Darlene Anita Scott is the girl you met in the grocery store. She made you wanna say something to her. You did. And now you can't remember her name. But that wasn't really the important part of the meeting anyway. A poet, visual artist, and professor of composition and creative writing, she lives in Richmond, Virginia where even though she's too old to still play on the monkey bars, she does. Too young to remember Sam Cooke. But she listens to him anyway. Her first book, Marrow, will be released early in 2022.

Photo by Lechele Jackson

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