Pecking Order by Nicole Homer

Nicole Homer’s Pecking Order takes apart the idea that home is ever separate from the world outside it.

These poems dig into race, motherhood, colorism, and family with fearless honesty. Moving between the intimate and the political, Homer explores the complicated realities of raising Black children, navigating multiracial families, and confronting the biases that can exist even within love. Pecking Order is a bold, deeply personal collection that challenges easy answers and asks us to look closer at the stories we tell ourselves about the domestic sphere.

Grab a copy of Pecking Order and reckon with the truth.

When I was weeks into the making
of a wanted thing
there was a night
when she felt the stab of the machine
bucking
and I felt, instead, a kick.

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Nicole Homer is a Professor of English at a community college in Central New Jersey. They are a poet, writer, and performer whose work can be found in the American Academy of Poets Poem-a-Day, Muzzle, The Offing, Rattle, The Collagist and elsewhere.