A Reluctant Chronicling: Natalie Shapero’s Hard Child
“I typically hate discussing the past,” the speaker admits in the title poem, “Hard Child,” then a few poems later, a little more defensively—“I swear to God I hardly think of the past."
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Laura Page
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Àkpà Árinzèchukwu is an Igbo writer. Their work has appeared or forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southampton Review, Poetry Review, Adda, Fourteen Poems, Arc Poetry, Clavmag, A&U Magazine, Middle House Review, Foglifter, Dgëku, and elsewhere. They were a finalist for the Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest in 2020.
What It Means to Hold and Be Held in Jennifer Givhan’s Protection Spell
The book explores ambiguities—in terms of race, in terms of motherhood, but especially in terms of the body and the subconscious.