though I never met you or my other grandfather
though I think I would like you more based upon
the July letter that I now read, though you wrote it
to my mot...
Bio: Rita Mookerjee is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State University. Her poetry is featured in Juked, Aaduna, New Orleans Review, Sinister Wisdom, and the Baltimore Review. She is the author of the chapbook Becoming the Bronze Idol (Bone & Ink Press, 2019). She is the Assistant Poetry Editor of Split Lip Magazine and a poetry staff reader for [PANK]. Follow her on Instagram @melanincholia or on Twitter @mookerjeerita.