The Golden Shovel Anthology
New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
Second Edition
Edited by Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith
Foreword by Terrance Hayes
330 pages
6″ x 9″
978-1-68226-024-1 (paper)
February 2017
Second edition: May 2019
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