Malaika King Albrecht’s fifth poetry collection, The Long Apprenticeship, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag and is now available for preorder.
North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green writes: The Long Apprenticeship captures so much that is often ungraspable. This collection praises the sublime and connects soul to soul by expansive imaginative verse. Malaika King Albrecht ushers in the broom sweeping a path home as self-portrait, myth, and unbridled truth… “if it’s hard to sing with a piece of the universe caught in your throat… you can hum.” The Long Apprenticeship explores the wilderness of the soul, conscious memory, the spirit as pilgrim, as well as erasure and chronicles of bewilderment and uncertainty. These poems are a vibrant invitation to interior spaces rooted in celebration, prayer, and the wonderment of endurance.
Learn more, read sample poems, or preorder the collection here:
The Long Apprenticeship by Malaika King Albrecht
Poetry Society of Virginia 