Jacquese Armstrong received the 2018 Naomi Madgett Long Poetry award. Her book, blues legacy will be released in February.

Many days we passed Miss Daisy’s house and yelled hi. She would usually call us up on her front porch to visit. She would be sitting in her rocking chair

“I’ll be damned if anybody beat me again, tellin me I’m ugly and worthless. What’s family? I don’t need you

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