Welcome home, hon. CHARM(ed) chronicles Baltimore life and grapples with the idea of home and belonging. It also celebrates a city with deep roots, history, and culture—particularly the food. With the added element of photographs, this collection blends visual art and written word as part love letter, part critique of the goings-on in Charm City.

This poetry collection tells stories for those who can’t. Those who are scared. Those who are silenced. Those who need an extra push. black has every right to be angry evinces the notion that Black people—and Black women, especially—are angry, and that this anger is more than justified. Skillfully weaving bloody history lessons, the Black body as scientific experiment, and the contemporary world of police violence, systemic racism, and feminism into the narrative of modern society, Ashley Elizabeth’s gut-punching poems allow space for thought, remembrance, and reflection on the lives taken too soon and what we can do to fight the power.

.. the way loss is woven though red line is a testament to how grief weaves though our lives, and then in grief's transformative nature, a stark realization: "three hours later, student A is dead/and all I can think of instead of crying/is hugging the ones left." Every turn and angle grief reveals and guides, but so too does Ashley Elizabeth do that herself -- guiding and directing us into the heart of grief: love.