Zero To Three (The Cave Canem Poetry Prize)
Poems by F. Douglas Brown
Selected by Tracy K. Smith
Poems on the early life and development of a child, and how parents themselves are altered throughout these stages.
My Words:
Urgent Care: the necessity of brotherhood & poetry, The Operating System and Liminal Lab
Aubade with Edits, Academy of American Poets
The Craft of Poetry: Poets in Response to the work of Moffat Takadiwa, Craft Contemporary Museum
Jacob Lawrence Ekphrasis: Frederick Douglass/Harriet Tubman Series: Douglass Panel 32: Ghazal Between Icons: An Imagined Conversation; Tubman Panel 29: Pieta Ghazal: Harriet Tubman Mourns for Freddie Gray, Angel's Flight Literary West
We Invent: We, Entropy Magazine, online literary and non-literary communal space. I was honored to be the January 2017 guest poet courtesy of Terry Wolverton's collaborative Dis*articulation series. You can see the entire collaboration, and follow Terry's entire series here.
A Poem My Mother Doesn't Want Right Now, gratitude to Vinyl Poetry to be selected as their Poem of the Week.
3 Poems, Chaparral, an online journal featuring poetry from Southern California
Variations of a River: a golden shovel for Ferguson, The Southern Humanities Review
Epistemology of Laundry, Academy of American Poets
Towards Desert, then Forest, The Silent Parade: a collaboration with Jimena Sarno; audio track 6
Jacob Lawrence Ekphrasis: Frederick Douglass Series Panel 1: February 1818; Panel 3: The Flogging; Panel 30: Face to Face-Lawrence and the Douglass Death Mask, The Virginia Quarterly (VQR)
Jacob Lawrence Ekphrasis: Frederick Douglass Series Panel 2: Darkness, My Mother, Bat City Review
Hard Uncles, The Virginia Quarterly (VQR)
Jacob Lawrence Ekphrasis: Frederick Douglass Series Panel 15 – Free Hymns, Toe Good Poetry
Brown Water Blues, CURA Magazine
The Talk, Muzzle Magazine
How to Tell My Dad that I Kissed a Man, Muzzle Magazine
The Skin of Skin, Transfer Magazine: Transfer 78