Apr 4, 2021

Breonna Taylor Poems

By the end of the week, will have posted all 100 Sappho-inspired poems in honor of Ms. Taylor on Twitter. Posting here an especially...

Mar 13, 2021

Breonna Taylor Died Tonight

One year ago, they killed her. Here on this sorrowful anniversary is the foreword to my manuscript of poems in her honor, Breonna: Poems...

Jul 4, 2020

Hopeful Change in Richmond

On this July 4th, Richmond, VA, my home and birthplace, is a changed city. Restaurants, gyms, and barbershops shuttered for months...

Prose & Verse

Reading my Writing

The Birdman of Central Park - a story

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River Shadows - a poem

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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - a poem

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Reading from The Night Doctor of Richmond - Book People bookshop June 8, 2024

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A poem based on a photograph of kids at Fork Union Baptist Church Sunday School, 1960.

WPFW-FM On the Margin interview with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing The Night Doctor of Richmond