Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series)

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.