IN MY FEELINS is both a bracingly candid memoir-in-verse and a chronicle of societal change and controversy in the Obama years. The poems careen from race, sexuality, and family life to immigration, gender roles, and gun violence, but what is notably less itinerant is the voice. That voice-whether deployed as conveyance for weighty considerations of behavioral determinism, or for the poetic exposition of an attraction-is a constant, and is undeniably permeated by Christianity and the influence of the Black church. "When the world makes you into a mixtape, and what you need and what you click on and how you love seems a-jumble, read the poems of Cedric Tillman. These are fabulous poems of candor and jump, muscle and song. But his astonishing new book is also a compendium of testimonies-'Testimonial Poetics' might be a thing, starting now-to help us define ourselves in the moment, and our momentary selves."- Alan Michael Parker "Cedric Tillman knows the reaches of the skipped stone. These poems are all-human-at once vulnerable, humorous and peacock. In My Feelins holds everything up to the light in consideration-from the domestic to the sociopolitical-while the most critical examination is reserved for the self. The reader will find themselves laughing out loud at imaginative political commentary and freshly devastated as Tillman revisits the terrorist attack in Charleston, SC and his own father's death. This collection is reflective of a heart shaped by origin and witness-a life worth reading about."- Kwoya Fagins Maples "'Being free means getting used to the ghosts'-this is the heart of Tillman's collection. Through his mastery of persona and imagery, Tillman gives a voice to all the ghosts of his neighborhood and our neighborhood, the ghosts of his history and ours. In My Feelins is a great lyric collection, and a necessary reminder of the freedoms that can only be achieved by reckoning with the voices inside us and around us."- Jason McCall Cedric Tillman holds a BA in English from UNC Charlotte and graduated from American University's Creative Writing MFA program. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a former Nation Magazine (now Boston Review) "Discovery" contest semifinalist. Cedric's poems appear in several publications including RHINO, Pleiades, Barzakh Magazine, Rove, The Manhattanville Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, The Florida Review, Kakalak, and Home Is Where: an anthology of African American Poets from the Carolinas. In 2016, he was named a semifinalist in the Saturnalia Books & Cleveland State University Open Book Poetry competitions; he was also named a finalist for the University of Akron Poetry Prize. In 2017, he was named a semifinalist for the University of Akron, Philip Levine, and Pleiades Press Editor Poetry prizes, and a finalist for the Press 53 Poetry Prize; that same year, his poem "the flag" received Special Mention recognition for the Pushcart Foundation's Pushcart Prize. In 2018, he was named a finalist for the Pleiades Press Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. "Feed My People (The Toxicology Prayer)," published in RHINO in 2021, earned him second place recognition for the magazine's Founder's Prize. His debut collection, entitled LILIES IN THE VALLEY, was a semifinalist selection for the 2011 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, and was published by Willow Books in 2013. His latest collection, entitled IN MY FEELINS, was published by WordTech in 2019. Cedric hails from Lilesville, North Carolina and Charlotte, where he currently lives.