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There’s no place like New York City, and yet, New York City is like all places.

From Bram Stoker and Elgin Award winner Jamal Hodge, I’m Not A Good Person, I’m A New Yorker is an exploration of New York’s many paths, a poetry mixtape about race, class, love, loss, and survival that uses a Black man’s lived experience to reveal the cultural architecture of the world‘s greatest city.

This collection channels the spirits of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and other poets of the Harlem Renaissance as it walks the long blocks between beauty and brutality, all beneath the bright lights of the city’s tender grotesqueries, its savage and wondrous togetherness.

AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE SEPTEMBER 1st, 2026

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Author Talk & Book Signing

Join us at Plainfield Public Library for a Author Talk & Book Signing with Jamal Hodge. Jamal will present his latest release, "I’M NOT A GOOD PERSON I’M A NEW YORKER" (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2026).

The program will start with a poetry reading followed by a book signing.

JAMAL HODGE is an award winning director, a Bram Stoker Award-winning writer, a 2x Elgin Award winner (first place Everything Endless, third place The Dark Between The Twilight) a Nebula Award finalist, and a co-producer on the academy award nominated documentary (Armed Only With A Camera The Life And Death of Brent Renaud). He is the first African American to place in the SFPA Dwarf Stars Award (2nd place), and the editor of Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales, and Shards of Gotham: New York City Through The Looking Glass (Ruadán Press, 2027).