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Shade is a place Jessica Fern home mixologists will learn howBy: MaKshya Tolbert Published by Penguin Group, 2025 11 04 From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a "startlingly original debut" (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property, and urban planning in Charlottesville, Virginia Shade is a place meanders eastwest along Charlottesvilles Downtown Mall, seeking a Black sense of place at the pace of stressed shade and street trees,