Hidden Track

Abstract

Hidden Track Sumita Chakraborty (bio) Keywords poetry, Sumita Chakraborty, outer space, aliens, exploration, truth, race, fear, love, family, safety A poet once saidThere is no there there. I said before that we wantyou to think we’re worthy of saving. The truth is,we made we up. I want youto think I, and the ones I love, are worthy of saving.I am a brown woman who has loved widelyand unsystematically. I, and my we,have a they. Give them a reasonto look up in fear. Lord knows,they’d do it anyway. [End Page 131] Sumita Chakraborty sumita chakraborty is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books [US]/Carcanet Press [UK]), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. She is currently writing a scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, which is under an advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press. The recipient of honors from the Poetry Foundation, the Forward Arts Foundation, and Kundiman, she is assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc