"The image is fire
blackening the vague lines
into defiance."
-Audre Lorde
Mitchell L. H. Douglas is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at IUPUI. He is the author of \blak\ \al-f? bet\, winner of the 2011 Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award, and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, a 2010 NAACP Image Award nominee. He is a Cave Canem fellow and cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets.