Our Latest AJB Title: Shahid Reads His Own Palm
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In Meathead's Smile
A missing day is a story told by God
about something worse
than five young men flexing
in fresh white tees. They pose before
the commissary and none of them thinks
the name Snake or Pooh suggests bars
clanking behind them at night; even
Double Barrel started as nothing
but the explanation for Darnel Thomas’s
refusal to pass the ball. In Meathead’s smile
you can’t find one of the fifty-four years
bloody hands and a broken street in Richmond
left him. Men know this as they rustle
together and pull back sleeves to show
tattoos smeared by Vaseline and blood.
From Reginald Dwayne Betts' Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Alice James is pleased to announce that Idra Novey is a finalist for the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/08/2010-ruth-lilly-poetry-fellowship-finalists/
Three AJB Authors Receive Honorable Mentions for the
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
2010 Maine Literary Award!
Two AJB Authors win NAACP Image Awards!
Peter Waldor's Door to a Noisy Room is named a 2009 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist!
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