Kimberly Yankson

Kimberly Yankson, a senior at Rockville High School, is a returning apprentice at the Nook Farm Writers Collaborative. Her work has been published in the Poetry Ourselves anthology, the Write On, Black Girl magazine, and the Connecticut Student Writers magazine where she earned a platinum award. Moreover, she was a featured reader at Arts Center East’s Black History event. Kimberly finds inspiration through music and her life’s experiences. When she is not writing poetry or fiction, she likes to dance, sing, act, and dabble in songwriting.

Poetry

Ye Frog He Would A Wooing Go

By Kimberly Yankson | August 3, 2023

felines on the walls leer

Poetry

white and green bubbles on a lake

Live on the Lake

By Kimberly Yankson | August 2, 2023

Ice cream set aside on a park bench.

Poetry

Red spider lily

I Will Await the Arrival of Death, Even If I Refuse It

By Kimberly Yankson | August 2, 2023

glass will shatter in due time—

Poetry

Painting of yellow and pink ballerinas by Edgar Degas

La Danse des Fleurs

By Kimberly Yankson | August 1, 2023

the thorns dig into their toes

Nonfiction

Daddy’s Fault

By Kimberly Yankson | August 2, 2022

You promised me you would get better, and I really was a fool for believing you.

Poetry

acrylic decalcomania painting, abstract. From top to bottom, the colors are a light sky blue with a swath of white cutting through the center, a dark, bright pink which bleeds into the blue above, and a golden honey-yellow with warm brown dark values giving the impressions of feathers at the bottom.

Decalcomania

By Kimberly Yankson | August 1, 2022

One could only hope to take their preconceived canvas and transfer it over to a glass.