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black has every right to be angry AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER
This is the moment I have been waiting for. black has every right to be angry, what was supposed to be my first book publication is now available for preorder from Alternating Current Press as my second chapbook. I make this distinction for a reason. Maybe then was not the right time, but I know…
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My favorite poem from this year
has finally been published! You can access it here. (Edit: This link works on all browsers except Chrome) I write a lot about historical black figures, but Emmett Till’s story touches me somewhat more than other people. My first poem about this particular moment is here. For those that do not know the story of…
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New Publication
Hey y’all! New publication up at For the Sonorous Link just to my poem titled “growing up black girl” is here I am so proud of this piece. Please check it out & let me know what you think in the comments below! – A. Elizabeth
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Snippet letter from the first draft
Like I said in my previous post, the first draft of my nonfiction project (there’s a poetry one coming too!) was written entirely in rants, letters, and poems. Here is a combination of all three from the first draft, something like a prose poem. Feel free to comment and/or make suggestions. I originally wrote this a…
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Easy (Tentative title)
A work in progress. First poem in a long time that I have written outside of the Hollins bubble. Covers part of being a black girl.
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vickers road
jagged vines crack white siding two black doors with single diamond windows rocking on hinges splayed open into hallways windows fallen to ground shattered splintered wooden steps rusted over railings no more mown grass or laundry on clothes wire golden daffodil garden gone green for sale sign leering from the screened-in porch my father says…
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I’m not fine
1. I am not mentally here on a typical day the top row of my teeth get to glisten in the sunlight as I talk about hair and makeup and nails and the little things that don’t really matter while I convince you that this smile is real. It is not. 2. I am angry…
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On police.
i didn’t know about rubber bullets or how to make makeshift gas masks until ferguson mike brown’s body boiling four and a half hours face down, hands up, and bloody in the middle of the street. justice never required six warning shots into your back there is no such thing as protocol anymore when it…
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