First published in The New Testament (2014), “Homeland” was also published in the 2015 volume of Best American Poetry. “Homeland” is a testimony for all male African Americans in modern society. He expresses the brutally honest lifestyle of an African American male living in The United States. Brown displays how he feels as an African American, his description is haunting because he feels that it’s his fault that “nobody in th[e] nation feels safe.” Male African Americans have a reputation for being criminals and having violent attributes. Brown relates the feeling to being a vampire, an entire race of people feared by the general public because of stereotypes.