A peculiar people Poems

Steven Willis

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Genres
Poetry
Published
Minneapolis : Button Publishing Inc 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Steven Willis (author)
Physical Description
75 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781638340232
  • Section 1. Proverbs
  • In summer we sacrifice our boys to the sun
  • Big Mama Roots for Everybody Black when Watching Wheel Of Fortune
  • Hillary Clinton 2008
  • When My Income Tax Come
  • To be called Lil'
  • Hal.le.lu.jah
  • What to Do If This Happens
  • A Witness: Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Wishes for the rich
  • County Cousins
  • The Clean Up Woman Responds
  • Ode to the Boys Who Once Pushed Mixtapes
  • John 3:16 makes an appearance
  • Black Folk Don't Have Birthdays
  • The Hustle Speaks (monologue)
  • Things To Do with the Eviction Notice besides Leave
  • (East) Beverly Hills, Chicago
  • February at a White School
  • Ebonics 101
  • Exodus 20:12 KJV
  • Temperature Check
  • Section II. Black and Blue(s)
  • The Gangsta's Ghazal
  • The Baby Mamas (a scene).
  • A scolding for the brother, Dylann
  • COPAGANDA
  • Imagined Etymology #1
  • John Henry of Rustbelt (A Folklore)
  • The First Time A Man Attempts to Fight His Father (a Flash Fiction)
  • Comrade Brother Hampton Addresses The People
  • Ode to the Boys Who Die to Make Hip Hop Happen
  • The Legitimates' Villanelle
  • Momma says, "go wherever you want for college, just stay out of the south"
  • Imagined Etymology #9
  • HOWTHE HOOD LOVES YOU BACK
  • Imagined Etymology #12
  • Wallace Asks Why We Call It "The Pit" (a monologue)
  • An Honest Question
  • DOGGONE
  • Police as Pantoums #1 (Interrogation)
  • Police as Pantoums #27 (Traffic Stop)
  • Imagined Etymology #29
  • The dead unarmed Black man the police shot last week had a funeral today
  • Momma says we should pray before we leave for the protest
  • No Black Boys Die on Mother's Day
  • Imagined Etymology #18
  • About the Author