Super Sad Black Girl

Diamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where the speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free?

Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout these poems, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the Other Side, as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police.

is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.