Dear Voice: Speak

In her debut book of poetry, Dear Voice: Speak, Jennifer Mojica-Academia shares with the reader her most honest moments, though not always pleasant, opening years of buried pain until there is nothing left to do but to speak.

Jen takes a hard look at herself in poems such as "My Complete Sentence," "Starving to Be Free," and "I Am More Than a Vagina." Jen does not propose a solution to her pain, but rather a release through writing, as only a true artist can describe. She writes because she...