We Slept Here Ty Chapman In her first collection Afterwards

In her first collection Afterwards she explores

make "dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol

Broadway Actress in Real Women Have Curves

These poems are in my DNA now

In Porsha Olayiwola’s capable hands

We Slept Here Ty Chapman In her first collection AfterwardsSierra DeMulder, 2015. We Slept Here is a case study in vulnerability and honesty. In this sequence of memoir esque poems, Sierra DeMulder pulls at the threads of a past abusive relationship and the long road to forgiveness. The poems themselves become an act of recovery and reclamation, wherein the poet finds again the voice which was taken from her. These are hard poems, made up of clarity and healing, which attempt to share some of their peace with