Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust and Ashes (Californios Press, 2020) and editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal. His recent poetry and prose are appearing or forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Biological Creatures, The Daily Drunk Mag, Frontier Poetry, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Nightingale & Sparrow, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Presence, Saint Katherine Review, Solstice, Twyckenham Notes, and The Windhover. MEH is an educator who received his MFA from Seattle Pacific University, yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education from other institutions. You can find him at MEHPoeting.com writing about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.