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Milk Chocolate/Naked Moon
Joe Okonkwo has produced a volume of poetry that is actually a mosaic of African-American and Gay issues. This riveting collection covers everything from Jazz and sex, to politics and dating; from racism within the Gay community, to black on black racism. There are poems about the journey from depression to wholeness and poems about exuberant gay men flouncing about the streets wearing only silk boxer shorts and argyle socks. This volume has a little of everything including poignant tributes to Jazz greats Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. Joe Okonkwo fearlessly tackles taboo subjects such as what some African-Americans really think about the ghetto, who really bears the blame for slavery and how expectations the Gay media sets forth affect those who don'tor can'tcomply. Milk Chocolate/Naked Moon is exactly what we've been waiting an unpredictable, page turning collection of poetry.
140 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2002
11 people want to read
About the author
Joe Okonkwo
8 books69 followersJoe’s debut novel
Jazz Moon
won the Publishing Triangle's prestigious Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl, has called Jazz Moon “A passionate, alive, and original novel about love, race, and jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris — a moving story of traveling far to find oneself.”
Joe's short stories have appeared in Newtown Literary, Global City Review, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Shotgun Honey, Love Stories from Africa, Best Gay Stories 2015, and Strength. His short story “Cleo” earned a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Joe served as prose editor for Newtown Literary, a journal dedicated to nurturing writers from Queens, New York. He edited Best Gay Stories 2017. Joe has led creative writing workshops at Gotham Writers' Workshop, Newtown Literary/Queens Library, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. He has served on the planning committee for the Provincetown Book Festival.
Joe's story collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck , was published by Amble Press. It has been been lauded by noted author William J. Mann who calls Kiss the Scars “A remarkable examination of the human condition.”
He is represented by the Baldi Literary Agency and is currently at work on a new novel called King Gladys.
Joe Okonkwo lives and writes in Queens, New York City.
#KissTheScars
#JazzMoonNovel
Joe's short stories have appeared in Newtown Literary, Global City Review, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Shotgun Honey, Love Stories from Africa, Best Gay Stories 2015, and Strength. His short story “Cleo” earned a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Joe served as prose editor for Newtown Literary, a journal dedicated to nurturing writers from Queens, New York. He edited Best Gay Stories 2017. Joe has led creative writing workshops at Gotham Writers' Workshop, Newtown Literary/Queens Library, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. He has served on the planning committee for the Provincetown Book Festival.
Joe's story collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck , was published by Amble Press. It has been been lauded by noted author William J. Mann who calls Kiss the Scars “A remarkable examination of the human condition.”
He is represented by the Baldi Literary Agency and is currently at work on a new novel called King Gladys.
Joe Okonkwo lives and writes in Queens, New York City.
#KissTheScars
#JazzMoonNovel
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