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… 2009). He is a professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing at Washington University in St. … as well as several other poems you’ve published in journals this year, do not appear in your newest book, Speak Low … a quality you’ve cultivated? Or is this just what you do—a compulsion, perhaps—and you happen to finish poems …

… be shuffled—if it were sectioned into discrete events and recombined—would the story add up? Or does there need to be … evidence, remains of something that will later on be studied, pondered, and perhaps possessed: collecting as a form … Perhaps she felt harmjoy. I wonder if my childhood friend also thinks of this story whenever she crosses bridges …

… plundered and burned. Bands of brigands roamed as in the medieval Jacquerie, their victims dangling from tall trees. … verge of bankruptcy. Successive ministers of finance had come and gone as in a revolving door, their only recourse … the National Convention on the 8th of Thermidor (July 26th). It was sultry when the deputies assembled at 11 a.m. …

Regardless Once, my father took me to the Rockaways   during a hurricane to see how the ocean was behaving, which made my mother furious, whose love  was correct, protective. We saw a wooden jetty crumble. We saw water rise to the boardwalk, felt the …

… in which he predicted that Washington would “inevitably come to war with Japan over a carve up of the Pacific. This … aggressive policies “behind a smoke-screen of lofty ideals championing the rights of small nations,” there was not … course was aggressive or imperialistic.” When Sidney Gulick died in 1945 at age 85, he left, at best, an uncertain …