Blacker than Shakespeare’s Ink: The Diary of a Nostalgic Kid is the debut poetry collection by poet Cordney "MAC Woods" McClain, whose work is a reflection of his community development efforts that strive to educate the next generation of new readers. “The Diary of a Nostalgic Kid” is an installment filled with work that is harmoniously personal, political, intimate, self-reflective, and confrontational. It is an inside look at the personal growth of a Black boy coming of age and becoming a Black man in America. From pop culture to gang violence, the ideals of televised engineering, religious and racial implications, and sex are all a summation of effects sculpting the person that he has become.