To Be Named Something Else

To Be Named Something Else is a high—spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage—both familial and literary. Centering the coming—of—age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix’s debut collection, in the words of series judge Patricia Smith: “enlivens the everyday—the everyday miraculous, the everyday hallelujah, the numbing everyday love, the everyday risk of just being Black and livi...