The Poetry Project

Saretta Morgan

Saretta, a young black woman in a black shirt and Blue and White beaded necklace, leans forward resting her elbows on the back of a stool. She almost smiles. Behind her hangs a large photograph of a squid tentacle.
© Shaunté Glover

Saretta Morgan is a writer whose work considers the ecologies and intimacies that form in the wake of U.S. militarism. Over the past decade she has worked alongside No More Deaths Phoenix, Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, About Face: Veterans Against the War, the #StopLine3 movement and Veterans for Peace NYC. She is the author of the poetry collection Alt-Nature (2024), and the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (2018) and room for a counter interior (2017). Beyond the page, Saretta has produced interactive multi-media experiences, opening textual engagements to interrogations of physical space and social configurations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Dia Beacon, Tucson MoCA, Carnegie Museum of Art, and elsewhere. Reach her at sarettamorgan.com.