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The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin)
The Big Smoke (Poets, Penguin) Adrian Matejka 9780143123729 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the Nationa...
African American Review
African American Review Troy Johnson Article AAR African American Review - http://aar.slu.edu Office of Editorial Assistant Joe Weixlmann EditorHousto...
The Last Poets
The Last Poets 0000000109403584 The Last Poets, formed in 1969, are influential street poets who gained fame with their debut LP in 1970, reaching the U.S. Top 10 album charts. Members include Abiodu...
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617755408 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short...
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission DuEwa M. Frazier Article Before hip hop pioneers like the Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel or Run DMC, there was The Last Poets. Called the "...
NOMMO
NOMMO NONE "NOMMO Lyrical Alchemy Volume One is a collaborative project featuring original artists like Erykah Badu. It's the first in a series aimed at presenting artistic expression and cultural el...
Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka 0000000037525872 Adrian Matejka is a Germany-born, Indiana-based author and educator. A graduate of Indiana University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he has penned award-...
New-Generation African Poets (TANO): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TANO): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617756238 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Critical Praise for the Previous Chapbook Box Sets:“An ambitiou...
All the Smoke: All the Stars, All the Stories, No Apologies
All the Smoke: All the Stars, All the Stories, No Apologies Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson 9781668048139 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. An in-depth and fresh cel...
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue Adrian Miller 9781469662800 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Across America, the pure l...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617758164 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the ...
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later Russell Atkins 9781681210292 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures The Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the mid to late ...
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland Russell Atkins 9781681210315 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures This is the very first anthology by the Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the ...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and b...
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142418 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books This 11-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Boo...
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall 9781608463954 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Hip-Hop is the largest youth cul...
Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews With Anglophone Caribbean Poets
Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews With Anglophone Caribbean Poets Kwame Dawes 9780813919461 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Before the Caribbean-inflected spoken-word poet...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
All the Smoke
All the Smoke Aaron Philip Clark 9780063451605 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Wu-Tang Clan: An American Saga in this gripping psychological thriller about ambition, betray...
Blue Smoke Rises
Blue Smoke Rises Damone Bester 9781611884272 Fiction Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold Blue Smoke Rises is the thrilling sequel to the coming-of-age story Mendel, set in the mid-1980s on Chicago’s Sou...
Sabotage 2: How to Handle a Commit-A-Phobe (Its All Smoke and Mirrors) (Volume 2)
Sabotage 2: How to Handle a Commit-A-Phobe (Its All Smoke and Mirrors) (Volume 2) Johanna Sparrow 9781523829316 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Commitment phobes are not easy human bei...
Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson
Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson MULTIPLE Matt Barnes scrapped and clawed his way through fourteen NBA seasons, which included a championship in 2017 with the Golden State Warriors. He is a father of...
The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event
The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event 2026 Note: This is a file I never quite finished ;-) , Toni Asante Lightfoot,...
aja monet
aja monet 0000000370068724 aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title i...
Minor Notes, Volume 1
Minor Notes, Volume 1 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137269 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
Busboys & Poets BEA Party
Busboys & Poets BEA Party Busboys & Poets BEA Party Exhibitors Journal 2006 Special AALBC.com Promotion African American Pavilion C&B Books Sponsoring Authors "New Title" Showcase Parti...
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Kwame Alexander 9780316417525 Poetry Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heri...
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140766 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The beautifully packaged, limited Edition Box Set was a an African P...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617757174 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to...
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds 9781608468577 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books "[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diver...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse By Black Poets Of The Twenties
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse By Black Poets Of The Twenties Countee Cullen 9780806513492 Poetry Citadel Press Kensington Publishing Corp. This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Schedule of Events
Schedule of Events Schedule of Events The New Jersey Performing Arts Center SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SACRED CIRCLE/SPOKEN WORD A Three-Day Festival and Conference October 29-31, 1999 Friday, Octob...
African Amer. Images
African Amer. Images Troy Johnson Article http://www.africanamericanimages.com/ African American Images 1909 W 95th Street Chicago IL. 60643 1-800-552-1991 fax 773-445-9844 President, D...
The Black Poets
The Black Poets Dudley Randall 9780553275636 Poetry Bantam Penguin Random House "The claim of The Black Poets to being… an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, fro...
Big Bank Take Little Bank: New Cafe Poets, No.1
Big Bank Take Little Bank: New Cafe Poets, No.1 Paul Beatty 9780962784279 Poetry Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Book by Beatty, Paul
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks 9781250359933 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers A girl determined to clear her brother’s name. A boy determined to keep his out of the line of fire. A sec...
Minor Notes, Volume 2
Minor Notes, Volume 2 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137276 Poetry Penguin Classics Penguin Random House The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
Poets Pay Rent, Too
Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press Nuyorican Poets Cafe Nuyorican Poets Cafe Press
Poets Pay Rent, Too
Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC Brian Gilmore 9781647126551 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown University Press A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, r...
This Is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets
This Is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets Traci N. Todd 9798887772042 Poetry Nosy Crow Nosy Crow A beautiful, bold collection of more than 100 dazzling poems by Black poets for the whole family ...
Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry
Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry Kadija Sesay 9781845234263 Poetry INSCRIBE Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Filigree typically refers to the finer elements of craftwork, the parts that are subtle; o...
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Camille T. Dungy 9780820332772 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Black Nature is the first anthology to focu...
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry)
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry) Elizabeth Alexander 9780472069378 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press A volume in the Poets on Poe...
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Cheryl Clarke 9780813534053 Poetry Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies ha...
Anne Spencer: "Ah, how poets sing and die!"
Anne Spencer: "Ah, how poets sing and die!" Anne Spencer 9781890306373 Poetry Salmon Salmon The title “Ah, how poets sing and die!” is likely a poetic reference to the work of Anne Spencer, a signific...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair 9780393093575 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry is a significa...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones 0000000031494569 Patricia Spears Jones, born in Arkansas, is the 2024 New York State Poet Laureate, a Jackson Poetry Prize laureate, and a cultural activist. An esteemed poet, p...
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! Tara Betts Article More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it&rsq...
Smoke & Shadow Books
Smoke & Shadow Books Cleveland Writers Press Cleveland Writers Press
Stackin’ Paper Part 7: Who Want Smoke…
Stackin’ Paper Part 7: Who Want Smoke… Joy Deja King 9781942217855 Fiction King Productions King Productions Genesis is embroiled in an all-out war with Maverick after mourning the loss of Nico Carter...
White Smoke
White Smoke Tiffany D. Jackson 9780063029095 Fiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the clas...
Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke & Mirrors KR Bankston 9781450728249 Fiction Kirabaco Publishing Kirabaco Publishing Dezi Gianni has spent twenty plus years rebuilding his empire, becoming even more powerful than he’d been befo...
The Saving Work
The Saving Work Tiphanie Yanique 9781888553239 Fiction Kore Press Kore Press Short story chapbook, laser printed and hand assembled with unique burn mark on cover. This is the first in a series of sho...
Dating Games: A Novel
Dating Games: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9780743464802 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Though both gorgeous, the two Rodgers sisters couldn’t be more different. Hennesey, a brilliant straigh...
Ornate With Smoke
Ornate With Smoke Sterling D. Plumpp 9780883781982 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Poetry that comes out of the jazz music of African American artists.
Big
Big Vashti Harrison 9780316353229 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award“Measuring almost 12 by 10 inches this ‘big’ children’s boo...
One Big Day
One Big Day Anne Wynter 9780062934932 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins One Big Day is a board book celebration of that very special day—a baby’s first birthday. The perfect gift for babi...
Mogul: A Novel
Mogul: A Novel Terrance Dean 9781451611922 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider—a juicy debut novel about th...
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Jacqueline Jones LaMon Kam Williams Interview Jaci LaMon JaciWrites@aol.com Jacqueline Jones LaMon is a poet and writer. Her work has appeared in various publications inclu...
Black Orchid Lit. Agency
Black Orchid Lit. Agency Troy Johnson Article Black Orchid Literary Agency http://www.flashtech.net/bola/ 820 Lamar Street Cleveland, TX 77327 William E. Wright, President &...
Gifted Voices
Gifted Voices Troy Johnson Article Gifted Voices is a nationally distributed, monthly publication whose sole purpose is to promote the literary talents of emerging and established African Ame...
Big Words
Big Words Kam Williams big-words-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Rap Group Reunites on 2008 Election Day in Dream Deferred Drama Big Words In Theaters: Jul 19, 2013 Limited Unrated Running time: 94 ...
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf 2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf The Detroit Writer?s Guild in partnership with the University of Detroit Mercy proudly announce the 2002 Midwest Poets & Wr...
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up Remica Bingham-Risher 9780807015926 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a ...
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781681199443 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a...
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry)
Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) Yusef Komunyakaa 9780472073443 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Condition Red collects writing by ...
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets Kwame Alexander 9780763680947 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have...
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry Catherine Clinton 9780544582569 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Powerful and diverse, this unique collection of African American...
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes 9781617753558 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "The chapbooks gathered here are almost overflowing with voice….Each of these chapbo...
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique 9781936797400 Poetry Tupelo Press, Inc. Tupelo Press, Inc. Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Inst...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology) Nikky Finney 9780820329260 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press The South: to render all that it means to an Af...
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905238 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding...
Living in Babylon: Poems and Performances
Living in Babylon: Poems and Performances Esther Iverem 9781592214105 Poetry Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Esther Iverem’s new collection of poems is a wide-ranging meditat...
Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s National Poetry Slam Champions
Burning Down the House: Selected Poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s National Poetry Slam Champions Roger Bonair-Agard, Stephen Colman, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Alix Olson and Lynne Procope 978188712...
New World of Words: Black Writers and poets spin tales of imagination and reality from Detroit to the world
New World of Words: Black Writers and poets spin tales of imagination and reality from Detroit to the world Renee Prewitt Killingsworth Article Originally featured in Detroit’s Cityview News...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival
Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival Miguel Algarin 9781417719655 Poetry San Val San Val From New York’s hottest showcase for new poets, playwrights, and performers comes a dynamic collec...
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Miguel Algarin 9780805032574 Poetry Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Compiled by poets who have been at the center of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New Yo...
Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan
Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan MULTIPLE The Last Poets are a group of musicians and poets, known for their African-American-themed performances that blend jazz, rhythm, and spoken words. Their i...
Courtney Faye Taylor
Courtney Faye Taylor NONE Courtney Faye Taylor is a celebrated writer and visual artist, known for winning the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work i...
Abiodun Oyewole
Abiodun Oyewole NONE Abiodun Oyewole is a pioneering poet, teacher, and founding member of the influential American music and spoken-word group, The Last Poets. With a rich contribution to Hip-Hop's ...
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady 0000000025783225 Cornelius Eady is a renowned poet and author of eight books, including award-winning “Victims of the Latest Dance Craze.” He co-founded the Cave Canem workshop for Afr...
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths 0000000527846142 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, a poet, photographer, and creative writing teacher, is renowned for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. She...
Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds
Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds MULTIPLE Jamila Woods, a Chicago-based poet influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, explores themes of blackness and womanhood. Maho...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Loading 360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 &...
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Big Black: Stand at Attica Frank Smith 9781684154791 Nonfiction Archaia BOOM! Studios A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion ag...
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry Terrance Hayes 9780143137733 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the National Book Award–winning aut...
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems Warsan Shire 9780593134351 Poetry Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from ...
Map to the Stars
Map to the Stars Adrian Matejka 9780143130574 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer ...
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin)
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin) Willie Perdomo 9780143125235 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for PoetryThrough dream so...
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin) Terrance Hayes 9780143116967 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryIn his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigate...