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- Lolita Stewart-White's black frag/ments is a breathtaking series of narrative-lyric poems about the fragmentation of the black body, family, and community facilitated by the historically racist US healthcare system.After her husband's cancer diagnosis, Stewart-White finds herself haunted by the trauma Black Americans continue to face in medical settings.
- About the Author: Lolita Stewart-White is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker from Liberty City, Florida.
- 72 Pages
- Poetry, American
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Lolita Stewart-White's black frag/ments is a breathtaking series of narrative-lyric poems about the fragmentation of the black body, family, and community facilitated by the historically racist US healthcare system.
After her husband's cancer diagnosis, Stewart-White finds herself haunted by the trauma Black Americans continue to face in medical settings. These poems, both brazen and tenderhearted, explore enduring love in the face of grief and hardship while drawing parallels to past injustices. Stewart-White expertly weaves ancestral and present voices together, resulting in an intergenerational archive that centers one family's challenging journey in a broader context of how black people protest, repair, and revive.
About the Author
Lolita Stewart-White is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker from Liberty City, Florida. She is a Pushcart nominee and winner of the Paris American Series Prize. Her poetry has been featured in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, the Boston Review, and the African American Review. Her poem "Healing" was featured in the anthology This is the Honey, curated by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Stewart-White is an alumnus of Miami City Theatre's Homegrown Program, a playwriting development program that nurtures emerging BIPOC playwrights. She is a Cave Canem Fellows Fund Project Grantee for her play-in-verse, Liberty City Vignettes currently in development. Stewart-White has received fellowships from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, the Miami Light Project, and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Her films have been exhibited at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival, the Seattle Black Film Festival, and the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA).