Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS - Poetry Unbound

In “ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS,” Amber McBride treats us to a playful litany of language that twists and leaps and never stumbles. Flavored with old-time Christianity, old-time hoodoo, and a modern alchemy all her own, it talks back to prejudice, reclaims the words meant to take people down, and forges new identities that shimmer with strength and strangeness. Amber McBride is an English professor at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several books, including the forthcoming poetry collection, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/amber-mcbride-roll-call-new-tarot-names-for-black-girls/#media" target="_blank">Thick with Trouble</a> (Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2024). Her debut young adult novel, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/amber-mcbride-roll-call-new-tarot-names-for-black-girls/#media" target="_blank">Me (Moth)</a> (Square Fish/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, 2023) was a finalist for the National Book...