Bubble Gum Stadium Porsha Olayiwola Born in a Second Language

Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time

I find articulation of grief to be challenging because the machinery of grief never stops humming for those who are in the midst of it

and triumph through the lens of personal experience

author of Sidebend World and Ursula Lake

tactile environments and raw

Bubble Gum Stadium Porsha Olayiwola Born in a Second LanguageA home is made by the memories it holds, and in Bubble Gum Stadium, Jalen Eutsey makes us his house guests. Flush with the rich colors of South Florida, these poems immerse you in a history of a place and its people. Bubble Gum Stadium grips the reader with its immersive recollections and starkly beautiful language. Were given a scrapbook black community and coming of age, so lovingly rendered in the backdrop of West Perrine. Memory offered as a gift,