The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a confessional poetry collection at the crossroads of Black identity, queer desire, faith, grief, and the body. Written in the long shadow of the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan-era 1980s, these poems move between church pews and bedrooms, prayer and appetite, survival and truth. There are no roses or limericks here—only candor, heat, and witness. The voice is direct, vulnerable, and unafraid of the flesh or the spirit.

In the title poem, a young man speaks his final request:
"A sip of water please
a little string beans
Wait now, you're rushing me."

These poems remember the young and the lost, but they also insist on joy, hunger, and the stubborn pulse of life. For readers of Danez Smith, Jericho Brown, and Essex Hemphill, The Last Supper holds God and the body in the same light and refuses to apologize for telling the truth.