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The love poems in Honeysuckle Me are odes to girlhood, the art of dance, romance, passion, the beauty of Black women and their historical resilience, and a reminder that privileged white male patriarchy and oppression are ultimately doomed to fail.

Stardust and Skin is a meditation on what can happen when a Black girl forgets the songs that had her stomping concrete, clapping and slapping hands in syncopation, and daring anybody to tell her to stop switching her hips and swinging her keys.

These Pearls Are Real is about love and liberation. This medley of poems exalts the joys of childhood, self-acceptance, falling in love, grappling with gun violence, cultural appropriation, police brutality, and the neglect of the mentally ill. This poetry collection is like a bouquet of potpourri. May you find rejuvenation within its cover.

Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup is a celebration and lamentation of womanhood, motherhood, teaching, identity, oppression and justice, loss and love, and Carla's attempt to grapple with challenges that run the gamut from Flint to fibroids with wit, humor, sensitivity, grace, and productive defiance.

This second edition of Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings published by ii Publishing is a collection covering a myriad of topics from jazz music to a moving tribute to loss of a loved one. Carla pours her heart into the pages of this debut poetry collection as she creates beauty in poetic form. Enjoy the journey of love, loss, pain, and joy from page to page.

Carla M. Cherry's fourth poetry collection is about love and liberation. This medley of poems exalts the joys of childhood, self-acceptance, and falling in love, and grapples with gun violence, cultural appropriation, police brutality, and the neglect of the mentally ill. Her epic poem, "A Daughter Speaks", is an homage to the courage of Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Therese Patricia Okoumou, and the ordinary people across various identities wh...

In these challenging times, we must celebrate who, what, and how we love with fervor. The poems in this chapbook strive to be sustenance and salve for the soul. Carla M. Cherry has been published in Anderbo, For Harriet, Obscura, Dissident Voice, Random Sample Review, Eunoia Review, Bop Dead City, MemoryHouse Magazine, Down in The Dirt, In Between Hangovers, Street Light Press, Picaroon Poetry, and Firefly Magazine. She has published two other...

Perhaps it is temerity to test my lyrical dexterity with this book of poetry about things that mean the world to me Spirituality Sexuality Aesthetic identity Women who lived audaciously Love, loss, and family Black history Black unity Pop culture's effrontery. I lend my voice to the cacophony because life is rife with tragedy yet brims with possibility. Carla M. Cherry is a mother and a teacher. Her work has appeared in anderbo.com, an online ...

The eighty-six poems in this collection are celebrations and lamentations about womanhood, motherhood, teaching, identity, oppression, justice, loss and love, and they attempt to grapple with challenges that run the gamut from Flint to fibroids with wit, humor, sensitivity, grace, and productive defiance.