choreograph movement from poems both she and others have written, working to mount performances in community with others and in an effort to build with others. Their haiku, "You All Ways" considers the way one's spirit lives on after their physical body transitions in death.

You All Ways by Maya Odim

He passed away. Then

in an elevator I

saw his tag, alive.