"Because I won't ever forget"

Poetry within trauma-informed literacies has been influential to understanding youth writing. As the tendency focus on individual rather than structures of power remains, authors this essay point collective resistance and connect writing other creative texts in their engagement black life, livingness, pedagogical possibilities. Specifically, they draw feminist theories methodologies consider race, gender, class, diaspora, time-space poetry juvenilia studies. The discussion concludes with questions about learning as counter-expressions.