The Black Pen

<p>Poetry is such a sacred space dontcha think? I've been writing poetry since I was a little girl. </p><p>I was raised by my mother an English teacher. She had me reading Maya Angelou in the third grade so believe me when I say it's in my blood.</p><p>Another unavoidable truth within is my blackness. I am a black woman born and raised in America. </p><p>I have fallen in love black. I have struggled black. I have grown up black.</p><p>This book of poems is the representation of that.</p>