Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Libraries
[2022]
Civic dialogue edition
"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal
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9781556596421
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The tradition
Poems. Selections
Ganymede -- As a human being -- Flower -- The microscopes -- The tradition -- Hero -- After another country -- The water lilies -- Foreday in the morning -- The card tables -- Bullet points -- Duplex -- The trees -- Second language -- After Avery R. Young -- A young man -- Duplex -- Riddle -- Good white people -- Correspondence -- Trojan -- The legend of big and fine -- The peaches -- Night shift -- Shovel -- The long way -- Dear whiteness -- Of the swan -- Entertainment industry -- Stake -- Layover -- Duplex -- Of my fury -- After Essex Hemphill -- Stay -- A.D. -- Turn you over -- The virus -- The rabbits -- Monotheism -- Token -- The hammers -- I know what I love -- Crossing -- Deliverance -- Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park -- Dark -- Duplex -- Thighs and ass -- Cakewalk -- Stand -- Duplex: cento.
Brown, Jericho, author.
Jericho Brown.
2022
The tradition
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Jericho Brown
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[2019]
"Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal
Book
9781556594861
Book
The tradition
Poems. Selections
Lannan literary selection
Brown, Jericho, author.
Jericho Brown.
2019
The tradition
2016.
First Scribner hardcover edition.
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for
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9781501126345
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The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
"The tradition" / Introduction / Homegoing, AD / The weight / Lonely in America / Where do we go from here? / "The dear pledges of our love": A defense of Phillis Wheatley's husband / White rage / Cracking the code / Queries of unrest / Blacker than thou / Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) / Black and blue / The condition of black life is one of mourning / Know your rights! / Composite pops / Theories of time and space / This far: Notes on love and revolution / Message to my daughters
Ward, Jesmyn, editor.
Jericho Brown -- Jesmyn Ward -- Kima Jones -- Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah -- Wendy S. Walters -- Isabel Wilkerson -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Carol Anderson -- Jesmyn Ward -- Clint Smith -- Kevin Young -- Kiese Laymon -- Garnette Cadogan -- Claudia Rankine -- Emily Raboteau -- Mitchell S. Jackson -- Natasha Trethewey -- Daniel José Older -- Edwidge Danticat.
edited by Jesmyn Ward.
2016
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
University of Missouri Press,
Book
Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama in honor of Hardin Craig.
Hardin Craig / The contribution of the interludes to Elizabethan staging / Trissino's Art of poetry / The Spanish tragedy, or Babylon revisited / Intrigue in Elizabethan tragedy / Robert Greene as dramatist / Marlowe's Dido and the tradition / Marlowe's humor / Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the Eldritch tradition / Marlowe's "tragicke glasse" / More Shakespeare sonnet groups / Three homilies in The comedy of errors / Pyramus and Thisbe once more / Henry V as heroic comedy / Tudor intelligence tests: Malvolio and real life / Hamlet's defense of the players / Hamlet's fifth soliloquy, 3.3.406-17 / 'Greeks' and 'Merrygreeks': a background to Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida / Recognition in The winter's tale / Repeated situations in Shakespeare's plays / Stage imagery in Shakespeare's plays / Engagement and detachment in Shakespeare's plays / Francis Bacon on the drama / The revenger's tragedy and the virtue of anonymity / Italian Favole boscarecce and Jacobean stage pastoralism / Thomas Heywood's dramatic art / Massinger the censor / Lenten performances in the Jacobean and Caroline theaters / The return of the open stage
Hosley, Richard, editor.
Richard Hosley -- Richard Southern -- Marvin T. Herrick -- S.F. Johnson -- Alfred Harbage -- Kenneth Muir -- Don Cameron Allen -- Clifford Leech -- Muriel C. Bradbrook -- Irving Ribner -- Brents Stirling -- T.W. Baldwin -- Madeleine Doran -- Roy W. Battenhouse -- C.J. Sisson -- William A. Ringler, Jr. -- Fredson Bowers -- T.J.B. Spencer -- Northrop Frye -- Matthew W. Black -- Clifford Lyons -- Maynard Mack -- Paul H. Kocher -- Allardyce Nicoll -- John Leon Lievsay -- Arthur Brown -- Philip Edwards -- G.E. Bentley -- George F. Reynolds.
1962
Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama in honor of Hardin Craig.
9781888889826
9781888889819
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01497863
Pushcart prize XLI, 2017 : best of the small presses
Pushcart Prize XLI, 2017 : best of the small presses
Pushcart prize 41
Pushcart prize forty-one
Pushcart prize 2017
The story of a true artist / I sing you for an apple / Elk / The G.R.I.E.F. / Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles / The hornet among us / The spring forecast / Avarice / Scream (or never minding) / Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face / The George Spelvin Players / The revolt of the turtles / If you can't say anything nice write a one-star review / Basement delivery / Naming happiness / The antique blacks / Taxidermy / The beating heart of the wristwatch / Winter wheat / Consider Oedipus' father / The mushroom queen / Cocaine / Beets / The tallgrass shuffles / The Devil's Triangle / The brain is not the United States / New technologies of reading / Please bury me in this / The five-pound burrito / Daddy dozens / Dr. J / Pluto's Gate : Mississippi / Forty-two / We would never sleep / Priest / Walk / Voltaire night / More than this / Narrator / 100 bells / Trash food / Thank you terror / The line agent Pascal / The Luoyang poem / The physics of turtles / Etta James at the Audubon Ballroom / A local's guide to dating in Slocomb County / Spiritual evaluation / Finders keepers / Hurricane song / Things I know to be true / Forgotten sound / After reading Peter Bichsel / Idyll / Fail again / I dream of horses eating cops / Midterm / The raptor / Resting place / The invitation / Hospice / Mistress Mickle all at sea / Laika / The Carnation Milk Palace / Cross your fingers God bless / The tradition / Blue of the world / Dritter Klasse ohne Fensterscheiben / Cleaning the ghost room / Safe home / Bloodlines
Henderson, Bill, 1941- editor.
Pushcart Press.
Dominica Phetteplace -- Eric Wilson -- Robert Wrigley -- Micah Stack -- Sally Wen Mao -- Paul Crenshaw -- Shelley Wong -- Charles Baxter -- Lia Purpura -- Shane McCrae -- Rebecca Makkai -- Stephen Dunn -- Jane Lancellotti -- Emily Skillings -- Monte Reel -- Adrian Matejka -- Vladislava Kolosova -- Martin Espada -- Doug Crandell -- David Tomas Martinez -- Liz Ziemska -- Alex Dimitrov -- Cate Hennessey -- Sea Sharp -- Emma Duffy-Comparone -- Elizabeth Scanlon -- Angela Woodward -- Allison Benis White -- T.C. Boyle -- Jamila Woods -- Kalpana Narayanan -- James Kimbrell -- Lisa Taddeo -- David Hernandez -- Erin McGraw -- Jane Springer -- Deb Olin Unferth -- David Kirby -- Elizabeth Tallent -- Tarfia Faizullah -- Chris Offutt -- Mathias Svalina -- Daniel Mason -- Ye Chun -- Jenny Hendrix -- Patricia Spears Jones -- Chris Drangle -- Taije Silverman -- Jenn Shapland -- Cecily Parks -- Kendra Fortmeyer -- Melissa Broder -- Lydia Davis -- Richie Hofmann -- David J. Unger -- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza -- Leslie Johnson -- Charles Holdefer -- Kate Levin -- Barry Lopez -- Jean Valentine -- Elizabeth McCracken -- Sara Batkie -- Melissa Pritchard -- Ron Currie Jr. -- Jericho Brown -- Douglas W. Milliken -- Steve Almond -- Tatiana Forero Puerta -- Daniel Peña -- Lauren Slater.
edited by Bill Henderson ; with the Pushcart prize editors.
2017
Pushcart prize XLI, 2017 : best of the small presses
[2021]
"A collection drawn from June Jordan's previous books"--
Book
9781556596209
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The essential June Jordan
From who look at me -- If you saw a negro lady -- Roman poem number thirteen -- I must become a menace to my enemies -- Poem about my rights -- A runaway li'l bit poem -- Poem at the midnight of my life -- Poem about process and progress -- Focus in real time -- It's hard to keep a clean shirt clean -- Last poem for a little while -- To be continued: -- Song of the law abiding citizen -- Letter to the local police -- Owed to Eminem -- The bombing of Baghdad -- Poem for Nana -- Ghazal at full moon -- Poem to take back the night -- To sing a song of Palestine -- First poem from Nicaragua libre: Teotecacinte -- Second poem from Nicaragua libre: war zone -- Third poem from Nicaragua libre: photograph of Managua -- Fourth poem from Nicaragua libre: report from the frontier -- A song of Sojourner Truth -- My sadness sits around me -- Getting down to get over -- Case in point -- Notes towards home -- Moving towards home -- A short note to my very critical and well-beloved friends and comrades -- Okay "negroes" -- What would I do white? -- May 27, 1971: no poem -- Grand army plaza -- On moral leadership as a political dilemma -- Home: January 29, 1984 -- Notes on the peanut -- Poem about police violence -- On the Black family -- Racial profile #3 -- 1978 -- A poem about intelligence for my brother and sisters -- "Haruko:" -- Poem on the death of Princess Diana -- Winter honey -- On a New Year's Eve -- 1977: poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer -- In the times of my heart -- The reception -- Poem for Mark -- Sunflower sonnet number two -- After all is said and done -- Shakespeare's 116th sonnet in Black English translation -- Exercise in quits -- "Why I became a pacifist" -- Poem for Siddhārtha Gautama of the Shākyas: the original Buddha -- Calling on all silent minorities -- Poem number two on Bell's theorem, or the new physicality of long distance love -- Memoranda toward the spring of seventy-nine -- Scenario revision #1 -- For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) -- Free flight -- Not looking -- On the spirit of Mildred Jordan -- Meta-rhetoric -- Poem for South African women -- July 4, 1984: for Buck -- Something like a sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley -- Poem about heartbreak that go on and on -- Poem for a young poet -- Democracy poem #1 -- Poem from taped testimony in the tradition of Bernhard Goetz -- On time tanka -- In defense of Christianity: sermon from the fount -- Poem on sexual hysteria and sexual hypocrisy -- Manifesto of the rubber gloves -- Kissing God goodbye -- These poems -- When I or else -- I guess it was my destiny to live so long -- Alla tha's all right, but --
Jordan, June, 1936-2002, author.
Levi, Jan Heller, editor.
Keller, Christoph, 1963- editor.
Brown, Jericho, writer of afterword.
edited by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller ; afterword by Jericho Brown.
2021
The essential June Jordan
[2020]
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an i
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9781598536669
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
Library of America ;
Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- The dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020
ONE: BURY ME IN A FREE LAND 1770-1899. On imagination ; On Recollection ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ; To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works ; To His Excellency General Washington / An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston / [Bars Fight] / A Mathematical Problem in Verse / To Eliza ; The Slave's Complaint ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The Art of a Poet ; George Moses Horton, Myself / An Appeal to Woman ; The Grave of the Slave / Concatination [Selected Pottery Verses, 1834-1862] / The Natives of America ; Reflections / Armand Lanusse: Epigram ; Camille Thierry Ideas ; Pierre Dalcour: Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle _____ ; Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and Devotion/ Les Cenelles -- America ; To Cinque / Hope and Confidence / A Life-Day / The Emigrant / Song for the First of August / A June Song ; A Parting Hymn ; In the earnest path of duty / Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Self-Mastery / from The Rape of Florida ; A Question / The Slave Mother ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read ; A Double Standard ; Songs for the People
TWO: LIFT EVERY VOICE 1900-1918. The House of Falling Leaves / Driftwood / America ; Character or Color--Which? ; Late Mother / Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Prayer ; And What Shall You Say? ; Supplication ; A Woman at Her Husband's Grave / Dr. Booker T Washington to the National Negro Business League / A Litany at Atlanta / We Wear the Mask ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; When de Co'n Pone's Hot ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Sympathy ; A Death Song ; Compensation / Violets ; I Sit and Sew ; The Proletariat Speaks / The Black Finger ; A Mona Lisa ; El Beso ; You ; Rosabel ; The Eyes of My Regret ; Trees ; Tenebris ; Grass Fingers ; To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Wooing ; A Spade Is Just a Spade ; Here and Hereafter / Retrospect / When I Die ; The Lonely Mother ; Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn? ; from African Nights / Lift Every Voice and Sing ; Sence You Went Away ; O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Go Down Death / from The Fledgling Poet and the Poetry Society / Ode to the Sun / To a Little Colored Boy / The New Negro
THREE: THE DARK TOWER 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ; Negro Woman ; Effigy / Heritage ; Lines written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas ; Fantasy ; To a Dark Carl ; Dirge for a Free Spirit ; I Build America ; Epitaph / The Return ; A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Southern Mansion ; The Day-breakers / Ma Rainey ; Old Lem ; Slim Greer ; Strange Legacies ; Southern Cop ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden ; Let Us Suppose / Portraiture ; Black Baby ; Impressions from a Family Album ; Coveted Epitaph ; Denial ; Idle Wonder / Longings ; Goal ; Farewell ; Having Had You ; Four Poems--After the Japanese ; For a New Mother ; I Look at Death / Yet Do I Marvel ; Incident ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Heritage ; from Epitaphs ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / No Images ; Nineteen-twenty-nine ; My Lord, What a Morning ; Down-Home Boy ; Carry Me Back / The Mask ; Solace / Dead Fires ; La Vie C'est la vie ; Oblivion / My Last Name / Notes Found Near a Suicide / The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to son ; Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret ; Beale Street Love ; Cross ; Personal ; Midwinter Blues ; Bound No'th Blues ; Dream Variations ; I, Too ; Song for a Dark Girl ; Let America be America Again ; from Montage of a Dream Deferred ; Madam and the Rent Man ; from Ask Your Mama / The Singer ; The Maestro / The Heart of a Woman ; Cosmopolite ; Black Woman ; Old Black Men ; Common Dust ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Interracial / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem ; Invocation / Jamaica Market / Christmas in de Air ; The Harlem Dancer ; Harlem Shadows ; If We Must Die ; On Broadway ; The Tropics in New York ; The Lynching ; America ; My Mother ; "The white man is a tiger at my throat" / Man and Maid / Shadow / Requiem ; This Is My Vow / October Prayer ; Flag Salute / Black and Blue ; The Tree of Hope / At the Carnival ; White Things ; Sybil Warns Her Sister / Five Vignettes ; Her Lips Are Copper Wire ; from Cane ; from Essentials ; Be with Me
FOUR: BALLADS OF REMEMBRANCE 1936-1959. To Satch (American Gothic) ; Nat Turner or Let Him Come ; If the Stars Should Fall / Narrative ; Night and a Distant Church ; It's Here in The ; Spyrytual / from A Street in Bronzeville ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; The Bean Eater ; We Real Cool ; A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon ; The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till ; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock ; The Lovers of the Poor ; Malcolm X ; The Second Sermon on the Warpland ; Paul Robeson ; The Life of Lincoln West ; The Boy Died in My Alley ; Infirm ; I Am a Black ; An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct / To Julia de Burgos ; Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress ; Poem of the Unborn Child ; Farewell in Welfare Island ; The Sun in Welfare Island / The Small Bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's Attic / from Ebony Under Granite ; Mojo Mike's Beer Garden ; Four Glimpses of Night / Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One ; The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Six Little Black Davids Tapped Danced Unto / Those Winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle Passage ; Runagate Runagate ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; [American Journal] / The Truth ; Jazz Is My Religion ; The Nice Colored Man / Hawk Lawler: Chorus ; I, Too, Know What I Am Not ; Would You Wear My Eyes? ; War Memoir ; Walking Parker Home ; Crootey Songo ; Heavy Water Blues ; Blues for Hal Waters ; Oregon / from Dark Testament ; Prophecy / A Private Letter to Brazil ; Review from Staten Island ; Man White, Brown Girl and All That Jazz / Young Poet / Harlem Dawn ; A Definition ; Jean-Jaques / Booker T. and W.E.B. ; An Answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire On a Name for Black Americans ; A Poet Is Not a Jukebox / Ballad of American Mores ; Face of Poverty / Dark Symphony ; from Harlem Gallery, Book I: The Curator / For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Between the World and Me ; Selected Haiku
FIVE: IDEAS OF ANCESTRY 1959-1975. Still I Rise ; Phenomenal Woman / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ; Notes for a Speech ; The Liar ; Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; SOS ; Black Art ; Why's 12 / King: April 4, 1968 / Blues ; All God's Chillun ; The White River ; Sam Lord / "in the inner city" ; miss rosie ; good times ; admonitions ; "being property once myself" ; the lost baby poem ; from some jesus ; cutting greens ; homage to my hips ; "the light that came to lucille clifton" ; jasper texas 1998 ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; "i am accused of tending to the past" ; Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ; study the masters ; to my last period ; wishes for sons ; "surely i am able to write poems" ; "won't you celebrate with me" / How Long Has Trane Been Gone ; Orisha ; Rape ; Jazz Fan Looks Back / Son of Msippi ; Black Star Line ; Outer Space Blues / I Am a Black Woman / I Would Be for You Rain / High on the Hog / Black Power ; Nikki-Rosa ; For Saundra ; Ego Tripping ; A Poem for Carol ; Legacies / American History ; Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; Reuben, Reuben ; Tongue-Tied in Black and White ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass / Do Nothing till You Hear from Me ; A Coltrane Memorial / Medicine Man / What Would I Do White? ; These Poems ; I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies ; Poem about My Rights ; Poem for Haruko / Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself ; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers / A Poem for Myself ; The Idea of Ancestry ; The Bones of My Father ; Haiku ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; The Violent Space ; Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; For Eric Dolphy ; Feeling Fucked Up / On Being Head of the English Department / Coal ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change ; A Litany for Survival ; Power ; Lunar Eclipse ; Inheritance--His / But He Was Cool ; Don't Cry, Scream / Swallow the Lake ; Hair / Malcolm X--An Autobiography ; Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat / 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man / Howlin Wolf ; Big Maybelle / Beware: Do Not Read This Poem ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; The Reactionary Poet / sonnet ; poll ; the poor houses ; othello jones dresses for dinner ; American Jazz Quartet / how i got ovah / for our lady ; A Poem for My Father ; A poem for my brother ; from Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ; haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ; haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ; two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ; tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ; haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ; haiku ("man. you write me so") ; tanka ("like dark old men the") ; haiku ("like ermine when i") ; haiku ("i want to make you") ; blues ; Song No. 2 / Whitey on the Moon ; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ; Home Is Where the Hatred Is / After Vallejo / Inauguration ; Song / One for Charlie Mingus ; Poem for My Father ; After Hearing a Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions / A Far Cry from Africa ; Codicil ; Blues ; from The Schooner Flight ; Sea Canes ; Volcano ; Easter ; from Omeros: Chapter VIII / Women / blues for franks wooten ; from Maumau American Cantos: Canto 4 / How Stars Start ; Dance of the Infidels ; Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ; The Old O.O. Blues ; A Poem for Players
SIX: BLUE LIGHT SUTRAS 1976-1989. Twenty-Year Marriage ; I Can't Get Started ; Two Brothers ; The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 / from Haiti / Titta / Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ; Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson / from Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra / What It Means to Be Dark ; Mastectomy ; from American Sonnets / Harriet in the Promised Land / Blackbottom ; The Weakness ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Black Boys Play the Classics / Leaving Eden ; from The Arcanum Poems ; Father / Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves ; Turning Forty in the 90's ; Wednesday Mourning ; Heartbeats / The House Slave ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; Adolescence--II ; Banneker ; from Thomas and Beulah ; Canary ; The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ; Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ; from Sonata Mulattica / The Dance ; The Supremes ; from Brutal Imagination / Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989 ; Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate / Some Pieces ; Hand Me Down Blues ; Dark Mirror / This Bridge Across ; Time with Stevie Wonder in It ; Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation / Vernacular Examples ; Palaver ; Sotto Voce / For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) ; For Claude McKay / Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ; Goldsboro Narrative #28 ; Goldsboro Narrative #33 ; Goldsboro Narrative #7 ; Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son / Heavy Corners ; Civil Servant ; For My Own Protection / "C"ing in Colors: Blue / Surplus Future Imperfect ; Woman, with wings ; Should you find me / Deep Song / i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ / from The Women of Plums / Annabelle ; More Girl Than Boy ; Letter to Bob Kaufman ; Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel ; February in Sydney ; from Dien Cai Dau ; Venus's-flytraps ; My Father's Love Letters ; Anodyne ; Ode to the Maggot / Falso Brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 / Gra'ma ; Try to Understand Papa ; Throwing Stones at the All White Pool ; Fade to Black / Life in a Sterile Environment: A Case Study ; The Day before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ; A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; An Anointing ; Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida ; The Lynching / from Muse & Drudge ; from Sleeping with the Dictionary / A Strange Beautiful Woman ; Sleepless Nights ; Lonely Eagles ; Star-Fix / How I Became the Blues / The Broken English Dream / The Black Back-Ups / All the Way Home ; from Dreamer / Trying for Fire / from for colored girls who have considered suicide / Building Nicole's Mama ; Don't Drink the Water / from Free! / Inside the Blues Whale ; Scrapple ; Washing the car with My Father ; John Henry Sleeping in High Grass / from Letters to a New England Negro
SEVEN: PRAISE SONGS FOR THE DAY 1990-2008. Blue ; The New Religion / The Venus Hottentot ; Nineteen ; Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder ; Ars Poetica #100: I Believe ; Praise Song for the Day / loose strife ; Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire / Verbal Mugging / Prayer of the Backhanded ; Bullet Points ; 'N'em ; Another Elegy ; The Tradition / A Balance of Blues & Angels / nap-i-ness / Natural ; Black Funk / Wednesday Poem / Frequently Asked Questions #10 / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding ; Salt / burial ; A Small Needful Fact / Santa Ana of Grocery Carts ; Teeth ; Ode to the Little "r" / Seeing the Body / Black Mary Integrates the School House / Touch ; Satchmo Returns to New Orleans ; The Golden Shovel ; Carp Poem / How to Listen ; Euphoria ; Ferguson / The Gospel of Barbecue / Charity on Blind Tom ; General Bethune on Blind Tom ; Blind Boone's Vision ; Minnehaha / Jesse Owens, 1963 ; Rope / Thirty Lines About the Fro ; My Father's Kites / Drop it Like It's Hottento Venus / Hostage / Plantation ; from Voyage of the Sable Venus ; "Lucy Terry Prince Prepares for Her Marriage" / Ode to the Diasporican / from Good Stock Strange Blood / from The Big Smoke ; Robot Music / What the Oracle Said / The Keepin' It Real Awards / Blackout 1977 / gayl jones ; cecil taylor ; johnny cash ; I ran from it but was still in it / On Confessionalism / Written by Himself ; Raisin / Bembe-Faced ; Arroz con Son y Clave / Blue ; Cotillion ; A Great Noise ; Speak Low / I want to not have to write another word about who cops keep killing / from Citizen: An American Lyric / The Difficult Music ; The Lucky One ; Hesitation Theory ; My Mother Was No White Dove / from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; ode to my blackness / Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? ; The Universe Is a House Party ; Declaration / Offering ; Snow / Ode to Gentrification / Flounder ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Graveyard Blues ; Pilgrimage ; Miscegenation ; Incident / Strip ; RR Lyrae: Matter / Wind Talker ; Work Ethic / Dissidence ; Gwendolyn Brooks / "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" / Amethyst Rocks / Money Road
EIGHT: AFTER THE HURRICANE 2009-2020. How Can Black People Write about Flowers at a Time Like This / La Negra Takes Medusa to the Hair Salon / Cento Between the Ending and the End / America Will Be / A Postmodern Two-Step / upon viewing the death of basquiat / Massa's House / Nashville / Dear _____, / My First Black Nature Poem(TM) / I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store / Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas / (Afterward) One Corner More / After the Hurricane / Kansas / Kudzu / The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings / One Country / Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face / Closer / #sayhername / The President's Wife / Violins / History / Black Can Sleep / Children Listen / Why Is We Americans / Object Permanence / Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Fisherman's Daughter / dinosaurs in the hood / Your National Anthem / Prayer / Ode to Herb Kent
Young, Kevin, 1970- editor.
by Kevin Young --
Phillis Wheatley -- Jupiter Hammon -- Lucy Terry -- Benjamin Banneker -- George Moses Horton -- Sarah Louisa Forten -- David Drake -- Ann Plato -- James M. Whitfield -- Charles L. Reason -- George B. Vashon -- Benjamin Clark -- James Madison Bell -- Charlotte Forten Grimḱe -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- Albery A. Whitman -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
William Stanley Braithwaite -- Olivia Ward Bush -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- James D. Corrothers -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Walter Everette Hawkins -- Josephine D. Heard -- Fenton Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- George R. Margetson -- Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Priscilla Jane Thompson -- Lucian B. Watkins.
Lewis Grandison Alexander -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Arna Bontemps -- Sterling A. Brown -- Anita Scott Coleman -- Mae V. Cowdery -- Countee Cullen -- Waring Cuney -- Clarissa Scott Delany -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Nicolas Guillen -- Frank Horne -- Langston Hughes -- Eva A. Jessye -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Helene Johnson -- Agnes Maxwell-Hall -- Claude McKay -- Myra Estelle Morris -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- Lucia Mae Pitts -- Esther Popel -- Andy Razaf -- Anne Spencer -- Jean Toomer.
Samuel Allen -- Russell Atkins -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Julia de Burgos -- Margaret Danner -- Frank Marshall Davis -- Owen Dodson -- Robert Hayden -- Ted Joans -- Bob Kaufman -- Pauli Murray -- Gloria C. Oden -- Myron O'Higgins -- Oliver Pitcher -- Dudley Randall -- Lucy E. Smith -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Margaret Walker -- Richard Wright.
Maya Angelou -- Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- Gerald Barrax -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Lucille Clifton -- Jayne Cortez -- Henry Dumas -- Mari Evans -- Sarah Webster Fabio -- Julia Fields -- Nikki Giovanni -- Michael S. Harper -- David Henderson -- Calvin Hernton -- June Jordan -- Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Etheridge Knight -- PInkie Gordon Lane -- Audre Lorde -- Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Clarence Major -- Larry Neal -- Raymond R. Patterson -- Sterling D. Plumpp ; From Where the Blues? ; "WE NEED" ; " ; Metagnomy / N. H. Pritchard -- Ishmael Reed -- Ed Roberson -- Carolyn Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Gil Scott-Heron -- A. B. Spellman -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Quincy Troupe -- Derek Walcott -- Alice Walker -- Tom Weatherly -- Al Young.
AI -- Will Alexander -- George Barlow -- Cyrus Cassells -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Wanda Coleman -- Sam Cornish -- Toi Derricotte -- Ralph Dickey -- Melvin Dixon -- Rita Dove -- Cornelius Eady -- Nikky Finney -- Calvin Forbes -- Christopher Gilbert -- C. S. Giscombe -- Lorna Goodison -- Forrest Hamer -- Essex Hemphill -- Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Erica Hunt -- Gayl Jones -- Patricia Spears Jones -- Sybil Kein -- Dolores Kendrick -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Colleen J. McElroy -- Thylias Moss -- Harryette Mullen -- Marilyn Nelson -- Brenda Marie Osbey -- Pedro Pietri -- Kate Rushin -- Primus St. John -- Tim Seibles -- when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Patricia Smith -- Sekou Sundiata -- Afaa Michael Weaver -- Sherley Anne Williams.
Chris Abani -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Quan Barry -- Paul Beatty -- Jericho Brown -- Darrell Burton -- Kyle Dargan -- Kwame Dawes -- Joel Dias-Porter -- Camille Dungy -- Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Vievee Francis -- Ross Gay -- Aracelis Girmay -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Duriel E. Harris -- Terrance Hayes -- Major Jackson -- Honorée Fannone Jeffers -- Tyehimba Jess -- A. Van Jordan -- Allison Joseph -- Douglas Kearney -- Daniell Legros Georges -- Robin Coste Lewis -- Mariposa -- Dawn Lundy Martin -- Adrian Matejka -- Shara mcCallum -- Tony Medina -- Tracie Morris -- Fred Moten -- John Murillo -- Gregory Pardlo -- Willie Perdomo -- Carl Phillips -- Khadijah Queen -- Claudia Rankine -- Reginald Shepherd -- Evie Shockley -- Tracy K. Smith -- Sharan Strange -- Samantha Thornhill -- Natasha Trethewey -- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- Frank X. Walker -- Anthony Walton -- Simone White -- Saul Williams -- Kevin Young.
Hanif Abdurraqib -- Elizabeth Acevedo -- Cameron Awkward-Rich -- Joshua Bennett -- Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Mahogany L. Browne -- Dominique Christina -- Tiana Clark -- DeLana R. A. Dameron -- LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs -- Eve L. Ewing -- Sean Hill -- Notes on a Letter to the Singer Abbey Lincoln from Her Lover, Abraham Lincoln / Harmony Holiday -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Gary Jackson -- Saeed Jones -- Donika Kelly -- Rickey Laurentiis -- Shane McCrae -- Anis Mojgani -- Aja Monet -- Morgan Parker -- Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Camille Rankine -- Justin Phillip Reed -- Roger Reeves -- Alison C. Rollins -- Nicole Sealey -- Charif Shanahan -- Safiya Sinclair -- Danez Smith -- Clint Smith -- Phillip B. Williams -- Jamila Woods.
Kevin Young, editor.
2020
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
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