Record details

• ISBN: 9780063447523
• ISBN: 0063447525
• Physical Description: ix, 131 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
• Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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 didn'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 -- My contract with America (or is that America's contract on negroes?) -- Re: moveon's love letter to essential works -- Vote 2024 (it matters) -- Vines -- Some Christmas questions and one answer -- 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 University) -- 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 Mulvaney Street -- Bay leaves -- Edna Lewis: after hours in the watershed -- Detroit -- An angel like Ashley -- January 26, 2020 (the death of Kobe Bryant) -- Announcing spring (happy birthday Emma Joahanna Thomas-Smith) -- Avec vous -- Betty Willis Jacoby Skinner: 7 April 1925-31 July 2020 -- A toast to poems -- 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 mountains -- 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)

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African American women poets.
American poetry > Women authors.

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Literature.
Poetry.