Palm-Lined with Potience Ariana Harwicz both redemptive and heartbreaking

both redemptive and heartbreaking

plus a conversation between two women poets from Uruguay: Laura Chalar and Laura Cesarco Eglin discuss exile

They include healing wells

and every day it reminds me that I’m home

Palm-Lined with Potience Ariana Harwicz both redemptive and heartbreakingPalm Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allens debut collection of poems. Basies work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. While rooted in Pro Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a tumultuous sea of