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William J. Harris City Pastoral
Garbage trucks Garbage cans Car alarms Noisy pushy Waking me at With their
The Dung Beetle Out of shit
this is a billy joE harris poem This is a Billy Joe Harris It’s the only I can’t write Or Dear Reader What is Well, its How do you judge it? Well, I don’t But I hope
 is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where he teaches American literature, African American literature, creative writing and jazz studies. Author of numerous scholarly articles and of poetry in many magazines and anthologies, he has published a critical study, The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic and two books of poetry, Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment and In My Own Dark Way. As well as being the editor of The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader, he is co-editor of Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African Literary Tradition and a special issue on Amiri Baraka of The African American Review (Summer/Fall 2003). His most recent work has appeared in The African American Review, uptown conversation: the new jazz study and Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans. He is currently writing a book of poems entitled A Guy in a Black SUV and Other Poems and editing a special issue of American Studies on the black visual artist Aaron Douglas.
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