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Will's chapbook of poetry, Detroit: Workers, Teachers, Lovers is now available from Finishing Line Press! Click here, or on the button above above order your copy! 

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Detroit: Workers, Teachers, Lovers by William T. Langford IV ***Ritzenhein Emerging Poet Award Winner*** 

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In this bluesy ode to Detroit and its working-class people, William T. Langford IV has crafted a deeply thorough spirit of communal uplift. These poems resonate with “the gospel-growl” of those who still boom and brim within. But this book also demands a worthier way forward by reckoning with a city’s history of loss and abandonment. Fueled by his gifts of lyricism, musicality, and imagination, Langford ignites and warms a future harmony for Detroit that reflects “the dreamwork/ of divergent minds/ in concert.”  –Geffrey Davis, Author or Night Angler    

 “Will’s work builds the type of communities I want to belong to, where everyone is welcomed, held accountable, and celebrated. His poems are the invitation,  the tools, and the blueprints.”  –Thomas Budday, Poet, Educator, Community Organizer