HOT PINK POET TREE PUNCHING BAGAGRAPHICART/POETRYNOVELBYGilbert DawsonA savage rip on the rant scene through subconscious America through the isolated internal visions of a true recluse sometimes often called an Autism. My autisms are vast reality and rich jungle of concrete inhabitants, violent sins, and drug make-up.Sexy fantasies you have their on your palette perhaps a kiss tonight my fancied darling diamond of desire. Petty poverty in this trap of shit hole jobs stuffed plenty of ketchup and soul killing sucked out grease buckets. Feeding this shit to the brain must hurt hand job jerk-offs and the lotion bottle that ran away with all the answers. I pretended to take up the guitar so it would make it easier on everyone closest to me when I go jump on that glass mushroom trip and shake the morning hour with no degree; no door opening piece of paper for me please. Forever in your eyes, so may they become clouds that carry us through the night.

Portrait of the Alcoholic is the first chapbook of poems from Ruth Lilly-winner and founding editor of Divedapper, Kaveh Akbar.

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. A President Obama "O" Book Club pick Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. Includes 7 additional poems, including "Brown Girl Dreaming." Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: "Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.”—The New York Times Book Review