When feelings find words that have long gone unnamed.

 

Isn’t that what all artists do? 

Tears that never flowed 

Fill the paint we use

 

Alina April Smith is right. Artists often pursue thoughts and feelings that belong to fictional characters. Yet with her, in particular, you feel a very intense, direct connection to her personality. That is what makes her poetry so special.

 

An extraordinary poetry debut for anyone who doesn’t seek words in poems, but rather themselves.