Lauren K. Alleyne
Lauren K. Alleyne is the award-winning author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and is coeditor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). A 2020 nominee for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry and finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards, Alleyne is currently a professor of English at James Madison University and the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center.
Reading List
Gretel’s Note on Normal
You want, I know, to go back to normal, that distant, sepia-sweet place your memory has touched up with erasure and longing— I know. I can tell you how in the hell of the cottage —that kidnapping-cum-quarantine— all I could think of was home. I drew the blanket of the familiar over my days and […]