Wild Hundreds

Winner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award  (poetry category) 
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category) 
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize 
 Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards (poetry category) 
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: Nate Marshall
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/09/2015
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822963837
About the Author
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.