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A.B. Spellman

poet & music critic

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Poetry

In 1964, A.B. Spellman published his first book of poems entitled The Beautiful Days. His second book, Things I Must Have Known was published in 2008 by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN. Here is a selection of poems from these sources.

  • (from) Things I Don’t Miss From My Youth
  • After Vallejo
  • Groovin’ Low
  • When Black People Are
  • On Hearing Sonny (“Newk”) Rollins in the Park on a Hot Summer Night
  • The City Poet On The Stroll

Recent Posts

  • “Melancholy Inside Families” by Pablo Neruda
  • “You, Reader” by Major Jackson
  • “The Mutes” by Denise Levertov
  • “Emerging,” by Pablo Neruda
  • “You’re Gonna Write This” by Patricia Smith

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