revolver
from moses poems:
the harriet tubman series
by Quraysh Ali Lansana (‘01)

dead niggas tell no tales
you go on or die

i am temple threat
cold steel poke

she shows me weary
midnight tired hope

what's on the other side
must be somethin awful

somethin mo' powerful
than the seeds in my belly

From They Shall Run--Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press) Copyright © Quraysh Ali Lansana. Used by permission of the author

Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of three poetry books, including They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, 2004), a children's book entitled The Big World (Addison-Wesley, 1998), and editor of seven anthologies, including Dream of A Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology (Tia Chucha Press, 2006) and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2001). He is Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he is also Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Quraysh is the former Associate Editor-Poetry for Black Issues Book Review, and sits on the Editorial Board of Tia Chucha Press. Quraysh earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Creative Writing Program at New York University, where he was a Departmental Fellow.

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