Never Catch Me Write Bloody author of Counting Descent

author of Counting Descent

Phipps’ debut explores an alternate timeline version of their own childhood and by moving back and forth between those timelines they highlight their own generational inheritance while inviting us to discover our own

A painting of truck headlights and motel parking lots

Tartarus offers the reader an unflinching look into Chapman’s emerging understanding of his relationship to Black masculinity through familial ties

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Never Catch Me Write Bloody author of Counting DescentDarius Simpson, 2022 2023 Midwest Book Award Winner Darius Simpsons debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is saturated in revolution and hope. Never Catch Me is the anthem necessary to organize a community that is committed to a better right nowone that can only