![]() On Tuesday night, she finally published a tweet with a link to “Lemonade” and the note “yosra i hope you’re proud of us.” Yosra El-Essawy, a friend of Ms. She did not promote “Lemonade” or even tease its existence on social media. In the days after her work was proclaimed by one of the world’s most influential black female artists, Ms. Her first full poetry collection, “Extreme Girlhood,” is expected in the next year or so. In 2014, she was appointed the first Young Poet Laureate of London. ![]() Shire has published chapbooks of poetry - including “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” in 2011 and “Her Blue Body” in 2015 - but much of her reputation was built online by publishing on Tumblr and using Twitter like an open notebook. ![]() ![]() And her international following, captivated by her quiet charisma and compulsively shareable lines, may be as devoted as the Beyhive. Shire with “film adaptation and poetry,” may catapult her to a new level of pop-culture fame, but she is already known to many as a compelling voice on black womanhood and the African diaspora - one particularly resonant in the digital age. ![]()
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