C.Lofty Bolling (they/them) is a black, queer, southern poet who has recently relocated to Chicago in 2021 and have been writing poetry regularly since middle school, self publishing since their senior year of high school. Through their poetry they explore notions of identity formations, the quantum imagination, history, ontology and voodoo practices. Read this story at Chicago Reader , Chicago Reader , Chicago Reader , Chicago Reader , Chicago Reader , Chicago Reader