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Adrian S. Potter has won several writing awards, including the 2007 Saturday Writers One-Page Poem Contest and the 2006 Cervena Barva Press Fiction Chapbook Prize. He has been published in more than 80 different literary journals, magazines, and websites, including Colere, City Works, Reed, Loop, Out of Line, The Binnacle, Blue Earth Review and Poesia.

His first short fiction chapbook, Survival Notes, is now available through Cervena Barva Press.

He is currently working on several projects, including a poetry manuscript tentatively titled the truth handbook.  He is also searching for a publisher willing to take a chance on his recently finished poetry manuscript called My Own Brand of Blues.

He can be reached at aplus3@gmail.com.

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Brothers in Verse: Five Essays on Black Masculinity in American Poetry

DateFriday, September 5, 2008 at 03:36PM

I stumbled upon this on the web and found all five of these essays to be amazing.  I figured that some other African-American poets (and maybe poets of other races, too) may find these to be interesting reads, so I am sharing.  Enjoy.

Brothers in Verse: Five Essays on Black Masculinity in American Poetry
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/index.html

To Make a Man - Camille Dungy
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/man.html

Meditation on a Black Male Poetic - Tyehimba Jess
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/meditation.html

Maybe You should be an Emcee: Black Poetry as Has-Been Protest - Adrian Matejka
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/emcee.html

A Way of No Way: Toward Constructing a Black Male Poetic - Gregory Pardlo
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/away.html

Masters and Master Works - Afaa M. Weaver
http://pbq.drexel.edu/archives/issues/issue75/content/verse/masters.html

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Hey there, I will read these and foward the links to a friend and poet, Rethabile Masilo. He blogs over at http://poefrika.blogspot.com and publicises his own poetry along with some fantastic caribbean, afro-american and african poets. You should check him out.
October 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJo
GRRR. That should say publishes. Sorry.
October 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJo

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