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Root Work Journal - Summoning Flight - Volume 2, Issue 1
I Asked My Mother What Will I Be & Cornelia Street
Shakeema Smalls
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.47106/12567751
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Poems "I Asked My Mother What Will I Be" and "Cornelia Street" capture the art of summoning flight.
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Shakeema lives in Georgetown, South Carolina. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Rigorous, Tidal Basin Review, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, and PANK, among others.
Citation: Smalls, S. (2022). “I Asked My Mother What Will I Be” and “Cornelia Street.” Root Work Journal, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.47106/12567751
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