The Glory Gets

Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018)

fearSinging CounterDraft of an Ex-Colored Letter Sent Home From the Post-Race War FrontI End the WinterApologia for SomethingMy Father as Walter Lee YoungerTry to HidebeautyMammy KnowPortrait D'une NégresseLightbluesMagdalene BringsMagdalene Begins to See JesusWhat Jesus Said to Magdalene at Their Last MealMagdalene's WaitMagdalene on the Third DayhoodooMemory of Vision of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans (1996)Memory of Ancestral Vision (2006)Angry Black Woman in Root Worker DragAfter, We'll Read the BibleJob to His Daughter Jemima[Faith is a virgin wrist][Today you spoke to me][Before I came to you][And how does God come][There is only][I recall four words][There is some blessedness]witThe Glory GetsFemale SurgeryMy 4:15pm Shrink's Appointment on ThursdayMemory of One Day in a KitchenBirthrightPatienceIf Free, ThenNotesGratitudePublication Acknowledgments and Credits