Say Her Name

Say Her Name

2020 • 96 pages

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Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley. This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond-and act.

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A great addition to a MS/HS poetry collection, timely, vibrant, and very relatable. The notes included were well done to explain inspiration for the poems and mentor poems and poets. I know lots of teens/poets/writers I'd hand this to.

July 8, 2020