Abandon automobile : Detroit city poetry 2001 / edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M.L. Liebler.

Sarah Addae
Sunstruck 35
/ Saladin Ahmed
Stereo Links 37
/ Ron Allen
Incinerator 39
Phraseology of a Mood 41
/ Alise Alousi
Trumbull Song 43
For D.M. 46
/ Mitzi Alvin
Motoring 48
/ Olivia V. Ambrogio
They Say God Marks 50
/ Alvin Aubert
You'd Have to See It 52
Numbers 52
Chene Park 53
/ Irvine Barat
Four Decades Ago 55
/ Faruq Z. Bey
Kantos 57
/ Sadiq Bey
Morning 85 59
/ Terry Blackhawk
Reader Response 60
February Teacher 61
/ Melba Joyce Boyd
We Want Our City Back 63
View of blue 66
Burial of a Building 68
/ Jill Witherspoon Boyer
Detroit Summers 72
Detroit City 73
/ William Boyer
Squatter's Rights 74
/ Donna Brook
People Don't Die Just So You Can Write a Poem about Them 76
I Have My James Schuyler Too 76
/ James Burdine
Eastside Hypocrite 78
/ Anthony Butts
Detroit, City of Straits 79
Belle Isle Men 80
/ Mary Ann Cameron
Hearing 81
Haiku '84 82
/ Norene Cashen
Smallness: Ann Mikolowski's Aris Koutroulis (1985) 83
/ Leon Chamberlain
Highland Park 84
/ Hayan Charara
Angelus Novus 86
Jesus Turns Asphalt into Bread 87
/ Esperanza M. Cintron
Street Market Requiem 89
/ James Clay
Where Gardens Grow 92
/ Andrei Codrescu
Detroit Love Song 95
/ Walter Cox
Rosedale Street 100
/ Stella Crews
Detroit Is in Renaissance 101
/ Robert Dana
Simple 103
/ Jim Daniels
Hard Rock 106
Detroit Hymns, Christmas Eve 107
from Time, Temperature 108
/ Toi Derricotte
St. Peter Claver 111
Blackbottom 112
/ Mark Donovan
HIP 1 113
HIP 2 114
/ Gloria Dyc
Cargo of Grace 115
On Seeing Old Friends in Detroit 115
/ Henrietta Epstein
Confession of the Rouge Park Killer 119
Wedding Photograph: Detroit 1935 120
/ Linda Nemec Foster
Detroit 123
/ Larry Gabriel
Cold Hands in the Urban Village 124
Band of Gypsies 124
Crosstown Traffic 125
/ Joan Gartland
Egyptian Gallery in August: Detroit 1994 126
Song in Tender Black 127
/ Jose Garza
On Leaving You 129
/ Dan Georgakas
Remembering Detroit 1973 131
October Song 132
/ Charles A. Gervin
My Sister Chicken Recalls How She Listened to the Supremes on the Radio as a Young Girl 133
/ Michele Gibbs
Message from the Meridian 134
Someday 137
/ Perri Giovannucci
Cadillac Dreams of the Detroit River 140
/ Maurice Greenia, Jr.
Poem in Memory of Artworks on the Hudson's Building 142
/ Jim Gustafson
Jukebox 145
/ Aurora Harris
Jitterbug, Jazz and the Graystone 147
/ Bill Harris
Get Off the Bus 151
Detroit Blues 151
Elegy 152
/ Kaleema Hasan
Envisioning Greed as Hope 153
/ Robert Hayden
Elegies for Paradise Valley 155
/ Errol A. Henderson
Support Your Local Police: What We Pay Our Police For? 161
/ Barbara Henning
As a Corrective 164
/ Lolita Hernandez
Garcia's Market 166
Quiet Battles 167
/ Jerry Herron
Passion of Edsel Ford 169
/ Ellen Hildreth
Heidelberg Project 175
/ Edward Hirsch
Three Journeys 176
/ Ann Holdreith
Birth 179
/ Dan Hughes
To Mary 180
Falling 180
Ugolino of Detroit 181
/ Kim Hunter
Born on Slow Knives 182
/ Clark Iverson
Where I Grew Up 185
/ Murray Jackson
Dudley Randall 186
8 Ball in Side Pocket 187
/ Geoffrey Jacques
Giant 188
Blab of the Pave 189
/ Stephen Jones
A Rose for Brian 192
/ Lawrence Joseph
Curriculum Vitae 193
/ Nubia Kai
Joe Louis 196
/ Aneb Kgositsile
Calling All Brothers 200
/ Faye Kicknosway
Detroit 203
/ Margo Lagattuta
Alone in America 206
/ Oliver Lagrone
I Heard the Byrd8 207
To Rosa Lee Parks 208
Bard of Hastings Street Bar 209
/ Christine Lahey
Afterglow 211
Motor City Men 212
/ Michael Lauchlan
Elephants 214
Liturgy on Trumbull 215
/ Janet Lawless
Fallen 216
/ Philip Levine
New World 218
Photography 2 219
Salt and Oil 220
/ M.L. Liebler
Save the Frescoes That Are Us 224
Mass Production 225
Straw Boss Dream 226
/ Naomi Long Madgett
City Nights 227
Grand Circus Park 228
Good News 229
/ Mike Madias
Street Life 230
/ Peter Markus
Breakdown 232
/ Marc Maurus
Five/Eight Time 234
/ Judith Mccombs
In Praise of the Natural Flowing 236
/ Raymond P. Mckinney
Thing Ain't What They Used to Be 238
/ Ken Mikolowski
January in Detroit 241
/ Derek P. Miller
Trans-Siberian Express 244
/ Mary Minock
Down by the Boulevard Dock 247
Wild Flowers of Detroit 250
/ Christine Monhollen
Solstice 253
/ Wardell Montgomery, Jr.
Roses Are Red 255
/ Jessica Care Moore
Black Coals with Dimond Hearts 257
/ Jan Mordenski
In the Sixties, They Banned Fireworks at Edgewater Park 260
Like Colavito 261
/ Edward Morin
Facing Away from Detroit 263
/ Ted Nagy
Beneath the Grand Heaven 264
/ Schaarazetta Natelege
Strait City 266
/ David J. Nelson
Father the Son and the Spirit 268
/ Kristin Palm
Motor City Trilogy 271
/ Ted Pearson
from The Blue Table 277
from Coulomb's Law 278
/ Sarah Jeanne Peters
My Light 279
/ Tom Peters, Jr.
Ode to a '64 Chrysler 280
/ T.R. Peters, Sr.
Ghosts of the Central Area: Detroit 282
/ Lawrence Pike
After Attending a Poetry Reading on February 14 284
Lines from a Highland Parker 285
/ Aaron Ibin Pori Pitts
An Epitah for Ogun in 16 Movementz 287
/ Sonya Marie Pouncy
Detroit Poem: Part One 289
/ Dudley Randall
Old Witherington 292
George 293
Bag Woman 294
/ Jon Randall
DE-troit Summerscene 295
/ Kevin Rashid
An Invitation 296
Historical 297
/ Marilynn Rashid
Zena 299
Shooting at No One 300
/ Eugene B. Redmond
Aerolingual Poet of Prey 301
Detroit Circa 1989/90 303
/ John R. Reed
Scrapyards: Eastside Detroit 304
/ Leslie Reese
I Love You (The Heidelberg Project) 306
/ Rod Reinhart
Detroit 1983: I Am Waiting 308
/ Judith Roche
Serious Childhood 310
/ Michele Valerie Ronnick
Conditor Huius Urbis: A Triptych for Mr. Woodward (1774-1827) 312
/ Irene Rosemond
Jazz/Blues/Jazz 314
/ Michael Ashton Rosemond
Mothering Birds 316
/ John Rybicki
Gravity 318
/ Osvaldo R. Sabino
Chameleon Posing with a Passport 319
/ Jacqueline Rae Rawlson Sanchez
Drew's Mom 320
/ Trinidad Sanchez, Jr.
Why Am I So Brown? 322
Let Us Stop This Madness 323
/ Steven Schreiner
Passion Fruit 326
/ Denise Sedman
Untitled 327
/ Semaj
Jonahs 330
/ Dennis Shea
Random Beyond the Confidence Line on the First Day of School 333
/ John Sinclair
Screamers 335
Consequences 336
/ Ella Singer
15th and Dalzelle Streets 338
/ W.D. Snodgrass
Old Apple Trees 340
/ Elizabeth Anne Socolow
A Woman Singing the Blues while Cleaning House in Detroit 343
/ Keith Carter Sterling
Detroit Grand Prix 345
/ Renee Tambeau
Renaissance 348
1967 349
/ Teresa Tan
I will never understand the city 350
/ Keith Taylor
Detroit Dancing 1948 352
/ Dennis Teichman
Uprising 354
/ Stephen Tudor
Factories along the River 357
Detroit River North to South 358
/ Chris Tysh
6/To Rehearse 361
7/As Quoted Before 362
/ George Tysh
Aire 363
Babes 364
/ Melanie Van Der Tuin
Detroit 365
/ Hilda Vest
Mandela8 Comes to Motown 370
Chant on US-80 370
/ Anca Vlasopolos
March of Dimes, April in Detroit 372
Late Encounter 373
/ Rayfield Waller
Ron Allen's Poem 375
Literally, for Elegance You Went 375
/ David Watson
Trust Jesus 378
/ Barrett Watten
Tibet 379
from Under Erasure 381
/ Kim Webb
Human Nature 385
/ Mary Ann Wehler
They Walked a Mile for a Camel, the Man's Cigarette 386
/ Karen Williams
Tearing Down "N" Building at Old Eloise Hospital for a New Golf Course 387
/ Tyrone Williams
Grace of God 389
Alternative Difference 390
/ Willie Williams
Many Marvelously Colored Memories 392
Where Did Her Love Go? 393.