I Know Her Name by Shanti Hershenson

This was a powerful collection about the effects of going to school and bullying as well as sexual assault. Jokes and Bathroom Stall were too harrowing yet bold poems about the reality of physical harm and threat and the anxiety it causes you to feel in the wake of the harm faced unable to escape it. What Do I Do? Again, was a strong poem imagining the authors future child in the situation she faced and in particular the pain to feel that you couldn't stop in happening in future alike the present and knowing how it effected you affects your future thoughts on reflection. A bold and necessary collection that depicts bullying at it's absolute worst, yet I'm so happy that, Shanti didn't let it hold her back from her dreams of being an author and instead has owned the pain to turn it into poetry and share to us to relate and reflect on.