Posted on Aug 1, 2022
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
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As a young Black woman coming of age, Alora Young traced her life back through generations of Southern women.
She's 19, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family's history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse.
Here's the very first poem from the book, titled "Mother, TN, Many Many Generations":
As a young Black woman coming of age, Alora Young traced her life back through generations of Southern women.
She's 19, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut book Walking Gentry Home archives her family's history – and the legacy of slavery in the American South – in the form of a memoir in verse.
Here's the very first poem from the book, titled "Mother, TN, Many Many Generations":
In a new memoir in verse, Alora Young traces the lives of generations of Black women
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