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Ohio Railroads Ohio Railroads is a long poem—in essay form—with origins in the author’s memory of a dream of his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ohio Railroads is an attempt to explore the particular weight of the dream and, in so doing, account for some of the measurement of the accessible world. The place of exploration is both the several neighborhoods that comprise black Dayton (neighborhoods cut into big triang.... | |
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Prairie Style Prairie Style is about the breakdown of location and voice. It lays out a landscape of habitations (Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for "servantless families," fox dens in an embankment, the two-mile long face of Chicago's Robert Taylor public housing project, etc.) and crosses and recrosses the line between poetry and prose. The book is an acknowledgement of the "terrible frankness" of color, pleas.... |
Forthcoming book--2019, Dalkey Archive Press--is Similarly, four poetry volumes and a selection of new poems. Most recent books are Border Towns (2016, essays having to do wth poetry) and Overlapping Apexes (2017, a long poem). Earlier books include Prairie Style (2008), Into and Out of Dislocation (2000), Giscome Road (1998), etc. Poetry and prose reprinted in Best American Poetry, Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Bluesprint: Black British Columbia Literature and Orature, and elsewhere.
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
143N/1 | Prose Nonfiction |
Creative Writing Workshops |
166/4 | Special Topics: Poetry and Prose of Race and Social Class |
Special Topics |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
141/1 | Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses |
243B/1 | Poetry Writing Workshop |
Creative Writing Workshops |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
166/4 | Special Topics: Writing Poetry and Nonfiction, Writing as Social Practice |
Creative Writing Workshops Creative Writing Lecture Courses Special Topics |
Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
141/1 | Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, etc.) |
Creative Writing Lecture Courses |