A Few Nate Marshall Poems

Each stanza in "a poem for Justin" begins w/ the same word "because" which means Nate's using ANAPHORA

Nate is very loose with "proper English" punctuation/grammar or CONVENTIONS in "a poem for Justin" (& other poems)

"drape them [Nate's clothes] over yourself like a prayer shawl" is an example of a

This Beat poet used to teach at Columbia, the university I attended, & fell off the stage in the class my old bf took:

There is a pun on the phrase "kick it" in Nate's "Letter to My Unborn Nephew"

There is an allusion/reference to Tupac's "Letter to My Unborn Child" in Nate's first poem for Justin.

Nate remembers Justin's first word

The following term from Nate's 1st Justin poem also means "promise:"

Nate's nephew's first name is

"Ambition, an aphrodisiac" is an example of

Who reads Baldwin's "Letter to My Nephew" on YouTube?

"Convention" in the first Nate poem about his nephew means these two things:

An "aphrodisiac" is

"I will teach you how to rough-house with ideas" is an example of personification

Nate's "Letter to My Unborn Nephew" is mostly about race issues.

Which line has a pun in it?

The 1st stanza in "a poem for Justin" seems the OPPOSITE of these lines in "Letter to My Unborn Nephew"

A "pun" is "a form of wordplay that uses many meanings of a term or similar-sounding words

"I Used to Love H.E.R.," interestingly, came from Common's "Louder Than a Bomb" CD

Baldwin's "Letter to My Nephew" is about