Buckingham Palace – Alice-Catherine

Poetry at the Post: Reading Poetry in Alphabetical Order or “C” Is For Christian Campbell

AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE*
by Christian Campbell

I

I am the first of my family
to go to Buckingham Palace.
I had the flu, I nearly stayed home;…

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are welcomed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Buckingham Palace in London, April 1, 2009.

*From Running the Dusk by Christian Campbell, Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2010. Running the Dusk gives us a new voice for Caribbean arts and letters…(Yusef Komunyakaa)