“Red Wilderness,” 2020

Draft of the poem "Another Strange Land: Downpour Off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)." The form is strophic, the lines moving across the page like water.

This poetry submission won Coleman the 2020 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and some of its poems are forthcoming in Coleman´s next book, scheduled for publication in 2024. The first poem in the submission, ¨Another Strange Land¨, first appeared in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day on March 24th, 2020, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

Second page of the poem "Another Strange Land: Downpour Off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)."

Draft of the poem "A Fire She Loved." The form is strophic, broken up into stanzas of different lengths.

¨A Fire She Loved¨ first appeared in On the Seawall in April, 2019, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

Typed draft of the poem "American Football." The form is strophic stanzas of different lengths and various lines are indented.

¨American Football¨ first appeared in On the Seawall in April, 2019, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

Typed draft of the "Negro Reverend of an All-White Church, Pennsylvania, 1941." The form is strophic stanzas of different lengths.

¨Negro Reverend¨ first appeared in The Missouri Review as Poem of the Week, October 28th, 2019, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

Typed draft of the poem "Viciousness in Ends." The form is a palindrome of tercets with caesuras, or white space between th

¨Viciousness in Ends¨ first appeared in Pinwheel in fall 2015, later published in St Trigger, (Button Poetry, 2016) and Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018).

Typed draft of the poem "In the City of Tenderness and Desperate Promises." The form includes five quatrains and one couplet.

¨In the City of Tenderness¨ first appeared in What Rough Beast on Sept. 29th, 2019, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

Typed draft of the poem "St. Trigger." The form employs white space between the words to create rhythm across the page.

¨St. Trigger¨ first appeared in Pinwheel in fall 2015, later published in St Trigger, (Button Poetry, 2016) and Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018).

Typed draft of the poem "Rich." The form is a prose poem in a dictionary definition style after A. Van Jordan.

¨Rich¨ was first published in St Trigger, (Button Poetry, 2016) and Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018).

Typed draft of the poem "I Found Kin in a Thrift Store Photograph." The form includes twelve couplets.

¨I Found Kin¨ first appeared in The Missouri Review as Poem of the Week, June 24th, 2019 and on Tracy K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown on Aug 24th, 2020, forthcoming in Red Wilderness (Four Way Books, 2024).

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