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Terry Blackhawk

A former Detroit high school teacher, TERRY BLACKHAWK (www.terrymblackhawk.com) is founding director of InsideOut Literary Arts Project (www.insideoutdetroit.org), a poets-in-schools program serving over 5,000 Detroit youth per year. She has four full-length collections of poetry including Escape Artist, winner of the John Ciardi Prize, and The Light Between (http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/1429/Light-Between). She was twice named Michigan Creative Writing Teacher of the Year and has received five Pushcart nominations and the 2010 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.

By Terry Blackhawk

Unfinished Poem

by Terry Blackhawk

i. A ball of wire supplants a body Body of tangled knots of wire The shirt ripped open to show The street inside. The dog that ran those streets Still runs above the salt caverns, Past cupolas and porches, rotundas— And somewhere a river. And somewhere a train, a track, And somewhere tears. Numbness. Custer’s

Summer 2014 Awards Issue

Rooftop Flying in Ahmedebad

by Terry Blackhawk

They call it kite fever, kite madness, gangs of kite looting children

hoarding bright acid kites, darting through rows of kite kiosks,

Summer 2014 Awards Issue

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