This Here Is For Our Survival: Poems of Tender Reckoning

This Here Is for Our Survival is a debut poetry collection that speaks directly from the marrow of lived experience at the intersection of Blackness, masculinity, grief, love, and political awakening. These poems do not ask for permission. They confront. They testify. They linger.

Rooted in personal history and sharpened by social critique, the collection moves through boyhood and manhood, intimacy and loss, desire and restraint, faith and disillusionment. The poems grapple with what it mean...