B. 1999
DeeSoul Carson, a black person with short black hair and a green shirt, smiles in front of a background of leaves

Photo by Nicholas Nichols

DeeSoul Carson (he/him) is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA. Carson’s work has been published in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, and other publications. His chapbook, Running from Streetlights (self-published, 2020), is a meditation on Blackness in America during the “Summer of Racial Reckoning.”

A Stanford alum, Carson earned his MFA from NYU where he received a fellowship. He also received fellowships from The Watering Hole, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation. Carson lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.