I wrote these poems while serving as a study group leader for groups of retirees reading the plays of August Wilson's American Century Cycle. Each poem is related to something in the plays or to the playwright's stated influences, Romare Bearden, Amiri Baraka, Jorge Luis Borges, and the blues.
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