Prewriting:
- people/folks that you honor/cherish everyday or in memory
- some talents/hobbies/skills they are known for
- some lessons they have taught you
- some things you didn’t get the chance to learn from they or haven’t learned just yet
Source Material:
Prompt: Write a grace to someone or the folks you cherish in your life.
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.