The new black

My last modernist poem, #4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation)

Out with the old. my life as china ; from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ; celestial ; mesostics from the american grammar book ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen) ; her tin skin ; pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors) ; clare's song ; a sonnet for stanley tookie williams ; in a non-subjunctive mood ; where's carolina? ; x marks the spot ; received in spring ; the defense of marriage act, alternatives to ; dependencies ; him/body/meant, her/body/meant ; where you are planted ; a background in music ; ode to my blackness

The cold. to see the minus ; love life, with stitches ; riven ; never after ; a matter of balance ; on new year's eve ; the cold

Out with the new. owed to shirley chisholm ; bop for presidential politics, c. 2008 ; getting around utopia ; you can't deny it ; womanish ; duck, duck, redux ; because there should be love ; improper(ty) behavior ; at the musée de l'homme ; a question of survival ; soundtrack for a generational shift ; revisiting ; her table mountain ; notes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling) ; coming of age ; go-go tarot ; quiet as it's kept ; tonight i saw ; salty (extended play) ; explosives ; (mis)takes one to know one ; post-white

The fare-well letters. the fare-well letters ; dear ace bandage ; dear cuddly dharma ; dear existential fallacy ; dear gift horse ; dear ink jet ; dear kerosene lamp ; dear mid-afternoon nap ; dear opaque policy ; dear quaalude residue ; dear safety test ; dear untimely violet ; dear white xmas ; dear yesterday's zero.