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Gathering The Waters

Keisha-Gaye Anderson's poems in the collection, "Gathering the Waters" are beautiful. These poems are like a box of delightful belongings, like a container of tangible things that cause us to recollect other pictures, other days. Anderson speaks about all of the people of colors in the Western Hemisphere as they live and work in poems that move relentlessly yet are accessible, understandable. An essential and lovely collection. I won't soon forget "Mask," or "The Purge," or "Survival." Ah, "A Message to My Descendents" is beautiful. These are poems to return to again and again.

Keisha-Gaye Anderson will be a participating writer at Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8 &9 in Hobart, New York, The Book Village of the Catskills
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A Few Whiles

Breena Clarke
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in ...more
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