Poets

Sin à Tes Souhaits

Sin à Tes Souhaits is a Black poet, cultural critic, and multimedia artist from East Las Vegas. He became interested in poetry as a teenager through watching Def Poetry Jam. He received his MFA in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he won the university’s prize for Outstanding Master’s Thesis.

à Tes Souhaits is a former Clark County Poet Laureate. He has been a fellow at Art for Justice; the Carol C. Harter, Beverly Rogers Black Mountain Institute; The Believer; Los Angeles Review of Books; and other institutions. His writing is featured in The Sun, The Believer, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He founded and directs ACI Creative, a media consulting firm that works with writers, presses, and literary projects.

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More Sin à Tes Souhaits

Text: Read à Tes Souhaits' poem "On Crip" at the Academy of American Poets

Video: à Tes Souhaits is interviewed by Heather Lang-Cassera on his Clark County Poet Laureateship

Text: Read à Tes Souhaits' poem "Trap" at The Sun