Urbanshee Andrea Gibson Is there room to bloom

Is there room to bloom or does the harvest only come in the afterlife

and the search for home

Exploring the interplay of adolescence and media

Abraham is a “scripter of breath” who moves fluidly across poetic forms and linguistic borders to mourn the plight of the Palestinian people and to praise their resilience

instead we are imperfect forges capable of creating lives and legacies

Urbanshee Andrea Gibson Is there room to bloomSiaara Freeman, 2022 Urbanshee is Siaara Freeman's retelling of fairy tales and mythological stories through a modern and urban lens. This collection discusses the weight of being Black in America, Freeman's relationships to lovers and family, and how the physical place you grew up can become part of your identity. Urbanshee expertly combines humor, fantasy, and raw emotion to create this astonishing reinvention of classic fables. Freeman's poems are