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Douglas Kearney Discusses the Page Versus Stage and other questions from The Black Automaton
I wanted to go back to the lab, and try to write poems that would demand the eye, demand a reader. And not only demand it, but reward it.
I’m not even going to lie to you; I want to be a poet people remember.
It is totally possible that one day I’m going to feel I’m sick of writing about black face and minstrel shows, and race, and I will write a poem about seeing my wife coming out of the swimming pool.. »
Prayer for My Fiancé before His Bachelor Party
Poetry by LaToya Jordan
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
However he be: drunk, sober, slipping strippers dollar bills, belligerent with a large group of men who look like him, I pray the Lord his soul to. »



