Franklin, Yolanda J.: Blood Vinyls

Anhinga, paperback

Publication Date: July 10, 2018

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The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately and with such knowing - an edgy discography of Florida and the contentions of gender and race in the South. Franklin understands like Zora Neale Hurston how to pen intimate narratives that reveal a distinctive aspect of southern history and its customs stemming from the legacies of slavery and beyond.

Yolanda J. Franklin is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, a recipient of a 2016-2017 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship, and a Kingsbury writing award. Franklin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Florida Agricultural  Mechanical University. Her poems appear in the current issue or are forthcoming in the following journals: Hayden's Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review and the Apalachee Review. Her poetry also appears in the recent anthology "It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop" and is a two-time recipient of a J.M. Shaw Academy of American Poets Award. Franklin is a third generation Floridian born in the state's capital - Tallahassee. She loves dancing to old school hip-hop, baking, food tasting and can be found at her favorite coffee shop, Black Dog Café in Railroad Square enjoying a drink the baristas named after her.