The Minneapolis eviction ordinance debate highlights the need for tenant protections and eviction prevention policies.
Sagirah Shahid
Sagirah Shahid is an award-winning poet and was a finalist for the city of Minneapolis' position of poet laureate.
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‘Natural Order’ explores love, trauma and renewal
Donika Kelly’s “The Natural Order of Things” opens with the familiar warmth of Black gatherings and uses bones as a powerful symbol to explore love, queerness, community and healing. With lyrical precision, Kelly moves between tenderness, political awareness and the natural world, offering a collection that speaks to survival and the ongoing work of living in one’s body with honesty and joy.
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In ‘Before I Lie,’ MN poet speaks up for Black women
A powerful review of Dralandra Larkins’ hybrid collection Before I Lie. The book centers truth telling, Black girlhood, ASL, and healing through poetry, prose, and image.