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Dendrochronology by Bethanie HumphreysIn her debut poetic collection, Dendrochronology, multi talented artist and writer Bethanie Humphreys paints her struggle against a life almost suffocated by lack of acceptance. The rings on the raw, exposed face of this body of work track the course of an intense, introspective, emotional life told in aching verse. We bear witness to the shedding of outdated societal norms; a journey of beatific, sometimes tragic, maturation. Indigo Moor, In the Room

cultural—is birthed

Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times

” –Nicole Dennis-Benn

this collection is vulnerable

while her “properly cultivated” sister is extolled for being “perfect” in every detail

and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I

Trees become sites at which what’s remembered marries what’s present–where heartwood and sapwood touch–and grief and loss can be healed “by compartmentalizing / the damage

"I am the only one in the car / without a baby

and histories in defiant poems of revision and joyous reclamation

like a series of carefully wrought equations

he tells the story of how a once unstoppable child

” The New Collected Poems is edited by Michael Davidson of the University of California at San Diego

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