Also, everyone should go read Michelle Evans’ new poetry collection that was just released as May’s
Also, everyone should go read Michelle Evans’ new poetry collection that was just released as May’s issue in the booklet series. Here’s what I wrote about her collection titled Just Another Dead Black Girl: With the length of the line as her instrument of choice, which wraps around tightly into prose-like columns of text and breaks off suddenly into searing phrases that serve to punctuate and organize the narrative, Evans lays out a map into this region. And it is both across a landscape of distinct memories of violence and with them as companions that we move through the poems in order to arrive at the heart of the things: the violence of the family, of capitalism, of gender, and of the social and legal regime of anti-blackness that condemned Nia Wilson. We arrive also at the interior, at heartbreak and aching desire that cannot be erased even by so much death. We find ourselves here in this portrait of a survivor, who facing constant danger still wants and even pierces the devastation with her wanting. The culmination of which is the writing of this collection which places Evans among the very icons she invokes: there was Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, now there is Michelle Evans. Her poetry is free to download as a pdf over on patreon here; and free print copies are available for trans women who can’t afford to subscribe to the series, just message me. -- source link
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