Adelita Madrigal's debut collection, <i>My Shades of Green and Black</i> is ironically about throwing light on things most people get uncomfortable about. Issues in and out of a person whether it’s from a third-person perspective or from first hand experience. It’s about opening up and letting the shade show. It’s about how people unknowingly make others feel, whether it’s resentment, love, hate, suicidal, and many others shades in the spectrum of human emotions. Some may be offended, but that’s the beauty of poetry—it’s significant and true to the one that creates it. You can only wish to find someone out there that feels the same.