Anthologies of African American Writing

Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology

"Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology" . Ed. Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit: Broadside, 1971. 188 pp.

● Gwendolyn Brooks / Introduction

● Sigmonde Wimberli / Fear Came Early
● Mike Cook / Bootie Black and the Seven Giants All Sipping Chili (Benign) to the Tune of Gertrude Stein Polishing the Knob of Crip Heard
● Mike Cook / If I Knock You Down, Don't Blame It On Me
● Don L. Lee / Black Critic
● Don L. Lee / Black Writing
● Don L. Lee / Mwilu/or Poem for the Living (for Charles & LaTanya)
● Don L. Lee / Afterword: for Gwen Brooks
● Don L. Lee / With All Deliberate Speed
● Don L. Lee / To Be Quicker
● Don L. Lee / Positives: for Sterling Plumpp
● Walter Bradford / Sketches of a Trip Home
● Walter Bradford / A Blk social Statement on the Occasion of Another Curtis Ellis Creation
● Walter Bradford / The Confessions of Nat Turner
● Ronda Davis / Invitation
● Ronda Davis / Poems About Playmates
● Ronda Davis / spacin
● Ronda Davis / Parasitosis
● Ronda Davis / A Personality Sketch: Bill
● Linyatta (Doris Turner) / 3 Units Single Cycle (or) “Now We Can Be Friends”
● Linyatta (Doris Turner) / Fragment Reflection I
● Linyatta (Doris Turner) / Reckoning A.M. Thursday After An Encounter Between A Sawdust Sack and A Silly
● Carl Clark / No More
● Carl Clark / Conundrum
● Carl Clark / (Thoughts From A Bottle)
● Carl Clark / Allegory in Black
● Carl Clark / Ode to a Beautiful Woman
● Carl Clark / The Second Coming
● Peggy Kenner / Image in the Mirror
● Peggy Kenner / No Bargains Today
● Peggy Kenner / Comments
● Peggy Kenner / The Round Table
● Peggy Kenner / Black Taffy
● Peggy Kenner / Memories of the Long Seat
● Peggy Kenner / Life in My Own Dust
● Carolyn Rodgers / Jump Bad
● Carolyn Rodgers / “In This House, There Shall Be No Idols”
● Carolyn Rodgers / Phoenix
● Carolyn Rodgers / Rebolushinary x-mas/eastuh julie 4 etc. etc. etc. etc.
● Carolyn Rodgers / Voodoo On the un-assing of janis joplin
● Carolyn Rodgers / Missing Beat
● Carolyn Rodgers / Proclamation/From Sleep, Arise
● Carolyn Rodgers / Remember Times
● Carolyn Rodgers / Somebody Call
● Carolyn Rodgers / Look At My Face
● Carolyn Rodgers / setting/slow drag
● Carolyn Rodgers / The Story/Riff
● Carolyn Rodgers / Poem/Ditty-Bop
● Carolyn Rodgers / And While We Are Waiting
● James Cunningham / A Welcome for Etheridge
● James Cunningham / The City Rises
● James Cunningham / St. Julien's Eve
● James Cunningham / Incidental Pieces to a Walk
● James Cunningham / For Cal
● James Cunningham / Rapping Along with Ronda Davis
● James Cunningham / A Street in Kaufmanville
● James Cunningham / Solitary Visions of a Kaufmanoid
● James Cunningham / Lee-ers of Hew
● James Cunningham / From the Narrator's Trance
● James Cunningham / Slow Riff for Billy
● James Cunningham / A Plea to My Sister
● James Cunningham / From a Brother Dreaming in the Rye
● James Cunningham / The Covenant
● James Cunningham / Footnote to a Gray Bird's Pause
● James Cunningham / While Cecil Snores
● James Cunningham / Leg-acy of a Blue Capricorn
● James Cunningham / Happy Day (or Independence Day)
● James Cunningham / High Cool/2
● James Cunningham / Tambourine
● James Cunningham / Incest for Brothers: A Criticism
● Johari Amini / Cromlech
● Johari Amini / Childhood
● Johari Amini / Brother
● Johari Amini / Before/and After
● Johari Amini / A Sun Heals
● Johari Amini / Untitled
● Sharon Scott / Little More About the Brothers and Sisters
● Sharon Scott / Just Taking Note
● Sharon Scott / Discovering
● Sharon Scott / On My Stand
● Sharon Scott / Okay
● Sharon Scott / Between Me and Anyone Who Can Understand
● Sharon Scott / Our Lives
● Sharon Scott / Mama Knows
● Sharon Scott / Come On Home
● Sharon Scott / Oh--Yeah!
● Sharon Scott / Untitled
● Sharon Scott / Untitled (hi ronda)
● Sharon Scott / Fisk Is
● Sharon Scott / For Both of Us at Fisk

● Biographies
● Author-Title Index

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• "The famous black poet Gwendolyn Brooks offers a collection of a dozen Chicago black voices, all of whom share youth (at the time of publication most of them were in their twenties). They were 'involved in an exciting labor, a challenging labor; admitting that it is not likely all black will immediately convert to Swahili, they are blackening English. Some of the results are effective and stirring . . . True black writers speak as blacks, about blacks, to blacks.' There are several prose pieces in this volume, and the reader is advised to read Don Lee's 'Black Critic' and 'Black Writing' for excellent background material on the attitudes and hopes of most of the poets in the collection. Each of the poets is represented by four or five pieces. By now, much of the poetry seems dated but is still of social interest and remains a basic reference for anyone studying the thought of the late 1960's and early 1970's" ("The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies". Ed. William Katz, Linda Sternberg Katz, and Esther Crain. 2nd enlarged ed. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 10).

• Kallenbach 1979. (gives subtitle as "A New Anthology")
• Kinnamon 1997: 467, 470.
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)

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