Marvin Gaye for President | poem by Featured Writer Donnelle McGee
"every poem a love poem / every song a love song"
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Marvin Gaye for President by Donnelle McGee
marvin like us beautiful & complicated vices in all of us if real & it starts in church mercy mercy me your voice a way out from the minister marvin gay sr you watching him walk the house in momma’s nylons & panties heels clickity clack clack on wood in that moment marvin saying father talk to me but naw silence and violence instead onward to detroit you go motown & the miracles & the beat goes on brother you becoming our prince duets with ross & others & then tammi terrell every poem a love poem every song a love song...
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Donnelle McGee is the author of Shine (Sibling Rivalry Press), Ghost Man (Sibling Rivalry Press), and Naked (Unbound Content). His newest book, American Reverie (Thera Books), is a call-and-response poetry collection coauthored by Synnika Lofton. McGee’s work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Controlled Burn, Colere, the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willard & Maple, among others, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Donnelle teaches in the MFA Program at Oklahoma City University and serves as a professor of English at Mission College.
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