

On a recent episode of The Slowdown Podcast, Major Jackson read the poem “Mother‘s Rules” by Yalie Saweda Kamara. It instantly hooked me. And as I often do, in order to not forget, I check if it‘s available at any nearby libraries.
It was. & here I am to tell you about it.
These are intimate poems; little portraits of her family & heritage hidden beneath, or sometimes standing proudly upon, unconventional framing devices.
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