With apologies to Walt Whitman, Lonnie Shaw contains true multitudes. He is a transgender activist, a person with disabilities, a proud black poet, a survivor of the state, a social justice warrior, a heartbreaking elegist, and quite possibly the funniest writer I know. His first chapbook,
A Letter to the Parents of Trayvon Martin
A Letter to the Parents of Trayvon Martin
A Letter to the Parents of Trayvon Martin
With apologies to Walt Whitman, Lonnie Shaw contains true multitudes. He is a transgender activist, a person with disabilities, a proud black poet, a survivor of the state, a social justice warrior, a heartbreaking elegist, and quite possibly the funniest writer I know. His first chapbook,