Precursors -- Modernists, 1940s to 1960s -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith -- Riot -- Boy breaking glass -- For a young artist -- Elegies for Paradise Valley -- A letter from Phillis Wheatley -- Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) -- Harlem Gallery -- Chi -- The 1960s and beyond -- The Black arts movement -- Amiri Baraka (1934- ) -- Black art -- In memory of radio -- An agony. as now. -- A poem for Black hearts -- AM/TRAK -- Mari Evans (1923- ) -- I am a Black woman -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Nikki-Rosa -- Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) -- Bobb Hamilton (1928-1998) -- David Henderson (1942- ) -- Downtown-boy uptown -- Calvin C. Hernton (1932-2001) -- The distant drum -- Haki Madhubuti (1942- ) -- But he was cool, or : he even stopped for green lights -- Larry Neal (1937-1981) -- Malcolm X -- an autobiography -- Carolyn Rodgers (1940-2010) -- how i got ovah -- Breakthrough -- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) -- Homecoming -- Malcolm -- blk/rhetoric -- A poem for my father -- Poem no. 3 -- Towhomitmayconcern -- A.B. Spellman (1935- ) -- I looked & saw history caught -- Edward S. Spriggs (1934- ) -- For Brother Malcolm.
The 1960s and beyond : outside the Black arts movement -- Gerald Barrax (1933- ) -- Eagle. Tiger. Whale. -- King : April 4, 1968 -- Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) -- lazarus -- leda 1,2,3 -- far memory -- Jayne Cortez (1936- ) -- Solo finger solo -- In the morning -- Michael S. Harper (1938- ) -- The yellow dishes -- Yaddo, Mrs. Ames & Black men -- Coliseum pool, 1960 (dream) -- Don't explain : a ballad played by Dexter Gordon -- June Jordan (1936-2002) -- What would I do white? -- Current events -- Adreinne's poem : on the dialectics of the diatonic scale -- Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) -- Jail poems -- Battle report -- I have folded my sorrows -- Walking Parker home -- African dream -- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- The violent space (or when your sister sleeps around for money) -- The idea of ancestry -- Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane -- Belly song -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Coal -- To my daughter the junkie on a train -- Fishing the white water -- Clarence Major (1936- ) -- On watching a caterpillar become a butterfly -- The great horned owl -- Clay Bison in a cave -- Territorial claims -- Colleen J. McElroy (1935- ) -- Paris subway tango -- Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra -- The Pope replies to the Ayatollah Khomeini -- Ed Roberson (1939- ) Sit in what city we're in -- Eclogue -- Ntozake Shange (1948- ) -- my father is a retired magician -- nappy edges (a cross country sojourn) -- Primus St. John (1939- ) -- The cigar maker -- Trap a Congo -- Catch and release -- Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005) -- Onion bucket -- Downtown boom -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Revolutionary Petunias -- On stripping bark from myself -- Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999) -- letters from a New England Negro -- Mrs. Josiah Harris / August 25, 1867 -- Miss Ann Spencer / August 30, 1867 ; October 22, 1867 ; November 24, 1867 ; February 15, 1868 -- Al Young (1939- ) -- The song turning back into itself₃ -- Ravel : Bolero -- A dance for Ma Rainey.
Heirs -- First wave, post-1960s -- Ai (1947-2010) -- Hoover, Edgar J. -- Conversations -- The curious journey of Ulysses Paradeece after a hurricane -- Cyrus Cassells (1957- ) -- Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson -- Wild Indigo, because -- The white iris beautifies me -- Wanda Coleman (1946- ) -- Ars poetica -- Bedtime story -- American Sonnet (17) -- American sonnet (54) -- Toi Derricotte (1941- ) -- Holy cross hospital -- The weakness -- Invisible dreams -- The minks -- Melvine Dixon (1950-1992) -- Climbing Montmartre -- Paring potatoes -- Turning forty in the 90's -- Heartbeats -- Rita Dove (1952- ) -- Nestor's bathtub -- History -- The fish in the stone -- Daystar -- Heroes -- American smooth -- Hattie McDaniel arrives at the coconut grove -- The bridgetower -- Cornelius Eady (1954- ) -- Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 -- Crows in a strong wind -- Christopher Gilbert (1949-2007) -- She -- Absentee landlord -- Touching -- C.S. Giscombe (1950- ) -- The northernmost road -- The 1200N road, going East -- Jewelle Gomez (1948- ) -- My chakabuku mama (a comic tale) -- El beso -- Angela Jackson (1951- ) -- The love of travellers (Doris, Sandra and Sheryl) -- Two trains -- Ida rewrites -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) -- Deep song -- Foxes -- Composition with guitar and apples -- Patricia Spears Jones (1951- ) -- Wearing my red silk Chinese jacket -- Thanksgiving -- Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) -- Venus's-flytraps.
My father's love letters -- "You and I are disappearing" -- Facing it -- Blue light lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel -- Lingo -- jawbone of an ass. a shank] -- The devil comes on horseback -- Requiem -- Nathaniel Mackey (1947- ) -- Song of the andoumboulou : 16 -- Glenn on Monk's Mountain -- Sound and severance -- Thylias Moss (1954- ) -- The day before Kindergarten : Taluca, Alabama, 1959 -- Timex remembered -- One for all newborns -- Mulberry breath as proof of the wave in form of question -- The culture of near miss -- Me and Bubble went to Memphis -- Harryette Mullen (1953- ) -- Unspoken -- All she wrote -- Black Nikes -- [if your complexion is a mess] -- [Of a girl, in white] -- Marilyn Nelson (1946- ) -- Mama's promise -- Daughter's, 1900 -- Second wave, post-1960s -- Elizabeth Alexander (1962- ) -- The Venus hottentot (1825) -- Boston year -- The blue whale -- Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963- ) -- Sticks -- View-master -- Bright moments -- All their stanzas look alike -- Mr. Dynamite splits -- First grade, all over again -- Godzilla's avocado -- Forrest Hammer (1956- ) -- Lesson -- In the middle -- Goldsboro narratives, #4, #7, #28 -- Kendra Hamilton (1958- ) -- The science of wearing a dress -- Belle's promenade : Nassau Street, Princeton -- Myronn Hardy (1972- ) -- Undertones -- On a beach : my life -- The headless Saints -- Making stars with Jacob Lawrence -- Terrance Hayes (1971- ) -- What I am -- At Pegasus -- Derrick poem (the lost world) -- Touch -- Wind in a box -- Major Jackson (1968- ) -- Don Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz Café -- Some kind of crazy -- Urban renewal : Block party
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (1967- ) -- The gospel of barbecue -- Fast skirt blues -- Hagar to Sarai -- The wife of Lot before the fire -- A. Van Jordan (1965- ) -- Regina Brown hears voices, kills son week before Christmas, December 18, 1996 -- The Flash reverses time -- Black light -- thought clouds -- Mixed couple, 1908 -- Discovering the camera -- Carl Phillips (1959- ) -- Blue -- X -- Leda, after the swan -- As from a quiver of arrows -- Fretwork -- Speak low -- Civilization -- Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008) -- Orpheus plays the Bronx -- How people disappear -- Skin trade -- Icarus on Fire island -- Homeric interim -- Patricia Smith (1955- ) -- Prologue -- and then she owns you -- She see what it sees -- Up on the roof -- Don't drink the water -- Sharan Strange (1959- ) -- Childhood -- Froggy's class -- Last supper -- Natasha Trethewey (1966- ) -- Flounder -- Limen -- Bellocq's Ophelia -- Letter home -- Elegy for the native guards -- Pastoral -- Incident -- Myth -- Kevin Young (1970- ) -- Letters from the North Star -- Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary -- The game -- For the Confederate dead -- Crowning -- Third wave, post-1960s -- Jericho Brown (1976- ) -- Track 1 : lush life -- Prayer of the backhanded -- Track 4 : reflections -- Track 5 : Summertime -- Michael Sibble Collins (1959- ) -- Six sketches : when a soul breaks -- Poetry -- Bryan, Texas procession -- Kyle Dargan (1980- ) -- Search for Robert Hayden -- Microphone fiend -- Palinode, once removed -- Man of the family -- Camille T. Dungy (1972- ) -- What to eat, and what to drink, and what to leave for poison -- Cleaning.
Swarm -- The killed rabbit -- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (1971- ) -- Garden -- Lost -- Bop : the North Star -- Crystal Williams (1970- ) -- This parable, this body -- Extinction -- Enlightenment -- Ronaldo Wilson (1970- ) -- Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, and the Brown Boy's mother -- Serena Williams, whiteness, and the act of writing -- On the C train the Black object ponders Amuzati's family eaten in the Congo.
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