Cheryl Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. In "CHILDREN, IT IS TIME WE HAD THE TALK," the domestic is turned on its head, reimagined and deconstructed. Her explorations are manY--sometimes charming, sometimes grotesque, sometimes ghoulishly sexy. Often all at once. Maddalena's poetry is something you've never heard or read before--incisive, uncomfortable, biting, and beautiful. Cheryl Maddalena is an iconoclast of the first class, one of the most influential poets in the poetry slam movement, and perhaps its most original voice.
