darlene anita scott
darlene anita scott is a writer and multidisciplinary artist who explores corporeal presentations of trauma and the violence of silence, especially in Black girls. She has exhibited her artwork on the “good girl” widely and is author of poetry collection Marrow (University Press of Kentucky, 2022) and chapbook What We’ve Become (Finishing Line Press, 2025). She also coedited the creative-critical volume Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2020).
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Watershed
I imagine March 16, 1991 when ticker tape / announced hers first & last; that I began the reluctant task of dispensing the / surprise of death into my fifteen-year-old imagination.
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Books: What We've Become by darlene anita scott
Blog Editor Chase Isbell interviews Shenandoah contributor darlene anita scott about her poetry chapbook What We’ve Become, a collection about love.