Hi everyone!
I know it’s been relatively quiet on this front, and that’s for a few reasons, but let me start by saying that I missed you all! I’ve been focused on my career for the past year and doing more events, so I’ve had more time away from my writing than for my writing.
But since I’ve been away from you, I’ve had the honor of having these pieces published:
- Mama Nevel, page 40
- black hands pick cotton in 2019
- Dear Black mothers whose children die by white hand
- Two Poems: welfare check & “Not what we expected”
Check ’em out and leave a comment what you think of any of them below.
But most of all, I had a manuscript accepted from publication by Nightingale & Sparrow! It is a poetry versionbased on the prose manuscript I’d been talking about, previously, “For You, My Best Friend,” but this work is called you were supposed to be a friend, and you can check out the details of this work here. (In case you couldn’t tell, the featured image is the cover!) I am continuing the prose version as well as a space of reflection, so hopefully that will be picked up too once I finish all of the steps involved. But if not, I will say “Thank you” and walk away from it.
That is one thing I’ve learned during my time away. It is okay to let things go if they aren’t for you. Not just with poetry, but also with relationships, jobs, and material things. You have to protect your energy.
Aside from that, I have begun compiling a manuscript about family matters, and I am also looking for a place to publish my other mansucript that has a new title of “black has every right to be angry.” I have revised it, and it’s ready for the world. Will I keep it as a chap? I’m not sure, but I know it is worth being in the world.
Sending light and love y’alls way in this super trying time,
Ashley Elizabeth
PS – I will get better at posting!
Ashley Elizabeth 
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