Forgiveness,
an evolution
Apology
is
revolution
Acknowledgment
does not redeem
but embodies
growth maturity understanding
re cog nition
known
see again
grant permission
now better now now now
the denied
arrival
has landed
disembark
Akua Lezli Hope is a creator who uses sound, words, fiber, glass, and metal, to create poems, patterns, stories, music, ornaments, wearables, jewelry, adornments and peace whenever possible. A third generation Caribbean American, New Yorker and firstborn, she has won fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ragdale, Hurston Wright writers, and the National Endowment for The Arts. She is a Cave Canem fellow. Her manuscript, Them Gone, won Red Paint Hill Publishing’s Editor’s Prize and will be published in 2016.