Baltimore Sons

Dean Bartoli Smith

Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of its decline with a sense of grace and hope. With the city of Baltimore as his...

Premium Chapters

Premium

Opening Credits

1/21/2023

Dedication

1/21/2023

Six Shooters

1/21/2023

Ali

1/21/2023

Cash for Guns, 1975

1/21/2023

Outlaw

1/21/2023

The Stickup

1/21/2023

Empty the Chamber

1/21/2023

At the Bel-Loc Diner

1/21/2023

Pistol Range

1/21/2023

My Father's Trains

1/21/2023

Ordnance

1/21/2023

Big Boy

1/21/2023

Unseld

1/21/2023

Baltimore

1/21/2023

Cap Guns

1/21/2023

Sidearm

1/21/2023

Howitzer

1/21/2023

Pure Shooter

1/21/2023

Assassin Sonnet

1/21/2023

Meeting Archie Clark at the Flaming Pit

1/21/2023

Miss Mason

1/21/2023

Memorial Stadium

1/21/2023

Sportswriter

1/21/2023

Bowman

1/21/2023

Trash Night, Guilford

1/21/2023

Baltimore Sons

1/21/2023

McKenzie

1/21/2023

Station North

1/21/2023

Bullet Fragments

1/21/2023

Riots

1/21/2023

Fatherhood

1/21/2023

Gwendolyn and Freddie

1/21/2023

Reading James Baldwin on Election Day in Charleston

1/21/2023

Joy Ride

1/21/2023

Shotgun

1/21/2023

One Blow Out the Brain

1/21/2023

The Wanting

1/21/2023

Anything I Want (He Gives It to Me)

1/21/2023

Pulling the Trigger

1/21/2023

Photograph

1/21/2023

The Viewing

1/21/2023

Secret Place

1/21/2023

Second Coming

1/21/2023

Delivery Room

1/21/2023

Cardboard Note

1/21/2023

The Lost Photographs

1/21/2023

Decoys

1/21/2023

Eady Does the Eagle Rock

1/21/2023

Lieutenant Fox

1/21/2023

Something to Cool You Off

1/21/2023

Virginia Creeper

1/21/2023

Father's Day Shotgun Sale

1/21/2023

.357

1/21/2023

Snipers

1/21/2023

Shooting Gallery

1/21/2023

America

1/21/2023

.45

1/21/2023

Yellow Coat, Motorbike

1/21/2023

Mirage

1/21/2023

Final Out

1/21/2023

The Wrecking of Old Comiskey

1/21/2023

Misericordia Blues

1/21/2023

Warrior

1/21/2023

Three Poems of Departure on Route 96

1/21/2023

Acknowledgments

1/21/2023

Ending Credits

1/21/2023