Keisha-Gaye Anderson's debut poetry collection Gathering the Waters takes the reader on a powerful poetic journey. This collection is a quintessential woman's story, piecing together past, present and future in a melodious kaleidoscope of words. Her poet's voice is musical, enchanting and rhythmical, mesmerizing the reader page after page. Ultimately, Anderson's collection is both instructive and inspirational; when she shares her lyrical words of wisdom, we must listen.
 
JP Howard is a poet, educator, and curator. JP was a Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. Her debut poetry collection SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System) was a Lambda Literary finalist. JP has received fellowships from Cave Canem, VONA, and Lambda Literary Foundation. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon.
 
When I return to Gathering the Waters, after all these years, I fall right back into awe at Keisha-Gaye Anderson's gift as a poet. Buoyed by the wisdom tradition and song of Black Caribbean women, of African women, these verses are balm and joy, contemplation and laughter. We are blessed to engage them again, to hold this book anew, and to gather again in their light. Through Anderson's poetic waters we ascend, we reach ancestors, but equally important, we reach into ourselves.
 
Roberto Carlos Garcia, author of five books, most recently, Traveling Freely: Essays (Northwestern University Press 2024).