mahayla laurence
Description: KB is a Black queer and trans poet, essayist, and cultural worker based in Austin, TX. KB is the author of Freedom House (published by Deep Vellum).
Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.
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In this debut full-length collection, award-winning writer KB Brookins ’ formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while walking readers through different “rooms”. The speaker isn’t afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more — all while using humor and craft.
mahayla laurence