Poetry is a powerful reflection. In Kendra Allen’s poetry collection, The Collection Plate, the poems articulate the overlapping experiences of Black girlhood including sex, presence, body, and hair, the latter which has sparked Black women to have personal resistance and care, particularly through natural hairstyles and passing The Crown Act. The title refers to the …
What Kind of Woman is Kate Baer’s debut collection of poems. I am always on the fence about poetry as I think that I am either missing the meaning or misunderstanding the main idea. However, I enjoyed this slim anthology. Written in the vein of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace, the poems stretch from five …
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