Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges Girls are strong and powerful

Girls are strong and powerful alone

joined the Great Migration

where they are the only Black family in a landscape starkly devoid of the warm lushness of his childhood

" --Deesha Philyaw

whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges Girls are strong and powerfulThe acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press. At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. "I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world.," she recalls. "I even stopped praying, but I began