View Review Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems AudioBook by James Baldwin

Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22, 1938) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is Mumbo Jumbo (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York.. Reed's work has often sought to represent neglected African and African-American

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987) was an American writer and a writer, he garnered acclaim across various mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005

In the poem "Growing Pains," he writes: "I take my plastic rocket ship / To bed, now that I'm older. / My wooly bear is packed away, / Why do nights feel colder?" Kirkus Reviews called Kennedy's verse "unassumingly elegant," and in Horn Book, Mary M. Burns concluded, "these are poems to delight the ear and stimulate the imagination."

The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ... Read Poem 4. Mid-Term Break I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home. ... Read Poem 5. Requiem For The Croppies The pockets of our greatcoats full of No kitchens on the run, no striking