Some books take a long time to get written.
Minnie Bruce Pratt's fourth collection of poetry, Walking up Depot Street, has been 17 years in the making. In Walking up Depot Street, readers follow a woman named Beatrice from her home in the rural, segregated South to the industrial North. She talked with her mother, trying to understand and learn about herself and the history that was never taught. I was only taught the Civil War from the South's point of view. So she began to do research, finding narratives dating back to 1872, learning about the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in her town.