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Rashaun J. Allen

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Rashaun J. Allen is an Instructor of English at Westchester Community College, who was also the first Fulbright scholar in SUNY Stony Brook’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program history. A Vermont Studio Center and Arts, Letters, and Numbers residency recipient whose three independently published poetry chapbooks: A Walk Through Brooklyn, In The Moment, and The Blues Cry For A Revolution became Amazon Kindle Best Sellers in African American Poetry. He was a Finalist for the 2021 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Award and longlisted for the 2020 Dzanc Diverse Voice Prize. He has been a 2019 Tupelo Press 30/30 Project Poet, nominated for Sundress Publication’s 2018 Best of the Net Anthology in Creative Non-Fiction, and was a 2017 Ste ...more

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The Blues Cry For A Revolution

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My Installed Poem Commemorating The Previously Enslaved.

“RXR builds a luxury apartment on top of unmarked graves” could have easily been a headline on a Westchester paper.

About 16 months ago, I submitted a proposal to write a commemorative poem. I was a lil’ skeptical since every other submission I applied for required the poem to go with the application. But this one was different. It was from a construction company. The task was to create a poem rec

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