The Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States, Alora Young, tells the story of her family in verse “because Black girlhood is eternally laced with rhythm.” The poems in her debut Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse explore the lives of her matriarchs, going through the generations in a linear fashion. Young, a college student, was the youngest person ever to sign a book deal with Hogarth Books (a division of Random House) when she inked the deal for Walking Gentry Home. But her words reflect the wisdom of generations of women.
