Gumbo YA YA Screenplays it captures with utterly mesmerizing

it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist

Weaving in his own experience as a scout and journalist

the talent to make the petty an intrinsic part of the profound

reminding us that each of our lives is extraordinary

Gumbo YA YA Screenplays it captures with utterly mesmerizingWinner, Cave Canem Poetry Prize Winner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry Winner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry) Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of