Tara Temprano Tara Temprano is a 47-year-old woman living in New Jersey as an educator of young children. Her experience with sexual assault spans a few circumstances and poetry has served her well as an outlet to address the assaults, harassment, and abuse that she endured in her twenties and thirties. The five poems selected have not been published in any way. Her substack, named “Poetry and Artifacts,” publishes poems weekly as well as “Artifact Journaling,” which combines

Sam Harty Sam Harty is a poet living near New Orleans. Her work explores love, loss, survival, and the healing  power of truth. She is also the author of Lost Love Volume I and  Volume II. Sam has been published in  several journals and anthologies and has just completed The Lost Little Series, a poetry collection about  reclaiming voice after sexual trauma. In her spare time, Sam volunteers at a Louisiana Trauma Nonprofit.  Sam Harty writes to breathe—and to help others do t