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    A Walk Through Brooklyn
    A Walk Through Brooklyn
    A Walk Through Brooklyn
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    A Walk Through Brooklyn

    By Rashaun J. Allen

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    A Walk Through Brooklyn is a journey told through a collection of poetry. Each step taken is a poem about the black experience. About the experience inside families and around neighborhoods. Filled with words that move through turmoil. Words that give inspiration. And words that attract love. Readers will be moved by issues that touch their lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoyal Blue Publishing
    Release dateNov 19, 2012
    ISBN9780983009658
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    Rashaun J. Allen

    Rashaun J. Allen is the first Fulbright scholar in Stony Brook University’s MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program. A Vermont Studio Center and Arts Letters & Numbers residency recipient whose poetry chapbooks: A Walk Through Brooklyn and In The Moment became Amazon Best Sellers. He has been nominated for Sundress Publication’s 2018 Best of the Net anthology in Creative Non-Fiction and was a 2017 Steinberg Essay Contest Finalist in Fourth Genre. His work has appeared in TSR: The Southampton Review, Tishman Review, Poui, Hypertext, River Styx and among others.

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      A Walk Through Brooklyn - Rashaun J. Allen

      A Walk Through Brooklyn

      A Book of Poetry

      Rashaun J. Allen

      Copyright

      A Walk Through Brooklyn Copyright © 2009 by Rashaun J. Allen.

      Cover photo by Mikhail Kusayev © 123rf.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this Ebook may be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.

      Published by Royal Blue Publishing at Smashwords

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012909548  

      ISBN: 978-0-578-04766-9 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-0-983-00963-4 (kindle)

      ISBN: 978-0-983-00965-8 (Epub)

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      About The Author

      Rashaun J. Allen, Author

      Rashaun J. Allen is a recent college graduate from SUNY Albany, who received his Bachelor of Science degree in

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