In Retrospect, It Was On Purpose.: An Anthology
In Retrospect, It Was On Purpose is a poetry anthology spanning nearly a decade of becoming.
Written between 2015 and 2025, this collection gathers past and present works that trace love, loss, lineage, and liberation through the voice of a Black Southern woman rooted in New Orleans. These poems move through intimacy and abandonment, devotion and disillusionment, spiritual inquiry and embodied healing, returning again and again to the questions that shape identity, purpose, and belonging.
Set against the cultural and ancestral landscape of New Orleans, the work honors the city not as metaphor but as living presence, holding its beauty, grief, rage, and resilience with equal reverence. The poems speak from bedrooms and bus rides, from kitchens and streets, from moments of softness, confrontation, motherhood, and self-reclamation.
The anthology concludes with new, unpublished work that reflects a quieter but firmer voice, one shaped by boundaries, sovereignty, and hard-earned clarity.
In Retrospect, It Was On Purpose is not a linear healing narrative, but a record of cycles: what breaks, what returns, and what remains. It is an offering for readers drawn to poetry that is intimate, culturally grounded, spiritually aware, and unapologetically human.
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