Making A Pledge, Finding Your Joy

About the Book

This richly annotated volume of just 16 poems marks her own journey as a writer who claiming her poetic as a voice as a mother. In candid conversation with the reader, she chooses the epistle weaving memory and inquiry as the craft of finding your own voice. Experience this book as an extended meditation and musing of the decision a woman makes in community as she locates her tribe in invitation to make a pledge to nurse her baby for 365 days.  In this second volume; the author of Urban Wild Life: A Collection of poems for the Autumn of 2020 courageously shares both process and passion establishing relationship as foundational to love; she offers her self as a holy listener and scribe. We are treated to an incredible invitation to the inherent power of choice in making a pledge simply for the joy.

About the Author

Jacqueline Lois (nee Strachan) is a native New Yorker. Born on 135th Street in Harlem in 1954. As archivist, elevating the experience of Black women who heal the harm perpetrated by the forced separations of families.

Venerating her ancestors she boldly calls forth their guidance. Jacqueline holds a BA in American Civilization and Psychology from Williams College; a Masters in Counseling from Howard University as well as a degree in Nursing from Montgomery College. With a Certificate in Nurse Midwifery from the University of Dentistry’s School of Health-Related Professions and early credentialing as the first wave of Lactation Consultants, she treasures most what she learned in nursing her two children. A life well lived but not over. She joins the womanist tradition of the 21 first century African American narrative taking her place as a global citizen as she uncovers the complexity of motherhood throughout the African diaspora.