Sagirah Shahid is a Black Muslim poet based in Minneapolis. She is a recipient of a Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series Award in poetry, a Minnesota Center for Book Arts Mentorship Award, and is a contributing author to the acclaimed collection: How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. When she isn't writing, Sagirah teaches poetry to children in an after-school arts program.
There were mornings when my mother could invent a song pluck it, like a whole peach bobbing from a branch. She’d fold in an improvised melody until her voice was yoked and in unison, the quick flicks of her wrist circumventing the rim of a wide bowl. That sweet batter, the promise of a future us kids salivated over. We… Read more →