Bittering the Wound tops Electric Lit’s List of Poetry Written from Activism’s Front Lines

We’re thrilled to share that Bittering the Wound by Jacqui Germain is at the top of Electric Lit’s list “7 Poetry Books Written From Activism’s Front Lines!”

Electric Lit’s Teresa Dzieglewicz writes:

Germain has a continuous focus on protest as a form of love: for one’s community, for one’s ancestors, for Blackness, for oneself. The city is alive, the streets are alive, the protestors are alive and embodied—and they are all asking the question, ‘How do we care for each other when we live in institutions of violence?’

Bittering the Wound won the 2021 CAAPP Book Prize.

See the full list here!