Sony Ton-Aime’s visionary poem, “To Be Young on the Eve of the Bois Caiman Ceremony,” which was first published in Dear Human at the Edge of Time, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman as a companion to the Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA5), appears in POETRY DAILY! This is Paloma Press’ first time to be featured in the anthology, and we are grateful for this incredible honor.
Sony Ton-Aime is a Haitian poet, essayist, translator, and Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures. He is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Konbit (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2026), the chapbook, LaWomann (Ironworks Press, 2019), the Haitian Creole translation of Olympic Hero: The Lennox Kilgour’s Story, and co-founding editor of ID13.
Founded in 1997, Poetry Daily is an online anthology of poetry published by The Daily Poetry Association, a not-for-profit charitable corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and is edited and produced at George Mason University through a partnership of the George Mason University Libraries and Mason Creative Writing.
