ADVENT DAY 20 * MIRIAM BERNARD!

DEAR BROTHERS AT PHI KAPPA PSI, UVA

Go shove your beer bottles

and your honorable top-tier

dicks into your lawnmowers.

Instead of freshman victims,

premeditate this:

Gang rape is a felony,

not an initiation to your sacred

fucking brotherhood.

MIRIAM BERNARD lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is a senior at Indian Springs School. She is taking Douglas Ray’s Writer's Workshop course and wants to study neuroscience and feminist theory in college.

Curatorial note: The following poems are a response to a call for poetry about rape culture for the annual Delirious Advent Feature; the call is in turn an immediate response to the Rolling Stone story “A Rape on Campus” about rape culture at the University of Virginia. However, they are also part of a larger conversation about rape in poetry communities. Curated by Jessica Smith and Susana Gardner.