DeeSoul Carson is a poet and educator from San Diego, CA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. His work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, AGNI, The Offing, & elsewhere. His chapbook, Running From Streetlights (2020), is a meditation on Blackness in America during the “Summer of Racial Reckoning.” A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from the NYU MFA program, the Watering Hole, and the National Endowment for the Arts. ​

DeeSoul’s poetry is interested in the interrogation of laughter and joy as it pertains to Black existence, asking what keeps Black people laughing despite their struggles, who’s laughing with them, and who’s not quite in on the joke.

His debut full-length, The Laughing Barrel, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in Spring 2027.