Mary Bowman [1988-2019] was a dynamic and beloved member of the
spoken-word poetry community in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. and beyond, and
an inspirational HIV activist.
“As a gay Black Christian woman who has lived with HIV since birth,
Bowman is a dandelion in a field of roses, and she embraces her
unique identity through poetry.” --Hunter Samuelson, Fourth
Estate, George Mason University, “Mary Bowman’s empowering
message for Mason Pride Week,”
April 7, 2016
[From
the publisher] “Emerge is a front-row seat to the
last 28 years of Mary Bowman’s journey through life, exploring her
relationship with love, pain, and triumph. It is an honest and raw,
first-and poetic account of what it means to emerge, to ride from an
inevitable death in order to freely live—sort of how a caterpillar
dies intentionally to both its title and cocoon, emerging the
butterfly that always was, always is, and always will be.”
