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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #3, BEHIND CHATHAM'S SUPERMARKET, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the alley behind chatham's
Last Line: What could be a rat moves through the picture
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Markets


15TH AND DALZELLE STREETS, by ELLA SINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the corner of fifteenth and dalzelle streets
Last Line: As a still life %waiting
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


1967, by RENEE TAMBEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so I have been longer with you than anyone
Last Line: Your smoke is in my lungs
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


6/TO REHEARSE, by CHRIS TYSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: D the bastard child of the engineer
Last Line: D forces things apart
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


7/AS QUOTED BEFORE, by CHRIS TYSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river had always been there
Last Line: Under the shooting stars of this new language
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


8 BALL IN SIDE POCKET, by MURRAY JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft side of hastings, oakland avenue
Last Line: Silent wins the 9 ball game by forfeit %merchant can't find a cue %that will sit still in his hand
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ACCOMMODATION TO DETROIT, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When good people die they become worms in detroit, they day
Subject(s): Hamtramck, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Death; Dead, The


AEROLINGUAL POET OF PREY, by EUGENE B. REDMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through a two-way telescope of time
Last Line: Like the first pungent breeze of gumbo
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


AFTER ATTENDING A POETRY READING ON FEBRUARY 14, by LAWRENCE PIKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In poetry as in the rackets
Last Line: I long for hideout matinees with you
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


AFTERGLOW, by CHRISTINE LAHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That movie made me awfully thirsty'
Last Line: And get on with it. 'the coffee's %strong to keep you good'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


AIRE, by GEORGE TYSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Supposing a globe of black wavers as the room breathes
Last Line: Shoes, your lips, your waist,' etc
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ALONE IN AMERICA, by MARGO LAGATTUTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am fourteen and take the woodward avenue
Last Line: The riots in the streets won't start for years
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ALTERNATIVE DIFFERENCE, by TYRONE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As always I was on my own
Last Line: Dressed in all black, obviously blonde
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


AN ABANDONED FACTORY, DETROIT, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands,
Subject(s): Factories; Detroit, Michigan


AN ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man is singing on the bus
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Urban Life


ANGELUS NOVUS, by HAYAN CHARARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He saw police hauling away teenagers
Last Line: Propelling him into the future, %his back turned on the debris
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


AS A CORRECTIVE, by BARBARA HENNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: An urban story with a lonely man, two deceiving women and the
Last Line: On the back of a building, detroit, in capital letters
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BABES, by GEORGE TYSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are pinholes in the social fabric through which we see
Last Line: A couch of hand-held dreams, the hide-a-bed of night where we wait
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BAG WOMAN, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearing an overcoat in august heat
Last Line: Talk with you, and drink your fetid breath
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BAND OF GYPSIES, by LARRY GABRIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We danced endlessly %turning the record over %time after time
Last Line: The politicization %of melodic love
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BARD OF HASTINGS STREET BAR, by OLIVER LAGRONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man, %he looks like a nutnik
Last Line: A mutnik %aloft in a sputnik
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BELLE ISLE MEN, by ANTHONY BUTTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over by the horses, %by the giant yellow slide
Last Line: As if the coming of day %would cover them
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BENEATH THE GRAND HEAVEN, by TED NAGY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the closed mind %kinked its neck
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BIRTH, by ANN HOLDREITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold steel piston's grease
Last Line: Artists born from persistent gray
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BLAB OF THE PAVE, by GEOFFREY JACQUES    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is something besides a portrait
Last Line: Hours pass by &nobody notices
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BLACK COALS WITH DIAMOND HEARTS, by JESSICA CARE MOORE-SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What will they name us?
Last Line: To turn young hot coals back to diamonds
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When relatives came from out of town
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When relatives came from out of town
Last Line: Whose very existence %tore us down to the human
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations


BLUE TABLE, SELS, by TED PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rubble %the common lot %vacant
Last Line: Unrelieved %weight %from above
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BORN ON SLOW KNIVES, by KIM HUNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born on slow knives %discreetly purchased
Last Line: Losing the great blue curve %smelling smoke
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BREAKDOWN, by PETER MARKUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near the crest of the I-75 rouge river bridge
Last Line: Hiding in my coat pocket could ever make him forget
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


BURIAL OF A BUILDING, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they bring %a building down
Last Line: From where %ghosts %are gone
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CADILLAC DREAMS OF THE DETROIT RIVER, by PERRI GIOVANNUCCI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun slips its yoke %behind saskatchewan
Last Line: They could not take the souls
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CALLING ALL BROTHERS, by ANEB KGOSITSILE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Calling the makers of babies %to become their saviours
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CARGO OF GRACE, by GLORIA DYC    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally the ships return to the river
Last Line: Greedily I unload their cargo of grace
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CHAMELEON POSING WITH A PASSPORT, by OSVALDO R. SABINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's a woman everyone notices
Last Line: Is her dark and carefully guarded passport
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CHANT ON US-80, by HILDA VEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tony hears the %hears the footsteps
Last Line: On to justice
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CHENE PARK, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: One old fellow contemplating others
Last Line: Before an embarrassedly captive audience?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CITY NIGHTS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My windows and doors are barred %against the intrusion of thieves
Last Line: And we are happy for their presence
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


COLD HANDS IN THE URBAN VILLAGE, by LARRY GABRIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He wanted to leap %onto his bike
Last Line: To feel the earth's throb %between their hearts
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire,
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers


COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire,
Last Line: The twisted river stopped at the cover of iron. %we burn this city every day.
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor And Laborers


CONDITOR HUIUS URBIS: A TRIPTYCH FOR MR. WOODWARD: 1. ON NAMING MYSELF, by MICHELE VALERIE RONNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My parents named me elias
Last Line: Propelled by wheel spokes of infinite rays
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CONDITOR HUIUS URBIS: A TRIPTYCH FOR MR. WOODWARD: 2. ORANGE SEEDS.., by MICHELE VALERIE RONNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The 12 I sent to you in april were just enough
Last Line: On top...Of the hill...Of your handsome home
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CONDITOR HUIUS URBIS: A TRIPTYCH FOR MR. WOODWARD: 3. EPITAPH FOR A.., by MICHELE VALERIE RONNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fifty some years were given to me
Last Line: In tallahasse I died. In heaven I live
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CONFESSION OF THE ROUGE PARK KILLER, by HENRIETTA EPSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father never taught me %how to hunt
Last Line: One shattered duck still tied %in his bleeding sack
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CONSEQUENCES, by JOHN SINCLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The music moves inside myself
Last Line: & shapes it, ah, ah, %well yes it does
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


COULOMB'S LAW, SELS, by TED PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back streets parallel the main drag
Last Line: The gesture is empty but what could fill it %tympanum distant thunder
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC, by LARRY GABRIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Static chrome-glazed enigma
Last Line: Something you'd give your life %to attain
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CURRICULUM VITAE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I might have been born in beirut
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


CURRICULUM VITAE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I might have been born in beirut
Last Line: I am as good as the unemployed %who wait in long lines for money
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DE-TROIT SUMMERSCENE, by JON RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When summerstink crawls the street on its belly
Last Line: & de-troit, burnin, fries a busted yolk of sun
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A city like detroit only exists in a prose poem. No stanza
Last Line: Ave., windows open, radio blasting. Keeping alive
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT, by FAYE KICKNOSWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What cadillac saw %what is no longer
Last Line: This earthly paradise %of north america
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT, by MELANIE VAN DER TUIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tried fiercely %not to set down roots,
Last Line: That makes the concrete buckle
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT 1983: I AM WAITING, by ROD REINHART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am waiting for the bridge to be built
Last Line: As I wait for the war to begin
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT BLUES, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Big legged hefty hipped juicy bosomed kinda
Last Line: Gritty kinda %de-troit blues
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT CIRCA 1989/90, by EUGENE B. REDMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: My 14-year-old niece debra (now a big time engineer in texas)
Last Line: Uncle, some with their own country %operating on their own time
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT CITY, by JILL WITHERSPOON BOYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thieves give more to blue %than hardness does
Last Line: The strangeness in the songs %that asphalt sings to trees
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT DANCING 1948, by KEITH TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone home from the war with stories
Last Line: That I was certainly light on mine
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT GRAND PRIX, by KEITH STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course, %there had first %been the metal
Last Line: His assailant, %the only noticeable emotion
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT HYMNS, CHRISTMAS EVE, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kenny and I down a few beers
Last Line: Laughs at that -- his spit sizzles
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT IS IN RENAISSANCE, by STELLA CREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the writers & the poets & the
Last Line: By say, what? The passers-in say %what took you so long?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT LOVE SONG, by ANDREI CODRESCU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Detroit gave me my first america
Last Line: Born in detroit oddly enough %but never regretfully
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT MOAN, by VICTORIA SPIVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Detroit's a cold cold place : and I ain't got a dime to my name
Last Line: And if I ever get back home : I ain't never coming to detroit no more
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT MOI, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who says the autumn sonata is not the loveliest of all
Last Line: And if your blue sonata thrills like detroit in the fall, %call al young
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT OBSERVATORY, 1999, by JULIE ELLISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should we restore the observatory
Last Line: The museum is done. I practice saying, %listen. Come.
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Space And Space Travel


DETROIT POEM: PART ONE, by SONYA MARIE POUNCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am your mother %I am your children
Last Line: I am your city %I am your soul
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT RIVER NORTH TO SOUTH, by STEPHEN TUDOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are lacing your boots at the windmill
Last Line: No one has free will. You are the seasons
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT SUMMERS, by JILL WITHERSPOON BOYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down by the river %with winter coming on
Last Line: Who has seen too many summers turn away
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT, CITY OF STRAITS, by ANTHONY BUTTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: February finds a likeness of spring in this unicorn
Last Line: That his pastor dunked him for last week
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone
Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan; Death - Babies


DETROIT, TOMORROW, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Newspaper says the boy killed by someone
Last Line: To kneel down and pray for life eternal
Subject(s): Death - Children; Detroit, Michigan


DOWN BY THE BOULEVARD DOCK, by MARY MINOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whitman could not have sung you justice
Last Line: And the drinking fountain %fails to work
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DOWNRIVER, DETROIT, by JENNIFER JO BLACKLEDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll tell you what kind of a place it is: the hill by my house is
Last Line: Stepping over of everyone else's garbage
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DREW'S MOM, by JACQUELINE RAE RAWLSON SANCHEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunshine bright walked into %la biblioteca publica bowen
Last Line: She means business %woman
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


DUDLEY RANDALL, by MURRAY JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pushed through a crack in earth
Last Line: You catch the mellow harmony %of their beat %siphon time, bottle it, then %uncork and stick it in ou
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Randall, Dudley (1914-2000)


EASTSIDE HYPOCRITE, by JAMES BURDINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: With grass in neat rows and
Last Line: Of fame outside this detroit
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


EGYPTIAN GALLERY IN AUGUST: DETROIT 1994, by JOAN GARTLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring your body in, out of the heat
Last Line: Do you remember me?'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ELEGIES FOR PARADISE VALLEY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My shared bedroom's window %opened on alley stench
Last Line: The devil's own rag baby doll
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ELEGY, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black bottom baby: %beaubien & beacon blossom
Last Line: Of the valley %called paradise
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ELEPHANTS, by MICHAEL LAUCHLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the deserted assembly plant, %on the siding that once led
Last Line: And roofless warehouse, %we chase our sudden parade
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ENVISIONING GREED AS HOPE, by KALEEMA HASAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Detroit as the intimate secret of my love
Last Line: The very antithesis of greed
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


EPILOGUE, by DENNIS TEICHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wide angle zigzag around rut and animal into the 'encampment'
Last Line: And that's what this sad haze meant
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


EPITAH FOR OGUN IN 16 MOVEMENTZ, by IBN PORI PITTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They played the drums
Last Line: Nsibidi paintingz that interpret the heartbeatz %of ogun
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


EVEN THE IDIOT MAKES DEALS, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: On mack avenue the smell of hot iron closes your eyes
Last Line: She knows you'll put a coin into her waiting hand
Subject(s): Arab Americans; Detroit, Michigan


FACING AWAY FROM DETROIT, by EDWARD MORIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And toward the wet horizon
Last Line: That's why our situation now is perfect
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FACTORIES ALONG THE RIVER, by STEPHEN TUDOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The 'thereness' of you -- seen from
Last Line: And you recede even as we approach
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FALLEN, by JANET LAWLESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: His brutalized trunk lay quiet
Last Line: And he asked me %to write this
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FALLING, by DANIEL HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking on basketballs to woodward
Last Line: As the air is let out of everything
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FATHER THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: 1. THE FATHER SPEAKS, by DAVID J. NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My children, how shall I speak to you now?
Last Line: Walk to the light...Walk to the light
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FATHER THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: 2. THE SON, by DAVID J. NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowing radiance falls to the earth
Last Line: Be filled, grow strong, and fight on %till dawn
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FATHER THE SON AND THE SPIRIT: 3. THE SPIRIT, by DAVID J. NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the beginning was the word'
Last Line: It is the spirit moving in %you
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FEBRUARY TEACHER, by TERRY BLACKHAWK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like ariadne with her thread
Last Line: And the stars bend to join me
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FIVE/EIGHT TIME, by MARC MAURUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Neon jazzmasters gigging after midnight %in the dizzy gillespie dark
Last Line: Man, that's devout, %such holy sounds!
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FOR D.M., by ALISE ALOUSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was an expert on the color blue
Last Line: Of the room %waiting for you
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


FOUR DECADES AGO, by IRV BARAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's neighborhood %you're glad you don't live in %tired bars
Last Line: I muse %on the fragility of existence
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GARCIA'S MARKET, by LOLITA HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: On michigan by trumbull %saturday morning
Last Line: And all times when the sea is far
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GEORGE, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a boy desiring the title of man
Last Line: A long time yet, because you're strong as a mule'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GET OFF THE BUS, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know where canfield at?'
Last Line: So you go 2 more after you see me get off. Ask anybody from there'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GHOSTS OF THE CENTRAL AREA: DETROIT, by SR. T. R. PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the wreckers come slamming the brick walls away
Last Line: Ghosts of the central area rise up %and fly into eternity
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GIANT, by GEOFFREY JACQUES    Poem Source                    
First Line: That day johnson shot the man in cold blood
Last Line: Retroactive to the day of the shooting
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GOOD NEWS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The headlines never say good morning any more
Last Line: With rare mint-marks in the other
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GRACE OF GOD, by TYRONE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked in late for work
Last Line: Where the aisle stopped
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GRAND CIRCUS PARK, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old men still drowse on gray park benches
Last Line: Hewn down and cast into the fire?'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


GRAVITY, by JOHN RYBICKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I swing the glass door out
Last Line: This is how the world runs: swallow
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HAIKU '84, by MARY ANN CAMERON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching the tigers
Last Line: Who needs a love life
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HARD ROCK, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bunch of guys walk out
Last Line: And we keep shouting %louder, louder
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HEARING, by MARY ANN CAMERON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can you hear the faint siss
Last Line: I can barely hear the deer %that ghost deer
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HEIDELBERG PROJECT, by ELLEN HILDRETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're walkin' down to jaybo's see
Last Line: It would be locked up inside, %where couldn't nobody see it
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HIGHLAND PARK, by LEON CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone, breathing deeply %looking about continually
Last Line: Bombproof highland park, %likewise, into history
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HIP 1, by MARK DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's seven-thirty and soon %it will be time to go
Last Line: To be here as it is to be there
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HIP 2, by MARK DONOVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we find horizons in poetry
Last Line: Only to meet the needs of civilization
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HISTORICAL, by KEVIN RASHID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look west, down merrick- %the sun fallen away
Last Line: Echoes the memory %of a museum
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


HUMAN NATURE, by KIM WEBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: The polish woman in ten yards of floral print
Last Line: Bright yellow gloves and hot soaps water
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


I HAVE MY JAMES SCHUYLER TOO, by DONNA BROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just because I lived in detroit for 22 years doesn't make me
Last Line: My james schuyler too
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


I HEARD THE BYRD, by OLIVER LAGRONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a bash!
Last Line: I heard the bird
Subject(s): Byrd, Donald (b. 1932); Detroit, Michigan; Jazz; Music And Musicians


I LOVE YOU (THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT), by LESLIE REESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love you %I know the workings seem obtuse
Last Line: What time o'clock shall we hoist and caravan our suitcases?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE CITY, by TERESA TAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I listen for the ocean's whisper
Last Line: In its socket %pays tribute to a star
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


IN PRAISE OF THE NATURAL FLOWING, by JUDITH MCCOMBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the storm pipe, between the old path
Last Line: & the scrawny stakes with the flapping red plastic %which claim this world
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


IN THE SIXTIES, THEY BANNED FIREWORKS AT EDGEWATER PARK, by JAN MORDENSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: But then, there, who needed fireworks?
Last Line: Given back to the night
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


INCINERATOR, by RONALD (RON) L. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can't dial 1-800-no-breath %to save you
Last Line: And no one's home to issue %new air
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


INVITATION, by KEVIN RASHID    Poem Source                    
First Line: What would it take to have you come here?
Last Line: Of leaving a good thing alone
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


JANUARY IN DETROIT OR SEARCH FOR TOMORROW STARRING KEN & ANN, by KEN MIKOLOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think it is interesting
Last Line: Though not exactly amusing
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan


JAZZ/BLUES/JAZZ, by IRENE ROSEMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was moved by the combo
Last Line: Jazz/blues jazz/blues
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


JESUS TURNS ASPHALT INTO BREAD, by HAYAN CHARARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Interstate 94, at milepost 210
Last Line: I've been doing this my entire life
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan


JITTERBUG, JAZZ AND THE GRAYSTONE, by AURORA HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed sound- %is that why we're here james
Last Line: James, are you listening?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


JOE LOUIS, by NUBIA KAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Golden gloves melt on the hot sands
Last Line: For us he lives in the silent wind catching snakes
Subject(s): African Americans; Boxing And Boxers; Detroit, Michigan; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Sports


JONAHS, by SEMAJ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caught in the belly of denial
Last Line: In the glue trap of rodents %caught in the rain
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


JUKEBOX, by JIM GUSTAFSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would eat a jukebox if it made me fall in love
Last Line: Live long enough %to get real
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


KANTOS, by FARUQ Z. BEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Artist... %for lack of a better
Last Line: Of reggae the taste %of a song
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LATE ENCOUNTER, by ANCA VLASOPOLOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eastern market is packing up as afternoon
Last Line: Tyrone, blot on my conscience, mon semblable, %my double
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LET US STOP THIS MADNESS, by JR. TRINIDAD SANCHEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bullets from the guns %that massacred the invalids
Last Line: Let us stop this madness... %the bullets... %the guns!
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LIKE COLAVITO, by JAN MORDENSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Believe me when I tell you nobody but an
Last Line: Was going to toss her
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LINES FROM A HIGHLAND PARKER, by LAWRENCE PIKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: North of detroit? They do it every time
Last Line: But slant the map to suit yourself, it's we who see the land
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LITERALLY, FOR ELEGANCE YOU WENT, by RAYFIELD (RAY) WALLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when 'those in the know' thought
Last Line: To make that elegance grow
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


LITURGY ON TRUMBULL, by MICHAEL LAUCHLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In midbaptism we rush from the house %to ask then to stop
Last Line: Body of christ,' she says
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MANDELA COMES TO MOTOWN, by HILDA VEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had stopped singing
Last Line: And we saw that you still dance
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MANY MARVELOUSLY COLORED MEMORIES, by WILLIE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soulful sultry huntresses
Last Line: By lovers captured by their songs
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MARCH OF DIMES, APRIL IN DETROIT, by ANCA VLASOPOLOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some point to this house here and say, this is where
Last Line: Un-american, your last (with a smug wink) you'll change %in the course of time
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MASS PRODUCTION, by M. L. LIEBLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we look closely inside %the tunnel of the american
Last Line: As slow as blood through the thick %grease heart of oil fed machines
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MESSAGE FROM THE MERIDIAN, by MICHELE GIBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You came to the right place
Last Line: Thinks they have the right %to come through
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MORNING 85, by SADIQ BEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the ceremony, of course
Last Line: I must tell you, prayers are answered
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MOTHERING BIRDS, by MICHAEL ASHTON ROSEMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The birds come singing to her
Last Line: To toss bread and seed, %in slow arcs mothering
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MOTOR CITY MEN, by CHRISTINE LAHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thank god %there are still young men
Last Line: These thin young men %in detroit city
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MOTOR CITY TRILOGY, by KRISTIN PALM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone crashes %at some point in this city
Last Line: Alternate routes are advised
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MOTORING, by MITZI ALVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just once more, %I'd like to take a ride in my father's car
Last Line: Other worlds, lived or living %in the deft maneuvers of his pilot hands
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MY LIGHT, by SARAH JEANNE PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't have to give up the rhythm
Last Line: And scare me back my %electric light impulses
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


MY SISTER CHICKEN RECALLS HOW SHE LISTENED TO THE SUPREMES ON THE ..., by CHARLES GERVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their voices seemed so large
Last Line: Until I could not tell their voices from my own
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


NEW WORLD, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man roams the streets with a basket
Last Line: And this was michigan in 1928
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


NUMBERS, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even the lady who serves me breakfast
Last Line: Clawing at the zipper on his pants, going straight in for the kill
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


OCTOBER SONG, by DAN GEORAKAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They who never ruled before
Last Line: Nothing %can ever be the same
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ODE TO A '64 CHRYSLER, by JR. TOM PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pearl white with a waterfall grill
Last Line: Head at the huge mass of unharmed metal
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Last Line: It seemed better that we kept alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees


OLD WITHERINGTON, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old witherington had drunk too much again
Last Line: Who was the sun, and he sole faithful planet
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Detroit, Michigan; Hate


ON LEAVING YOU, by JOSE L. GARZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Constant. Cycle. Once more
Last Line: Moment. %fall 1997
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ON RETURNING TO DETROIT, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the plum snow, the train's blond smoke
Last Line: Lowers the awnings over the shop stalls of fruit
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Railroads; Railways; Trains


ON RETURNING TO DETROIT, by CAROLYN FORCHE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the plum snow, the train's blond smoke
Last Line: Lowers the awnings over the shop stalls of fruit
Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Railroads


ON SEEING OLD FRIENDS IN DETROIT, by GLORIA DYC    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've lit a bonfire %in the center of a vacant lot
Last Line: My friends: we are all dying
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ORDINARY MORNING, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man is singing on the bus
Last Line: In detroit, city of dreams, %each on his own black throne
Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan


PARADISE VALLEY, DETROIT, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweetie holds a kool in her right hand
Last Line: With the puny voodoo stink %of her cigarette
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Poverty


PASSION FRUIT, by STEVEN SCHREINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the rubble of the vernor's plant
Last Line: Of the uniqueness of detroit, michigan, %its burn at the back of the throat
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PASSION OF EDSEL FORD, by JERRY HERRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was edsel ford when I was alive
Last Line: I was not mr. Edsel then. %I was just %free
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PEOPLE DON'T DIE JUST SO YOU CAN WRITE A POEM ABOUT THEM, by DONNA BROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night after bradley shot himself
Last Line: Older than another dead person
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PHOTOGRAPHY 2, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the road from ford's a mrs. Strempek
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PHOTOGRAPHY 2, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the road from ford's a mrs. Strempek
Last Line: Blackening the sky, and nothing in between
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PHRASEOLOGY OF A MOOD, by RONALD (RON) L. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon is raw light
Last Line: As I eat from the empty bowl of god
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PIONEERS OF DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In ancient days, on every hand
Last Line: To his own happy land.
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Past; Pioneers


POEM IN MEMORY OF ARTWORKS ON THE HUDSON'S BUILDING, by JR. MAURICE GREENIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Load/by the power and pull of empty spaces
Last Line: As strange architectures dismantle soul's sole residue/shadowed %echoed songs
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


POEM WITH ONE FACT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At pet stores in detroit, you can buy
Subject(s): Pets; Detroit, Michigan


POGROM IN DETROIT, by AARON KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Detroit, singing city, you were heard
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


PORTRAIT OF JOE LOUIS, by JENNIFER JO BLACKLEDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is a clenched fist
Last Line: It is coming straight at you
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


QUIET BATTLES, by LOLITA HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: All these things %make a woman'
Last Line: ...And I survived. %I survived
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


RANDOM BEYOND THE CONFIDENCE LINE ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by DENNIS SHEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's easy being young %in drab egg-and-buscart george's place
Last Line: Like unmeshed gears, %shiny and unused
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


READER RESPONSE, by TERRY BLACKHAWK    Poem Source                    
First Line: His discussion group has figured it out
Last Line: His polestar, his fixed center, a leaping beast, %an absence forever present in his sky
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


REMEMBERING DETROIT 1973, by DAN GEORAKAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nine turkeys ago %kennedy could not survive the bullets of the conspiracy
Last Line: Is sponsoring a new show called %the billion-dollar movie
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


RENAISSANCE, by RENEE TAMBEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waxing and waning of the moon
Last Line: The moon, %the next day comes
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


RON ALLEN'S POEM, by RAYFIELD (RAY) WALLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chef in the kitchen %cooks your heart
Last Line: Don't blame him, for the heart belongs to you
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ROSE FOR BRIAN, by STEPHEN JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Same old shit, different day
Last Line: Who loves your ugly ass, motherfucker?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ROSEDALE STREET, by WALTER COX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rosedale (timeless, sometimes), %street of children
Last Line: This is a street of the wonderfolk
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ROSES ARE RED, by JR. WARDELL MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roses are red %violets are blue %I am a poet %and so are you'
Last Line: I won't visit, I'll just write
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SALT AND OIL, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three young men in dirty wok clothers
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SALT AND OIL, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three young men in dirty wok clothers
Last Line: The day that passed, the night to come
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life


SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the house in detroit
Last Line: With cousin and brother %against the stranger
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social


SAVE THE FRESCOES THAT ARE US, by M. L. LIEBLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: These murals would have existed here
Last Line: Essential to our survival than politics %is to our reality
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SCRAPYARDS: EASTSIDE DETROIT, by JOHN RICHARD REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes you might find yourself driving
Last Line: That will transform them into marvels of utility and grace
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SCREAMERS, by JOHN SINCLAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stagger down overgrown sidewalks
Last Line: Shitters, where %did you go?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SERIOUS CHILDHOOD, by JUDITH ROCHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My first memories are of walking a picket line
Last Line: We both meant it
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SHOOTING AT NO ONE, by MARILYN RASHID    Poem Source                    
First Line: I get up in the middle of the night
Last Line: Into the air, %empty, the air
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SIMPLE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the heat of the day %and a plague of house
Last Line: The look in your eyes %as you tell this story
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SMALLNESS: ANN MIKOLOWSKI'S ARIS KOUTROULIS (1985), by NORENE CASHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: City permit %is tall and vast
Last Line: As the lord's prayer written %on a grain of rice
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SOLSTICE, by CHRISTINE MONHOLLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond this tree moss gathers %fully with reason creeping
Last Line: Ever flourished in the wounds of time
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SOMEDAY, by MICHELE GIBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someday %I'll write %my last detroit poem
Last Line: And some people to care- %I'll be there
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SONG IN TENDER BLACK, by JOAN GARTLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ladies named for flowers
Last Line: Heal your heart
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, by WILLIAM BOYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: January, %however frigid, %cannot cover
Last Line: And the assorted housing materials %we left behind
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools; Students


ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's
Last Line: I was tricked again, robbed of my patron, %and left with a debt to another white man
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools


STEREO LINKS, by SALADIN AHMED    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my way to the store
Last Line: Wishing these links were strange, I continue %on my way to the store
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


STRAIT CITY, by SCHAARAZETTA NATELEGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strait city %city of straits
Last Line: We need art %we die for it
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


STRAW BOSS DREAM, by M. L. LIEBLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hidden within the center %of the industrial crush
Last Line: Out to those who would %otherwise rob us blind
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


STREET LIFE, by MIKE MADIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the man downtown %with packets of dust
Last Line: We are the ones who wait %beyond the open gate
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


STREET MARKET REQUIEM, by ESPERANZA M. CINTRON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came home to %a third-world street market
Last Line: To till somebody else's soil
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SUNSTRUCK, by SARAH ADDAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city has moved too close to the sun %this july
Last Line: Icarus, come down now, %icarus, please, come down'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE: WHAT WE PAY OUR POLICE FOR?, by ERROL HENDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Malice was greeeeen %and he didn't know
Last Line: And what the hell we pay our police for?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TEARING DOWN 'N' BUILDING AT OLD ELOISE HOSPITAL FOR A NEW GOLF COURSE, by KAREN WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was sullen, black, %filled with the miseries as he watched 'n' building
Last Line: And neighborhood golfers sharpened their swing
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THE NEW WORLD, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man roams the streets with a basket
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THEY SAY GOD MARKS, by OLIVIA V. AMBROGIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Picture %2 grey-brown flurries of
Last Line: A weak flutter %like a prayer
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THEY WALKED A MILE FOR A CAMEL, THE MAN'S CIGARETTE, by MARY ANN WEHLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His fingernails drummed on the white enamel table
Last Line: Gum was in the ash tray
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE, by RAY MCKINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Get them in their faces
Last Line: In the pantheon of the hip
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THREE JOURNEYS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever has followed the bag lady
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


THREE JOURNEYS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever has followed the bag lady
Last Line: And slept peacefully again, like a child
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TIBET, by BARRETT WATTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: (low yellow renaissance towers
Last Line: Am formally known as tibet -- %theindifference
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TIME, TEMPERATURE,SELS, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1980. In the department store, %those foam packing chips that last forever
Last Line: I grabbed two handfuls and squeezed: %nothing can destroy them
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TO MARY, by DANIEL HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've saved your doodles, those neat, small, undersea
Last Line: We're still to meet are leaping in the sea
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TO ROSA LEE PARKS, by OLIVER LAGRONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quiet brown woman, %stepchild
Last Line: We shall overcome... %we shall overcome
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS, by DEREK MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There should have been a warning on the door
Last Line: Another story. I would learn that later, %mostly. Looking back
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TRUMBULL SONG, by ALISE ALOUSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a girl were %from land of trumbull
Last Line: These now bright %tree lined streets
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


TRUST JESUS, by DAVID WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A painter who cuts hair to buy supplies
Last Line: The '90s. You've gotta give me more than that
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


UGOLINO OF DETROIT, by DANIEL HUGHES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hear the whang-whang of the door closed in
Last Line: Because I'm not nice now, nor have I ever been
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


UNTITLED, by DENISE SEDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Get me out of this idea
Last Line: Through wars, famine, hatred-these words will not change
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


UPRISING, by DENNIS TEICHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the racism that built the factories shot its flames
Last Line: Histrex, where history can be what you make of it
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


VIEW OF BLUE, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river %was what %they wanted
Last Line: Outside entrances %to servants' %quarters
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WE WANT OUR CITY BACK, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Cause, we mean to take %our city back
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH: DETROIT 1935, by HENRIETTA EPSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is not a flower anywhere
Last Line: Oh, mamma, mamma, mamma, why did you leave me alone?'
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WHERE DID HER LOVE GO?, by WILLIE WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The girl dreamed %dreamed dreams on vinyl
Last Line: Aretha is an exception %maybe it's because she is afraid to fly
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WHERE GARDENS GROW, by JAMES CLAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn skies cast their expressions crying, smiling and
Last Line: Doubting that we all had a reason for being here one more %day
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WHERE I GREW UP, by CLARK IVERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking toward the river
Last Line: In my secret places %and yours
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WHY AM I SO BROWN?, by JR. TRINIDAD SANCHEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A question chicanitas sometimes ask
Last Line: Because it is one of her favorite colors!
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WILD FLOWERS OF DETROIT, by MARY MINOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old gap-toothed whiskered one %look at you:
Last Line: To pick the wild flowers of detroit
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


WOMAN SINGING THE BLUES WHILE CLEANING HOUSE IN DETROIT, by ELIZABETH (LIZ) ANNE SOCOLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wherever I have to do the most ordinary things
Last Line: A woman singing the blues %in full, and perfect voice
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


YOU'D HAVE TO SEE IT, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our brown bomber %as metonymic bronze
Last Line: Bereft of his legendary brawn %tripodic stance
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan


ZENA, by MARILYN RASHID    Poem Source                    
First Line: He comes to many doors
Last Line: We tell each other. %is that a quote?
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan