Wild Hundreds - Paperback

by Nate Marshall (Author), Nate A. Marshall (Author)

Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Award
Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award

Wild Hundreds is a long love song to Chicago. The book celebrates the people, culture, and places often left out of the civic discourse and the travel guides. Wild Hundreds is a book that displays the beauty of black survival and mourns the tragedy of black death.

Author Biography

Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is a Cave Canem Fellow whose work has appeared in Poetry magazine, New Republic, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He is coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.Marshall has won the Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. He is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wabash College, a member of the poetry collective Dark Noise, and also a rapper.