Aurore Gatwenzi’s Gold Pours is a poignant first collection. The readers will feel an immediate connection to Gatwenzi’s graceful reflections and introspection. This book is space to truly be. To exist inside of oneself. Through spiritual closeness to the body and beyond, there is dancing and movement that fills wounds with gold increasing the value of the most broken parts of us. This book is a guide to protecting and understanding the heart. Gold definitely pours from these pages because like the author says, “this body. this vessel she is mighty.”

–Chelene Knight author of award-winning Dear Current Occupant

In these unflinchingly intimate poems, Gatwenzi testifies on the intricacies of existence inside “brown skin like clay” offering us a lyrical snapshot of the Black, Female, Believer Poet as “Potter’s vessel / filled with authenticity”.

–Andrea Thompson, author of A Selected History of Soul Speak