Sid Ghosh
Sid Ghosh
Poet. Levitator of language.
“Silly, surreal, and sacred all at once, Ghosh’s poems recall mystics and mavericks generations his senior: the fifteenth-century Bhakti poet Kabir, the American poets Robert Creeley and A.R. Ammons at their oddest anditty-bittyiest.”
- Christopher Spaide, LitHub
About the Poet
Sid is a levitator of language, easy in his style, fast in his lie, and light in his tale. He is also a poet, not by choice, but by accident. Just your autistic boy-next-door with Down Syndrome. He is 18 for now.His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine and two chapbooks: Give a Book (Push Press, 2022) and Proceedings of the Full Moon Rotary Club (State Champs of San Francisco, 2023).He is also the author of the poetry collection Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole (Milkweed Editions, 2025).Sid lives in Portland, Oregon and you can find him at Instagram @downlikesid. Sometimes he struggles to find himself, though.
Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole is Sid's debut full-length collection — with nearly 100 poems, most of them brief enough to read in a single breath.“There’s little in contemporary poetry quite like Sid Ghosh’s minimalist gizmos.” -lithub.com
“Sid accomplishes more with fewer words than writers near either end of his age range.” Willamette Week
A visionary collection of poetry advocating for the excited, the rebellious, and the neuroqueer.
In this momentous debut, Sid Ghosh invites the reader “to be so free that it scares you.” Leveraging gem-like koans, technicolor wordplay, and earth-shaking wit, he creates startling new worlds in only a handful of words. As a nonspeaking autistic writer with Down syndrome who must navigate immense sensorimotor complexity, his short poems are both muscular and agile, displaying a dexterity replete with vertiginous grace: “Spinning I harness / poetry of the Earth. // The Sufi dances / in me to dare me // to scare your loud / soul to ensnare // my fearful mind to / bare some misery / to bear some truth.”Ghosh writes beyond his years and from a perspective steeped in queer and fractaled sensibilities. As one who is “simply privy to a new road,” he renders neurodiverse thought patterns as truly divine. The poems that result bristle with wisdom, divergence, and the “generosity of deep rivers.” Unprecedented in its genius and composition, this collection of poems is sure to leave readers wide-eyed and breathless.