About the Book: Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and
Meditations?Black Christian Poetry for Healing, Renewal, and Navigating Grief
The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and
prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and
touching the divine—the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad
and Moore Black Press.
At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was
suddenly upended. "I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world., " she
recalls. "I even stopped praying, but I began to write. Poetry became my way