“Other Women’s Children,” by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Faculty member Amaud Jamaul Johnson‘s poem “Other Women’s Children” was recently published on poets.org. Read an excerpt below:

Other Women’s Children

I still don’t know how he knew
I was running. My mouth was open,
or those boys were barking that loud;
not that I hadn’t been chased
by dogs. There’s a moment when
you can’t tell from which angle
it’s coming, and the air is a red drum…

Find the rest of this poem (and hear Amaud read it) here: https://poets.org/poem/other-womens-children