Newark native Kissie Banks crafts poetry where rhyme meets raw emotion. From her early days in high school writers' clubs to being featured in The Recorder, Kissie’s work—including her collection Last Notes—transforms the complexities of love, loss, and nature into sentimental melodies. A mother of two, she finds her greatest inspiration in sharing "bedtime poems" with her daughters, inviting readers into a world of vivid imagery and heart.

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Kissie Bank's poetry collection, Last Notes, offers something for everyone. It was is tapestry woven together from years of experience in many arenas. The book begins in public with " Crowded Streets but then moves increasingly inward. The second section includes the long, haunting "Peek and See," trying to find "beauty and life" in a strife-filled world. Section three focuses on relationships including "Lullaby for my Brown-Eye Girls." The following poems highlight elements of nature- blooms, stars. The last three sections center on love but in different dimension, first one-on-one love poems, then more intimate meditations, and finally a section that investigates belief and finding meaning, making meaning. Readers will find in these poems imagery and emotions easy to connect with.