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Poetry collection by Keisha-Gaye Anderson. Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, author, and visual artist based in Brooklyn.

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Keisha-Gaye Anderson's debut poetry collection Gathering the Waters takes the reader on a powerful poetic journey. This collection is a quintessential woman's story, piecing together past, present and future in a melodious kaleidoscope of words. Her poet's voice is musical, enchanting and rhythmical, mesmerizing the reader page after page. Ultimately, Anderson's collection is both instructive and inspirational; when she shares her lyrical words of wisdom, we must listen. JP Howard is a poet, educator, and curator. JP was a Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. Her debut poetry collection SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System) was a Lambda Literary finalist. JP has received fellowships from Cave Canem, VONA, and Lambda Literary Foundation. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. When I return to Gathering the Waters, after all these years, I fall right back into awe at Keisha-Gaye Anderson's gift as a poet. Buoyed by the wisdom tradition and song of Black Caribbean women, of African women, these verses are balm and joy, contemplation and laughter. We are blessed to engage them again, to hold this book anew, and to gather again in their light. Through Anderson's poetic waters we ascend, we reach ancestors, but equally important, we reach into ourselves. Roberto Carlos Garcia, author of five books, most recently, Traveling Freely: Essays (Northwestern University Press 2024).

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Keisha-Gaye Anderson is an award-winning Jamaican-born poet, writer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her other poetry collections include Everything Is Necessary (Willow Books 2019) and A Spell for Living (Agape Editions 2020), which received Agape Editions' Editors Choice Award and BIBA (Best Indie Book) Award in 2024. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have been widely anthologized, appearing in Caribbean Writer, Black Fire This Time (volumes I and II), African Voices, Kweli, Langston Hughes Review, Peregrine Journal, Mom Egg Review, and others. Keisha has appeared as a featured poet at Dodge Poetry Festival, Brooklyn Museum, NY Historical Society, and elsewhere. Her art has been featured in multiple exhibitions at venues like Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn Public Library, Five Myles Gallery, Restoration Plaza, Billie Holiday Theater, and Carter Burden Gallery. Keisha is also an educator and workshop leader at The City University of New York, Poets House, and other organizations. She has received grants and/or fellowships from the NY Council on the Arts, NY Foundation for the Arts, and The Laundromat Project. She holds a B.A. from Syracuse University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from The City College, CUNY. Learn more about her at www.keishagaye.ink.

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