Pockets

When Shawn Aveningo Sanders says, "I want to be the poet who moves / the stranger in the back of the room, / who just came in for a cup of coffee / to get in from out of the cold," we hear a voice that is tender and wise. Her stunning poems about her father, son, granddaughter, and other worlds she inhabits warm us. We'll want to tuck them in our pockets.

-Carolyn Martin, Ph.D., author of Splitting Open the World

In Pockets, Shawn Aveningo Sanders' beautiful new volume of poetry, we find ours...