'Every Hard Sweetness' Examines Trauma Inflicted by Institutional Racism

'Every Hard Sweetness' Examines Trauma Inflicted by Institutional Racism

“Every Hard Sweetness” Sheila Carter-Jones BOA Editions, $19 One sweltering evening last summer, in the back room of a Lawrenceville brewery, the poet Sheila Carter-Jones gave a particularly powerful reading. She introduced a selection of poems from her new book, “Every Hard Sweetness,” by telling the audience, “I’m from a small coal-mining town, and during the ’60s, my dad was beaten by cops and sent to a state hospital for the criminally insan…