The Vines To A Grape: Letters to a Rapist

The Vines of a Grape is a raw, unflinching collection of diary entries and letters written in verse-direct confrontations with the rapist, with the body, with the Philadelphia communities, and with the justice system that failed to protect. These poems grow like tangled vines: some weighted with anger and grief, others stretching toward resilience and reclamation.

Through testimony, indictment, and survival, the collection captures the searing realities of sexual assault-its aftermath in mem...