Reclaiming Personal Space
E’mon Lauren
April 28, 2020
Reclamation inspired by Alessia Cara and Fatimah Asghar
Source Material:
- “Here” by Alessia Cara
- “When Tip Drill Comes on at the Frat Party or When Refusing to Twerk Is a Radical Form of Self-Love” by Fatimah Asghar
Prompt: Write a poem about you reclaiming your personal space.
E’mon Lauren
E’mon Lauren is a blk queer Scorpio, from the Wes and Souf side of Chicago, whose work unpacks her coined philosophy of “hood-womanism”. She was named Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate. She has been featured in Vogue Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune. Her work has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic, and elsewhere. She is a member of Young Chicago Authors Teaching Artist Corps and host of her new podcast, “The RealHoodwives of Chicago”. Her first chapbook of poems, COMMANDO, was published by Haymarket Books, Fall of 2017.