The Collection Plate: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide and this new collection features

and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date

goes to Temple

revealing never-before-told stories of her life in the fast lane

" - Christian Science Monitor

The Collection Plate: Poems Fiction_Gift_Guide and this new collection featuresA deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and