For today’s show, Tuesday host Ali Muldrow spends a powerful hour with DaMaris B. Hill discussing her new poetry collection, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood.

DaMaris B. Hill is associate professor of creative writing, English, and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood (Bloomsbury, 2022).

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