July 5, 2026

Anya Johnson

Anya Johnson

Anya Johnson is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been published in or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Drift, Afternoon Visitor, Pembroke Magazine, Hobart, Scaffold, and on Poets.org, among others. She is a freelance editor, actor, and visual artist. Read more at anyajohnson.com. 

I wanted to be in on the joke,
the back-slapping, to be immune.

Then I remembered 
my life.

POEMS 

Growing up in a female body, in America, sex was more commodity than pleasure, and female desire rarely entered the equation. When it did, it was filtered through a masculine, capitalist lens and was something to be mapped out or repaired.

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