More affirmation than verification, in order to know something, it must resonate.

A Gathering Together's Jaminnia R. States interviews featured poet Kailande Cassamajor.

A Small Place is Kincaid working out the continuation of that ongoing modern myth, of how her homeland, once her Eden, was disfigured after her flight from it.

I prayed that she wasn’t dead as I questioned my desire to pray in such a haunted state.

the people watchred-eyedoccupiedscratching an ungodly itchwith the points of knives

unrecognized ancestorsare still ancestors

It’s the permission we call a prayer to live at all... and not just do.