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I Only Have Marmalade

I Only Have Marmalade

by M.G. Hughes

Echoing themes of healing, identity, race, feminism, and the environment I Only Have Marmalade is a poetry collection that seeks to answer the question: “What’s going on?” By reflecting on what it means to grow up both Black and the daughter of an immigrant, exploring complicated memories of her mental health journey, and assembling bittersweet paintings of the social and environmental climate she exists within, M. G. Hughes’ words offer a balm to anyone who has ever felt completely lost, unsure, or unwanted.

If you had the
choice, would you pick
today up from the ground?

If the hour was an apricot rotting from
the inside out, the flesh browning through and through, would you leave it to rot?

Or would you make marmalade?

I Only Have Marmalade

I Only Have Marmalade

by M.G. Hughes

Echoing themes of healing, identity, race, feminism, and the environment I Only Have Marmalade is a poetry collection that seeks to answer the question: “What’s going on?” By reflecting on what it means to grow up both Black and the daughter of an immigrant, exploring complicated memories of her mental health journey, and assembling bittersweet paintings of the social and environmental climate she exists within, M. G. Hughes’ words offer a balm to anyone who has ever felt completely lost, unsure, or unwanted.

If you had the
choice, would you pick
today up from the ground?

If the hour was an apricot rotting from
the inside out, the flesh browning through and through, would you leave it to rot?

Or would you make marmalade?

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101 Essays is available in:

African (Zulu, Twi, Fula, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kiswahili), Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Complex Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Germany, Greek, Hungarian, India, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Marathi (India), Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian , Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

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M.G. Hughes

M. G. Hughes is a Black and Filipino poet and novelist. Born and raised in Oceanside, California, her passion for creative writing and literature dates back to her early school days when her grandmother, an accomplished educator, encouraged her to read everything and write. Hughes resides in San Diego and recently graduated from Southern New Hampshire University. She earned her BA in Professional Writing and Communications and studied African-American History, African-American Literature, Studies in Poetry, and Contemporary Fiction. If she’s not writing, she’s probably watering her houseplants or walking her German Shepherd.

Books by M.G. Hughes