SALEEM HUE PENNY (him/friend) is a Black, disabled, “rural hip-hop blues'' poet punctuating his hybrid/mixed media work with drum loops, Jim Crow artifacts, and birch bark. A proud Cave Canem Fellow and member of O|Sessions Black Listening cohort, Saleem edits at Bellevue Literary Review, and was a 2021 Poetry Coalition Fellow. A worker-owner of Cooperation Racine in West Englewood, Chicago, his work is rooted in Disability Justice.