I became interested in Nikita Gill’s poetry when I read an excerpt from her poem “This is Not A Love Poem” and wanted to pick up the book that contained it; this is not that book. That book is The Girl and the Goddess, which I still have to pick up sometime. Thankfully I enjoy Gill’s poetry on the whole. I started out bitterly resenting that this was the wrong book because that meant I would have to buy another of her books; now I […]
“Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage. You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster that sleeps inside of you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.”
wild embers: poems of rebellion, fire, and beauty by Nikita Gill