Tatyana White-Jenkins

How to Bloom Tatyana White-Jenkins

How to Bloom is a collection of poems about the enthralling, complex, grueling, and beautiful journey of growth.


Starting with a crumbled sticky note filled with deep emotions strung into a series of sentences she wasn't sure what to call, Tatyana White-Jenkins chronicled her journey of unexpected growth and transformation. Feeling lost and uncertain of her direction, she turned to her first love: writing. But her writing had never taken this form before. As she was struggling to find herself, poetry found her. Line by line, Tatyana documented her growing pains by diving into her past grievances, present emotions, and changing aspirations for her future. She never imagined herself writing poems, let alone an entire collection of them.

But sometimes things bloom unexpectedly.

This collection is three years in the making. You'll find her first poems sitting beautifully beside her most recent. The first poem in this collection is the first poem she scribbled on that sticky note in this season of change. She found it pertinent that in a book about growth, every part of the journey was honored. The moments, words, and reveries she's grown out of, the ones that still hold true, and the ones she's still trying to understand.

How to Bloom hopes to bring comfort in your everchanging journey of blooming into who you were always meant to be.