Patricia Smith

Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered Tavern,

Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean

Incendiary Art

VOODOO V: ENEMY BE GONE

They Romp with Wooly Canines

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah

Medusa

Ethel’s Sestina

Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.

When the Burning Begins

When Black Men Drown Their Daughters

What You Pray Toward

Undertaker

Sweet Daddy

A Street in Lawndale

Siblings

Reemergence of the Noose

Prologue — And Then She Owns You

The President Flies Over

Nap Unleashed

Katrina

Hip-Hop Ghazal

Buried

Black, Poured Directly into the Wound

Always in the Head

10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine