No Lace Fronts in Iowa City: poems

In her debut collection, No Lace Fronts in Iowa City, Meghan Malachi explores how community, desirability, and notions of home influence the journeys by which girls come of age. These poems celebrate a South Bronx childhood and navigate a complicated womanhood in the Midwest through confessional musings on Black Latinx identity and intimate epistolary interludes. Favorite wigs, main character moments, and reimagined anti-heroines are all vessels for exploring girlhood in this love letter to female kinship. No Lace Fronts in Iowa City is ultimately a testament to the desires for belonging and tenderness that we all harbor.

Author: Meghan Malachi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Madville Publishing LLC
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781963695694