4th Shift ebook

4th Shift is a multidisciplinary literary work that uses poetry, performance text, and narrative to explore memory, identity, and the unseen emotional labor of survival within Black urban life. It explores the layered realities of growing up on Chicago’s West Side and the ongoing process of self-definition across changing environments—street, stage, memory, and interior life. Moving between poetry, monologue, and performance score, the work traces how masculinity, race, sexuality, class, and artistic identity are formed, challenged, and reimagined over time.