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VOLUME 1 Yellow Dog Blues [To the Publick]

St. Louis Blues To Mcenas
Beginnings Through the Beale Street Blues To the University of Cambridge, in
The Hesitating Blues New-England
Harlem Renaissance Goin to Chicago Blues On Being Brought from Africa to America
Fine and Mellow On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George
Preface
Hoochie Coochie Whitefield 1770
Acknowledgments
Sunnyland To the Right Honourable William, Earl of
Introduction: Talking Books
My Handy Man Dartmouth, His Majestys Principal
Secretary of State for North-America,
THE VERNACULAR TRADITION, FOLKTALES Etc.
PART 1 All Gods Chillen Had Wings On Imagination
Introduction Big Talk To S.M., a Young African Painter, on
Deer Hunting Story Seeing His Works
SPIRITUALS How to Write a Letter To Samson Occom
City Called Heaven Member Youse a Nigger To His Excellency General Washington
I Know Moon-Rise Ahll Beatcher Makin Money
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest DAVID WALKER (17851830)
Im a-Rollin De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard David Walkers Appeal in Four Articles;
Go Down, Moses The Ventriloquist Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured
Been in the Storm So Long You Talk Too Much, Anyhow Citizens of the World
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot A Flying Fool Preamble
Steal Away to Jesus Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again Article I. Our Wretchedness in
Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel? The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Consequence of Slavery
Gods a-Gonna Trouble the Water How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
Soon I Will Be Done The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf GEORGE MOSES HORTON (b. 1797?)
Come Sunday What the Rabbit Learned The Lovers Farewell
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman
SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS THE LITERATURE OF SLAVERY to Purchase the Poets Freedom
[We raise de wheat] AND FREEDOM, 17461865 Division of an Estate
Me and My Captain George Moses Horton, Myself
Promises of Freedom Introduction
No More Auction Block SOJOURNER TRUTH (17971883)
Jack and Dinah Want Freedom JUPITER HAMMON (17111790/1806) Arnt I a Woman?
Run, Nigger, Run An Evening Thought From Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851
Another Man Done Gone An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878
You May Go But This Will Bring You Back
VENTURE SMITH (1729?1805) MARIA W. STEWART (18031879)
BALLADS A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality,
John Henry Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident the Sure Foundation on Which We Must
Frankie and Johnny above Sixty Years in the United States of Build
Railroad Bill America Introduction
The Signifying Monkey Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall,
Stackolee LUCY TERRY (ca. 17241821) Boston, September 21, 1832
Sinking of the Titanic Bars Fight
Shine and the Titanic MARTIN R. DELANY (18121885)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO (ca. 17451797) The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and
WORK SONGS The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Destiny of the Colored People of the United
Pick a Bale of Cotton Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the States
Go Down, Old Hannah African, Written by Himself Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in
Cant You Line It? Volume I Europe Considered
Chapter I Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the
THE BLUES Chapter II Colored People of the United States
Good Morning Blues Chapter III Chapter V. Means of Elevation
Hellhound on My Trail Chapter IV Chapter XXIII. Things as They Are
C.C. Rider Chapter XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves
Backwater Blues PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?1784) Conclusion
Down-Hearted Blues Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and
Prove It on Me Blues Moral
Trouble in Mind Preface
How Long Blues [Letter Sent by the Authors Master to
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HARRIET JACOBS (ca. 18131897) JAMES M. WHITFIELD (18221871) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (18561915)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl America Up From Slavery
Preface Self-Reliance Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves
I. Childhood Chapter II. Boyhood Days
II. The New Master and Mistress WILLIAM CRAFT (18241900) Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education
V. The Trials of Girlhood Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition
X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girls Life Address
XII. Fear of Insurrection FRANCES E.W. HARPER (18251911)
XIV. Another Link to Life Ethiopia CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (18581932)
XVII. The Flight Eliza Harris The Goophered Grapevine
XXI. The Loophole of Retreat The Slave Mother The Passing of Grandison
XXIX. Preparations for Escape Vashti The Wife of His Youth
XXXIX. The Confession Bury Me in a Free Land Daves Neckliss
XL. The Fugitive Slave Law Aunt Chloe's Politics
XLI. Free at Last Learning to Read ANNA JULIA COOPER (1858?1964)
A Double Standard Womanhood a Vital Element in the
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (1814?1884) Songs for the People Regeneration and Progress of Race
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive An Appeal to My Country Women
Slave The Two Offers PAULINE E. HOPKINS (18591930)
Chapter V Our Greatest Want Talma Gordon
From Chapter VI Fancy Etchings Bror Abrm Jimsons Wedding
Clotel; or, The Presidents Daughter [Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations] Famous Men of the Negro Race
Chapter I. The Negro Sale Woman's Political Future Booker T. Washington
Chapter II. Going to the South Famous Women of the Negro Race
Chapter IV. The Quadroons Home THERESA: A HAYTIEN TALE V. Literary Workers (Concluded)
Chapter XV. To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline
a Slave HARRIET E. WILSON (18251900) Hopkins's Reply (March 1903)
Chapter XIX. Escape of Clotel Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free
Black, in a Two-Story White House, North IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT (18621931)
HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET (18151882) Preface A Red Record
An Address to the Slaves of the United States Chapter I. Mag Smith, My Mother Chapter I. The Case Stated
of America Chapter II. My Father's Death Chapter X. The Remedy
Chapter III. A New Home for Me
VICTOR SJOUR (18171874) Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure W.E.B. DU BOIS (18681963)
The Mulatto Chapter X. PerplexitiesAnother Death A Litany of Atlanta
Chapter XII. The Winding Up of the Matter The Song of the Smoke
ELIZABETH KECKLEY (ca. 18181907) The Souls of Black Folk
Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave HANNAH CRAFTS (Hannah Bond) The Forethought
and Four Years in the White House (b. 1826?) I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Chapter I. Where I Was Born The Bondwomans Narrative III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and
Chapter II. Girlhood and Its Sorrows From Chapter 1 [Learning to Read] Others
Chapter III. How I Gained My Freedom From Chapter 12 [A New Mistress] IV. Of the Meaning of Progress
Chapter IV. In the Family of Senator From Chapter 13 [The Beautifying V. Of the Wings of Atalanta
Jefferson Davis Powder] VI. Of the Training of Black Men
From Chapter 21 [Freedom] X. Of the Faith of the Fathers
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (18181895) XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
XII. Of Alexander Crummell
American Slave, Written by Himself LITERATURE OF THE XIII. Of the Coming of John
My Bondage and My Freedom RECONSTRUCTION TO THE XIV. The Sorrow Songs
Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the
Abolitionists
NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE, The After-Thought
18651919 The Damnation of Women
Chapter XXIV. Twenty-One Months in
Criteria of Negro Art
Great Britain Introduction
From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
JAMES D. CORROTHERS (18691917)
An Address Delivered in Rochester,
NICHOLAS SAID (ca. 18361882) Me n Dunbar
New York, on 5 July 1852
A Native of Bornoo Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Second Part,Chapter XV. Weighed in the
CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMK (18371914)
Balance
A Parting Hymn
Third Part, Chapter 1. Later Life
Journals
From Journal One
From Journal Three
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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (18711938) ANGELINA WELD GRIMK (18801958) NELLA LARSEN (18931964)
Sence You Went Away A Winter Twilight Passing
Lift Evry Voice and Sing The Black Finger
O Black and Unknown Bards When the Green Lies over the Earth JEAN TOOMER (18941967)
Fifty Years Tenebris
Cane
Brothers
The Creation ANNE SPENCER (18821975) GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER (18951977)
My City Before the Feast of Shushan The Negro-Art Hokum
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The Wife-Woman Black No More
The Book of American Negro PoetryPreface Chapter 1
HUBERT HARRISON (18831927) Chapter 2
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (18721906) TheEast Louisville Horror
Ode to Ethiopia Two Negro Radicalisms RUDOLPH FISHER (18971934)
Worn Out The City of Refuge
A Negro Love Song JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (ca. 18841961)
The Colored Soldiers Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral ERIC WOLROND (18981966)
An Ante-Bellum Sermon From Home The Wharf Rats
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Chapter I [Black Philadelphia]
Weary Eyes PAUL ROBESON (18981976)

Not They Who Soar ALAIN LOCKE (18861954) I Want to Be African

When Malindy Sings From Apropos of Africa

We Wear the Mask The New Negro MARITA BONNER (18991971)
Little Brown Baby On Being Younga Womanand Colored
Her Thought and His GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (18861966)
A Cabin Tale The Heart of a Woman STERLING A. BROWN (19011989)
Sympathy I Want to Die While You Love Me Odyssey of Big Boy
Dinah Kneading Dough When de Saints Go Maching Home

The Haunted Oak MARCUS GARVEY (18871940) Long Gone

Douglass Africa for the Africans Southern Road
Philosophy The Future as I See It Strong Men
Black Samson of Brandywine Memphis Blues
The Poet REN MARAN (18871960) Slim Greer
The Fourth of July and Race Outrages Batouala Slim in Atlanta
Preface Ma Rainey
ALICE MOORE DUNBAR NELSON From Chapter I Cabaret
(18751935) Break of Day

Violets CLAUDE McKAY (18891948) Sam Smiley

I Sit and Sew The Harlem Dancer

April Is on the Way Harlem Shadows GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT (19021981)

Violets If We Must Die Heritage
To the White Fiends To a Dark Girl
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Africa
(18781962) America WALLACE THURMAN (19021934)
The Watchers The White House Infants of the Spring
The House of Falling Leaves Outcast Chapter XXI [Harlem Salon]
Sic Vita Home to Harlem
Chapter XVII. He Also Loved LANGSTON HUGHES (19021967)
FENTON JOHNSON (18881958) Banjo The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Tired Chapter VI. Meeting Up Mother to Son
The Scarlet Woman From Chapter XVI. The Blue Cinema Danse Africaine
Jazzonia
HARLEM RENAISSANCE, ZORA NEALE HURSTON (18911960) Dream Variations
Sweat The Weary Blues
19191940
How It Feels to Be Colored Me I, Too
Introduction The Gilded Six-Bits Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
Characteristics of Negro Expression Johannesburg Mines
ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG (18741938) Mules and Men Homesick Blues
The Negro Digs Up His Past [Negro Folklore] Mulatto
Their Eyes Were Watching God Red Silk Stockings
Chapter 1 [The Return] Song for a Dark Girl
Chapter 2 [Pear Tree] Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover
Dear Lovely Death
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Afro-American Fragment VOLUME 2 SERMONS AND PRAYERS

Negro Servant GOD
Christ in Alabama Realism, Naturalism, James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer
Cubes C.L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest
Ballad of the Landlord
Modernism to the Present Howard Thurman: O God, I Need Thee
Madam and the Rent Man G.I. Townsel: The Way Out Is to Pray Out
Preface
Trumpet Player Martin Luther King Jr.
Acknowledgments
Song for Billie Holiday I Have a Dream
Introduction: Talking Books
Dream Boogie Ive Been to the Mountaintop
Harlem (2) Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet
Motto THE VERNACULAR TRADITION, Bert Williams: Elder Eatmores Sermon
Theme for English B on Generosity
PART 2
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
The Big Sea Introduction REALISM, NATURALISM,
When the Negro Was in Vogue MODERNISM, 19401960
Harlem Literati GOSPEL
Downtown The Little Light of Mine Introduction
Bop Down by the Riverside
Freedom in the Air MELVIN B. TOLSON (1900?1966)
NICOLS GUILLN (19021989) Take My Hand, Precious Lord Dark Symphony
Little
Ode Peace Be Still The Birth of John Henry
My Last Name Stand by Me Satchmo

COUNTEE CULLEN (19031946) SONGS OF SOCIAL CHANGE DOROTHY WEST (19071998)

Yet Do I Marvel Oh, Freedom The Living Is Easy
Tableau Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round Part One
Incident Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit Chapter 1 [Cleo]
Saturday's Child We Shall Overcome
The Shroud of Color Langston Hughes: Backlash Blues RICHARD WRIGHT (19081960)
Heritage Nina Simone: Four Women Blueprint for Negro Writing
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an
From the Dark Tower JAZZ Autobiographical Sketch
Duke Ellington: It Dont Mean a Thing (If It Black Boy
RICHARD BRUCE NUGENT (19061987) Aint Got That Swing) Chapter XIII [Booklist]
Smoke, Lillies, and Jade Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black Chapter XVI [Chicago]
and Blue Tradition and Industrialization:The Plight of

HELENE JOHNSON (19071995) King Pleasure: Parkers Mood the Tragic Elite in Africa
Poem
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem RHYTHM AND BLUES CHESTER B. HIMES (19091984)
Invocation Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come Cotton Gonna Kill Me Yet

Smokey Robinson et al.: The Tracks of My

Timeline Tears ANN PETRY (19111997)
Selected Bibliographies Marvin Gaye et al.: Dancin in the Street The Street
Index Otis Redding: Respect Chapter I [The Apartment]
Marvin Gaye: Whats Goin On?
Stevie Wonder: Living for the City ALICE CHILDRESS
Curtis Mayfield: Were a Winner Trouble in Mind

HIP HOP ROBERT HAYDEN (19131982)

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be The Diver
Televised Homage to the Empress of the Blues
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Middle Passage
Message Those Winter Sundays
Public Enemy: Dont Believe the Hype O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do Runagate Runagate
Eric B. & Rakim: I Aint No Joke Frederick Douglass
Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.): Things A Ballad of Remembrance
Done Changed Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
Nas: N.Y. State of Mind Soledad
Jay-Z: Song Cry El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
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RALPH ELLISON (19141994) MALCOLM X (EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ) SONIA SANCHEZ (b. 1934)
Richard Wright's Blues (19251965) homecoming
Invisible Man The Autobiography of Malcolm X poem at thirty
Prologue From Chapter One. Nightmare Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict
Chapter 1 [Battle Royal] From Chapter Four. Laura. Blk/Rhetoric
Epilogue From Chapter Six. Detroit Red Sister Son/ji
Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke From Chapter Eleven. Saved A/Coltrane/Poem
The World and the Jug From Chapter Nineteen. 1965 TCB
Remembering Richard Wright A Poem for My Brother
JOHN ALFRED WILLIAMS (b. 1925)
MARGARET WALKER (19151998) The Man Who Cried I Am ED BULLINS (b. 1935)
For My People 3 [Picture of the Writer] Claras Ole Man
Poppa Chicken
For Malcolm X MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (19291968) ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (19351998)
Prophets for a New Day Letter from Birmingham Jail Soul on Ice
Convalescence
RAYMOND PATTERSON (1930?2001)
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (19172000)
Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Blackman
kitchenette building B. SPELLMAN (b. 1935)
the mother Did Johns Music Kill Him?
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (19311985)
a song in the front yard
The Idea of Ancestry
Sadie and Maud JUNE JORDAN (19362002)
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the
the vacant lot Hospital In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon for the Criminal Insane
Gettin Down to Get Over
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith Ilu, the Talking Drum
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones:
The Rites for Cousin Vit Poem # 1
The Children of the Poor ADRIENNE KENNEDY (b. 1931) Poem about Police Violence
The Lovers of the Poor Funnyhouse of a Negro Poem for South African Women
We Real Cool Poem about My Rights
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little CALVIN HERNTON (19322001)
Rock Jitterbugging
in the Streets JAYNE CORTEZ (b. 1936)
Malcolm X How Long Has Trane Been Gone
Riot AUDRE LORDE (19341992)
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. New York City 1970 LARRY NEAL (19371981)
Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Coal Harlem Gallery: From the Inside
Bacon Power Dont Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat

Maud Martha Poetry Is Not a Luxury Malcolm XAn Autobiography

125th and Abomey The Black Arts Movement
JAMES BALDWIN (19241987) Walking Our Boundaries Some Reflections on the Black Aesthetic
Everybody's Protest Novel Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Uncle Rufus Raps on the SquareCircle
Notes of a Native Son Epilogue
Sonny's Blues InheritanceHis ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)
Princes and Powers The Ghost in Birmingham
Going to Meet the Man HENRY DUMAS (19351968) I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Black Star Line Beware: Do Not Read This Poem
BOB KAUFMAN (19251986) Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Neo-HooDoo Manifesto
The Zebra Goes Wild Where the Sidewalk
Jail Poems Mumbo Jumbo
Ends Chapter I
LORRAINE HANSBERRY (19301965) From Chapter II
AMIRI BARAKA (b. 1934)
A Raisin in the Sun Epilogue
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Notes for a Speech
THE BLACK ARTS ERA, A Poem for Willie Best
MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)
19601975 Dear John, Dear Coltrane
BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS
Trays: A Portfolio
Introduction Dutchman History as Apple Tree
The Revolutionary Theatre
Psychophotos of Hampton
Prologue to The Slave
MARI EVANS
Vive Noir!
A Poem for Black Hearts
Ka Ba
TONI CADE BAMBARA (19391995)
Gorilla, My Love
Slave Ship
Black Art From The Salt Eaters
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HAKI R. MADHUBUTI (b. 1942) TONI MORRISON (b. 1931) CHARLES JOHNSON (b. 1948)
Introduction [to Think Black] Sula The Education of Mingo
Two Poems Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation
Gwendolyn Brooks The Site of Memory NTOZAKE SHANGE (b. 1948)
Dont Cry, Scream Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro- From For colored girls who have considered
Move Un-Noticed to Be Noticed: American Presence in American Literature suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
A Nationhood Poem Nappy Edges
Killing Memory ERNEST J. GAINES (b. 1933) Bocas: A Daughters Geography
The Sky Is Gray
DAVIDHENDERSON (b. 1942) GAYL JONES (b. 1949)
Keep
On Pushing (Harlem Riots/ LUCILLE CLIFTON (19362010) From Corregidora
Summer/1964) in the inner city
good times
JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949)
NIKKI GIOVANNI (b. 1943) malcolm Annie John
For Saundra homage to my hips Chapter Two. The Circling Hand
what the mirror said
Beautiful Black Men
[the light that came to lucille clifton]
Nikki-Rosa EDWARD P. JONES (b. 1950)
blessing the boats
Revolutionary Music The Girl Who Raised Pigeons
study the
All I Gotta Do
Ego Tripping
masters GLORIA NAYLOR (b. 1950)
The Women of Brewster Place
JAMES ALAN McPHERSON (b. 1943) JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN (b. 1941) The Two
Problems of Art
Brothers and Keepers
[Robby's Version] RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
CAROLYN M. RODGERS (b. 1945) Damballah David Walker (17851830)
For Sistuhs Wearin Straight Hair Parsley
The Last M.F. SAMUEL R. DELANY (b. 1942) Receiving the Stigmata
Poem for Some Black Women Atlantis: Model 1924 Thomas and Beulah
U Name This One The Event
I Have Been Hungry SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS (19441999) Motherhood
The Peacock Poems: 1 Daystar
AMOS MOR (b. 1949) I Want Aretha to Set This to Music The Oriental Ballerina
Poem to the Hip Generation Tell Martha Not to Moan Pastoral
American Smooth
JAMES T. STEWART (?1996) ALICE WALKER (b. 1944) The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe
The Development of the Black Revolutionary Women Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove
Artist Outcast
Good Night, Willie Lee, Ill See You in the
WALTER MOSLEY (b. 1952)
THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD Morning
Equal Opportunity
Introduction In Search of Our Mothers Gardens
Everyday Use
HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)
ALBERT MURRAY (19162013) Advancing Lunaand Ida B. Wells
Muse & Drudge
Train Whistle Guitar [Sapphire's lyre styles]
[History Lessons] AUGUST WILSON (19452005)
[country clothes hung on her all and
Joe Turner's Come and Gone sundry]
MAYA ANGELOU (b. 1928) [odds meeting on a bus]
Still I Rise OCTAVIA BUTLER (19472006) [why these blues come from us]
My Arkansas Bloodchild [go on sister sing your song]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [tomboy girl with cowboy boots]
Chapter 15 [Mrs. Flowers] YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947) [sauce squandering sassy cook]
Chapter 16 [Mam] February in Sydney [marry at a hotel, annul em]
PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929) Facing It [precious cargo up crooked alleys]
Reena Sunday Afternoons [with all that rope they gave us]
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam Banking Potatoes [the royal yellow sovereign]
The Making of a Writer: From the Poets in the Birds on a Powerline [tom-tom can't catch]
Kitchen
[massa had a yeller]
NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947) [cough drops prick thick]
Falso Brilhante [ain't cut drylongso]
Song of the Andoumboulou: 8 [soulless divaism]
Djbot Baghostus's Run [moon, whoever knew you]
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ESSEX HEMPHILL (19571995) EDWIDGE DANTICAT (b. 1969)

Conditions Breath, Eyes, Memory
XXI Chapter 1
XXII Chapter 35
XXIV
COLSON WHITEHEAD (b. 1969)
CARYL PHILLIPS (b. 1958) John Henry Days
Crossing the River [1]
II. West [2]
[3]
BARACK OBAMA (b. 1961)
A More Perfect Union KEVIN YOUNG (b. 1970)
Langston Hughes
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER (b. 1962) Jook
The Venus Hottentot Anthem
When Exodus
Ars Poetic 100: I Believe
TRACY K. SMITH (b. 1972)
SUZAN-LORI PARKS (b. 1963) Sci-Fi

Topdog/Underdog My God, Its Full of Stars

NATASHA TRETHEWEY (b. 1966) Timeline

Liturgy Selected Bibliographies
Witness Index
Tower
Watcher
Believer
Prodigal

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