In 2017, Rita Banerjee served as the contest judge for Minerva Rising’s “Dare to Speak” Poetry Chapbook competition. She selected Rebecca Connors‘s chapbook Split Map as the winner of the competition. Split Map has been recently published by Minerva Rising in May 2019, and of the chapbook, Banerjee writes:
“Split Map is more than a collection of poems about coming-of-age, nostalgia, or childlike wonder, it is a journey through vulnerability into self-empowerment, and a story about how even in the most difficult of situations, female agency exists and reverberates, and how all women can dare to split maps, and thus, transform the world.”
— Rita Banerjee, author of Echo in Four Beats and CREDO, and Director, MFA in Writing & Publishing, Vermont College of Fine Arts
To order Rebecca Connors‘s Split Map, please visit Minerva Rising here.
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