Graphite Format:Paperback Will the forced intimacy of

Will the forced intimacy of working on the play together help them figure things out or just make them worse

each desire

the neighbor she's been crushing on for weeks -- or lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to achieve her dreams

and Race Relations

Graphite Format:Paperback Will the forced intimacy ofPatricia Frazier's Graphite is an ode to her grandmother and childhood home, the Ida B. Wells Projects, both which the poet lost to city and state sanctioned discrimination. The chapbook investigates loss and gentrification, particularly their effects on black young people from Chicago, whose political movement, resilience, and ability to make celebration after pain, drive these poems.