The new book: poems, letters, blurbs, and things

All I really have

Why I'm thankful

Yes

Won't you be my neighbor?

Fear: eat in or take out?

Toni Morrison

Waiting for Jason

For Scott

The longest way round

The sterling silver mirror (for DePaul University)

The coal cellar

The bus don't stop

Reading other people's poems

Vote (2020)

Raise your hand (in favor of immigrants)

Private secrets (like or no like)

March on Washington 10th anniversary

Look (something may be there)

A praise song for Roots by Alex Haley

M contract with America (or is that America's contract on negroes?)

Re: moveon's love letter to ssential workers

Vote 2024 (it matters)

Vines

Some Chrsitmas questions and one ansawer

The nature conservancy

A keynote address

Serena

Girl talk (lyrics)

Floating

The three riders

The train ride

My first visit with Ashley

Little brother/big brother (for Morris and David)

Mating time (for a lonely meteorite looking for love)

Some complain

When water could not encourage you

For the 2023 graduates of Roanoke College

Answers

Introducing Knoxville (for Bill Walsh and Reinhardt Universiy)

A blues for mother

A friendship (re: breaking rules)

Tomorrow

Her dreams

Altars

Home (for Beauford Delaney)

Letter to the editor

Graduation poem

A dedication

Fall in love (for Artemis)

1038 burns

400 Malvaney Street

Bay leaves

Edna Lewis: afte rhours in the watershed

Detroit

An angel like Ashley

January 26, 2020 (the death of Kobe Bryant)

Announcing spring (happy birthday Emma Joahanne Thomas-Smith)

Avec vous

Betty Wills Jacoby Skinner: 7 April 1925-31 July 2020

A toast to peoms

Commencement during Covid

Craft

A recipe for the New York Times (sent to Elizabeth A. Harris)

The Christmas letter

21 May 2020

Fisk: a song of freedom

Cotton in the arms of the mountians

Where was the music

Kevin Powell 2020

Ten descriptions of me (for Mark Koplik)

Prose to the people

Poems (for the Blacksburg Books Community Project)

We have prevailed

Winter homes

Fathers (for twg).