GRAY DAVIDSON CARROLL
Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Common, Frontiers in Medicine, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, and Columbia University, and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.
I fantasize about a day
when my survival becomes unremarkable
I don’t think it’s the job of poetry, or any artform, to change the world, to address increasing climate catastrophe or growing fascist and authoritarian regimes globally, but it can remind us of shared experience, of collective impact, and of what it feels like to be in a body knowing that everything we touch and love and know is temporary and disappearing.
March 16, 2025
