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    Toronto The Good
    Toronto The Good
    Toronto The Good
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    Toronto The Good

    By Jeff Roulston

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    There isn't just one Toronto. It is a big diverse city that is experienced differently by every one of its nearly three million people. The poems in Jeff Roulston's first chapbook Toronto The Good truthfully capture the Toronto he knows in his direct, but lyrical style, influenced by his Toronto slanguage and lifestyle and the broader hip-hop culture many in his generation live and breathe.

    Follow him on Twitter @JeffRoulston, read his writing on www.JeffRoulston.com and his blog at www.TOStateOfMind.com.

    Cover art by Dion Fitzgerald. See his art at www.dvyneart.com and follow him on Twitter @DVYNEART.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeff Roulston
    Release dateFeb 8, 2014
    ISBN9780992067816
    Toronto The Good
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    Jeff Roulston

    Jeff Roulston, also known as Jeff The Writer, is a social service worker, coach and proud Torontonian. He is a graduate of Oakwood University, an Historically-Black College, where he studied communications, played varsity basketball and edited the Spreading Oak newspaper. His poetry, short stories, essays and articles have appeared in The Huntsville (Ala.) Times, Urbanology, HipHopCanada.com, Sway, OmitLimitation.com, BKNation.org and the anthology F-You: The Forgiveness Project, Memoirs of Violence and Compassion. He has been interviewed by Matt Galloway on CBC Radio Toronto’s Metro Morning about the bleak job market for recent college graduates and featured, along with co-workers, in a Toronto Star article about his work with inner city youth.Sign up to receive e-mail updates on my writing, my latest blog posts and links to the latest books, music and news about city life: http://eepurl.com/bKgfUL. Updates will be sent a couple times per month, never more than once a week.

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