{"product_id":"no-lace-fronts-in-iowa-city-poems-9781963695694","title":"No Lace Fronts in Iowa City: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e In her debut collection, \u003cem\u003eNo Lace Fronts in Iowa City\u003c\/em\u003e, Meghan Malachi explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. These poems celebrate a South Bronx childhood and navigate a complicated womanhood in the Midwest through confessional musings on Black Latinx identity and intimate epistolary interludes. Favorite wigs, main character moments, and reimagined anti-heroines are all vessels for exploring girlhood in this love letter to female kinship. \u003cem\u003eNo Lace Fronts in Iowa City\u003c\/em\u003e is ultimately a testament to the desires for belonging and tenderness that we all harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meghan Malachi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Madville Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963695694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalachi, Meghan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Meghan Malachi is a poet and writer from The Bronx, New York. She is an associate editor at RHINO. Her poetry collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, was selected by Allison Joseph as runner-up of Madville Publishing's 2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. She is the first-place winner of the Spoon River Poetry Review's 2022 Editor's Prize Contest and runner-up of the 2024 Princemere Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, The Autodidact, was published by Ethel Zine \u0026amp; Micro Press. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Meghan Malachi \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48752130031773,"sku":"9781963695694","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_eeb8e4f9-33ae-4484-ad7f-dca9b6f0d3ee.jpg?v=1785920271","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/no-lace-fronts-in-iowa-city-poems-9781963695694","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}