MENDING THE RIFT: A POETICS OF HEALING

JENNIFER MARITZA MCCAULEY’s Kinds of Grace: Poems explores the complicated facets of Blackness and Afro-Latinidad, mental health issues, womanhood, and the power of healing racial wounds. The Blue Mimes: Poems by SARA DANIELE RIVERA investigates catastrophic grief – from the pandemic to the present, from Albuquerque to Lima to Havana, between the rifts in communion that afford the possibility to heal. EMILY JUNGMIN YOON’s Find Me as the Creature I Am: Poems holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animals, too, in poems full of wonder and want that explore our most fundamental instincts and capacity for affection.

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