Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges and the life-saving power of

and the life-saving power of friendship

joined the Great Migration

This is about what grows through the wreckage

Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer

Girls are strong and powerful alone

Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations Lawyers & Judges and the life-saving power ofThe 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