"The editors, including tireless poetry advocate Kahn, of this unique, new addition to the Gwendolyn Brooks legacy put together a richly diverse set of poets working with the most unusual and fertile new poetic form created in recent years.
National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes invented the Golden Shovel, which he illuminates in his stirring foreword, writing, "Because where do Poems come from if not other poems?" In a Golden Shovel poem, the last words in each line are taken from a Brook. "The editors, including tireless poetry advocate Kahn, of this unique, new addition to the Gwendolyn Brooks legacy put together a richly diverse set of poets working with the most unusual and fertile new poetic form created in recent years
