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Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category)
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards
(poetry category)

Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. i.
  1. repetition & repetition &
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  1. pronounce
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  1. Fame Food & Liquor
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  1. god made the hundreds, man made it wild
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  1. Harold’s Chicken Shack #1
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  1. Granddaddy was the neighborhood
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  1. buying new shoes
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  1. Chicago high school love letters
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  1. out south
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  1. palindrome
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  1. Foot Locker
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  1. 1st love song to the black girl at smart camp
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  1. niggaicouldhavebeen #1
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  1. candy store
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  1. Chicago high school love letters
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  1. the break
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  1. Harold’s Chicken Shack #35
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  1. learning gang handshakes
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  1. hood woods
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  1. ii.
  1. Mama says
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  1. Ragtown prayer
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  1. in the land where whitefolk jog
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  1. Chicago high school love letters
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  1. landing
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  1. Alzheimer’s
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  1. on being called a nigger in Ann Arbor, MI, on South University Street by a drunk ticket scalper
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  1. Chicago high school love letters
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  1. prelude
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  1. Indian summer
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  1. when it comes back
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  1. pallbearers
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  1. Chicago high school love letters
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  1. praise song
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  1. iii.
  1. the last graduation
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  1. the first graduation
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  1. Harold’s Chicken Shack #86
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  1. directions
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  1. off white
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  1. juke
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  1. church in the wild
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  1. Chicago high school love letter
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  1. picking flowers
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  1. undress
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  1. cut
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  1. recycling
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  1. repetition & repetition &
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Back Cover
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