Welcome to Litsy!

Wow. What a powerful book. Sent me into a deep dive on history to learn about amazing women I‘ve not heard about before. @WanderingBookaneer @TheBookKeepers @rachelm I have so appreciated the poets you have introduced me to!!!! The past few years I‘ve been incorporating more poetry into my life. And Rachel—apologies—Coco sent me two books in one package and I mailed the later read to you. I will get this one in the mail to you tomorrow.

@WanderingBookaneer this arrived today! I absolutely loved the goodies you included - thank you!! #lmpbc @SamAnne @rachelm

My 2021 Poetry Challenge #poetry #BLM #inspired #bekind #getinvolved #DogsofLitsy #EstherAssisting #whpg #EstherFest

"History told him that he could squeeze gold from black women‘s wrists with iron cuffs. Is that why he braided the noose to resemble a lasso?"

#blackhistorymonth

I feel like it wouldn‘t be Sunday without a #LibraryHaul 🤓

I loved, loved, loved this book! Part memoir, part ode/tribute to her ancestors and mentors and very thoroughly researched and curated, this book is truly memorable. I had the privilege of attending a reading by the author and it made me appreciate the work and vulnerability it took to create. Highly recommend.

This book is a mix of history, poetry, and memoir/poetry mainly about the history of criminalizing black women in history and raising a black son with the realities of police brutality. It‘s a very quick read but still very informative and powerful.

The author has been quoting from the book Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brother Love, 1880-1910 by Kali N. Gross, Ph.D before many of her poems and so far I have learned that I must read this book.

“Between 1980 and 2014 the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 700%” -The Sentencing Project

For your TBR lists featuring Black History Month in February. From @Bookpage. The author of the review is Vanessa Willoughby.

I inadvertently finished my first #ReadHarder2019 task - poetry collection pubbed after 2014 - because the flap copy for this book doesn‘t mention that DaMaris Hill‘s responses are in poetry form! 🙀 (well, the Claudia Rankine comp should have clued me in, maybe) And they are STUNNING. Each one is for a Black woman “bound” by incarceration, whether enslavement, racism, Jim Crow, misogyny, or the modern prison-industrial complex. Highly recommend.