E. A. Hughes

Oct 29, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | E. A. Hughes

A debut collection of lyric poems interrogating the generational implications of the Great Migration to Northern California. Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, a debut collection by E. Hughes, marries personal narrative with historical excavation to articulate the intricacies of Black familial love, life, and pain.

Sep 6, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | E. A. Hughes |Maya Marshall |Brionne Janae |Alexa Patrick

"Sorting through the wreckage of personal and collective history, Ankle-Deep In Pacific Water neutralizes what might otherwise haunt and destroy. Hughes does the work of all great poets: holds the truths of love and pain, letting both live in the light."—Kemi Alabi, author of Against Heaven "Hughes looks with clear-eyes at human frailty and failure, asks questions that lead readers to ponder their own archives of memory.

May 25, 2023 | therumpus.net | E. A. Hughes

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by E. Hughes Bulldaggers Between Starshine and ClayI want to fashion my black mouth to speak thisjourney of our bodies into utterance: Whatdoes one call this road between us? Once, a mancalled this road love.