Anthologies of African American Writing

New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature

"New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature" . Comp. Abraham Chapman. New York: New American Library, 1972. 606 pp.

• Repr. New York: Mentor, 1996. 606 pp.

● Introduction

I. FICTION
● John Oliver Killens / The Cotillion (Foreword)
● Robert Deane Pharr / The Numbers Writer
● Cyrus Colter / Mary's Convert
● Ernest J. Gaines / Three Men
● Ronald L. Fair / We Who Came After
● Etheridge Knight / A Time to Mourn
● William Melvin Kelley / A Good Long Sidewalk
● Mike Thelwell / Bright an' Mownin' Star
● Al Young / Chicken Hawk's Dream
● James Alan McPherson / A Solo Song: For Doc
● Jeanne A. Taylor / A House Divided
● Cecil Brown / The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (Prologue)
● Victor Steven Walker / The Long Sell
● Joe Martinez / Rehabilitation and Treatment

II. POETRY
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Riot
● Margaret Walker / Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad
● Robert Hayden / The Dream (1863)
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Ka 'Ba
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Sacred Chant for the Return of Black Spirit and Power
● Gerald W. Barrax / The Scuba Diver Recovers the Body of a Drowned Child
● Gerald W. Barrax / The Old Gory
● Gerald W. Barrax / For a Black Poet
● F.J. Bryant, Jr / Cathexis
● Conyus / The Great Santa Barbara Oil Disaster OR:
● Conyus / i rode with geronimo
● Conyus / Confession to Malcolm
● Jayne Cortez / Lonely Woman
● Jayne Cortez / I'm A Worker
● Jayne Cortez / Suppression
● Jayne Cortez / The Rising
● Victor Hernandez Cruz / First Claims Poem
● Victor Hernandez Cruz / urban dream
● James A. Emanuel / Whitey, Baby
● James A. Emanuel / Black Man, 13th Floor
● James A. Emanuel / For "Mr. Dudley," a Black Spy
● James A. Emanuel / Panther Man
● Mari Evans / Vive Noir!
● Calvin Forbes / Reading Walt Whitman
● Calvin Forbes / Europe
● Calvin Forbes / Lullaby for Ann-Lucian
● Nikki Giovanni / My Poem
● Carl H. Greene / Something Old, Something New
● Carl H. Greene / The Realist
● Carl H. Greene / The Excuse
● Kirk Hall / blackgoldblueswoman
● Kirk Hall / today is not like they said
● Michael S. Harper / A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit
● Michael S. Harper / High Modes: Vision As Ritual: Confirmation
● Michael S. Harper / Zocalo
● Michael S. Harper / The Guerrilla-Cong
● William J. Harris / My baby
● William J. Harris / A Daddy Poem
● Everett Hoagland / The Anti-Semanticist
● Lance Jeffers / Old love butchered (Colorado Springs and Huachuca)
● Lance Jeffers / Trellie
● Lance Jeffers / I do not know the power of my hand
● Lance Jeffers / There is a nation
● Norman Jordan / I Have Seen Them
● Norman Jordan / When a Woman Gets Blue
● Norman Jordan / Be You
● Norman Jordan / The Silent Prophet
● Norman Jordan / July 27
● Norman Jordan / The Poet the Dreamer
● Bob Kaufman / Cocoa Morning
● Bob Kaufman / Heavy Water Blues
● Bob Kaufman / Geneology
● Etheridge Knight / The Warden Said to Me the Other Day
● Etheridge Knight / Crazy Pigeon
● Etheridge Knight / A WASP Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
● Etheridge Knight / It Was a Funky Deal
● Etheridge Knight / For Langston Hughes
● Oliver LaGrone / Suncoming
● Oliver LaGrone / Remnant Ghosts at Dawn
● Oliver LaGrone / Lines to the Black Oak
● Don L. Lee / One Sided Shoot-out
● Don L. Lee / a poem to complement other poems
● Audre Lorde / Generation
● Audre Lorde / New York City 1970
● Audre Lorde / Coal
● K. Curtis Lyle / Sometimes I Go to Camarillo & Sit in the Lounge
● K. Curtis Lyle / Lacrimas or there is a need to scream
● Naomi Long Madgett / Sally: Twelfth Street
● Naomi Long Madgett / Brothers at the Bar
● Naomi Long Madgett / Souvenir
● Naomi Long Madgett / The Twenty Grand (Saturday Night on the Block)
● Clarence Major / Vietnam #4
● Clarence Major / Self World
● Adam David Miller / The African Thing
● Adam David Miller / The Hungry Black Child
● Adam David Miller / the pruning
● Adam David Miller / mulch
● Larry Neal / The Middle Passage and After
● Larry Neal / Harlem Gallery: From the Inside
● Larry Neal / Lady's Days
● Tejumola Ologboni (Rockie D. Taylor) / Changed Mind (or the day i woke up)
● Tejumola Ologboni (Rockie D. Taylor) / Black Henry
● Tejumola Ologboni (Rockie D. Taylor) / I Wonta Thank Ya
● Raymond R. Patterson / What We Know
● Raymond R. Patterson / Black Power
● Raymond R. Patterson / When I Awoke
● Raymond R. Patterson / A Word to the Wise Is Enough
● Raymond R. Patterson / Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman
● Raymond R. Patterson / This Age
● N.H. Pritchard / The Signs
● N.H. Pritchard / Passage
● Dudley Randall / Primitives
● Dudley Randall / The Melting Pot
● Dudley Randall / Old Witherington
● Eugene Redmond / Parapoetics
● Eugene Redmond / Spearo's Blues (Or: Ode to a Grecian Yearn)
● Eugene Redmond / Definition of Nature
● Ishmael Reed / catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church
● Ed Roberson / Four Lines of a Black Love Letter Between Teachers
● Sonia Sanchez / liberation/poem
● Sonia Sanchez / on watching a world series game
● Stephany / 16. What marked the river's flow
● Stephany / 19. Who collects the pain
● Stephany / 23. I have spent my life
● Stephany / 26. It is again
● Stephany / 27. Moving deep
● Lorenzo Thomas / Inauguration
● Sotère Torregian / Poem for the Birthday of Huey P. Newton
● Sotère Torregian / The Newark Public Library Reading Room
● Sotère Torregian / Travois of the Nameless
● Quincy Troupe / A Day in the Life of a Poet
● Quincy Troupe / Impressions/of Chicago; For Howlin' Wolf
● Quincy Troupe / you come to me
● Quincy Troupe / The Syntax of the Mind Grips
● Tom Weatherly / autobiography
● Tom Weatherly / your eyes are mirth
● Tom Weatherly / blues for franks wooten
● Tom Weatherly / mud water shango
● Ron Welburn / Whichway
● Ron Welburn / black is beautiful
● Ron Welburn / it is overdue time
● Ron Welburn / lyrics shimmy like
● Ron Welburn / Condition blue/dress
● Ron Welburn / put u red-eye in
● Ron Welburn / and universals
● Ron Welburn / tu
● Jay Wright/ The Neighborhood House
● Jay Wright / Jalapeña gypsies
● Al Young / A Little More Traveling Music
● Al Young / A Dance for Ma Rainey
● Al Young / A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
● Al Young / Dance of the Infidels
● Al Young / The Prestidigitator [1]
● Al Young / The Prestidigitator [2]
● Isaac J. Black / Racist psycotherapy
● Tom Dent / For Walter Washington
● Tom Dent / Ray Charles at Mississippi State
● Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam) / whi/te boys gone
● Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam) / The Blues (in two parts)
● Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam) / 2 B BLK
● Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam) / Food for Thought
● Renaldo Fernandez / legacy of a brother
● Kush / A Message for Langston
● Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) / Bedtime Story
● Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) / Black Woman Throws a Tantrum
● Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) / I watched little black boys
● Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) / First time I was sweet sixteen
● Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) / easy way out
● John O'Neal / Shades of Pharoah Sanders Blues for My Baby
● Raymond Washington / Vision from the Ghetto
● Raymond Washington / Freedom Hair
● Raymond Washington / Moon bound

III. CRITICISM
● Chester Himes / Dilemma of the Negro Novelist in the U.S.A.
● Ralph Ellison / Remarks at The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference on the Negro American, 1965
● James Baldwin / Why I Left America
● Richard A. Long / Black Studies: International Dimensions
● Nathan Hare / Algiers 1969: A Report on the Pan-African Cultural Festival
● Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of the Black Nation
● Val Ferdinand (Kalamu ya Salaam) / BLKARTSOUTH/get on up!
● Eldridge Cleaver / Psychology: The Black Bible
● Maulana Ron Karenga / Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function
● James Cunningham / Hemlock for the Artist: Karenga Style
● Emory Douglas / On Revolutionary Culture
● Johnetta B. Cole / Culture: Negro, Black and Nigger
● Darwin T. Turner / The Teaching of Afro-American Literature
● Lance Jeffers / Afroamerican Literature: The Conscience of Man
● Ishmael Reed / 9 Necromancers from Now (Introduction)
● Addison Gayle, Jr. / The Son of My Father
● Adam David Miller / Some Observations on a Black Aesthetic
● Walt Shepperd / An Interview with Clarence Major and Victor Hernandez Cruz
● Al Young / Statement on Aesthetics, Poetics, Kinetics

IV. DOCUMENTS
● Malcolm X / Statement of Basic Aims and Objectives of the Organization of Afro-American Unity
● Malcolm X / Basic Unity Program, Organization of Afro-American Unity
● “Institute of the Black World” / Statement of Purpose and Program
● “The Black World Foundation Program” / Program
● “Black Academy of Arts and Letters” / Purposes
● “Black Academy of Arts and Letters” / Founding Address by C. Eric Lincoln: "The Excellence of Soul"
● “Black Academy of Arts and Letters” / Second Annual Awards Banquet

● Bibliography

• "This solid anthology is divided into four categories: black fiction, black poetry, criticism of black literary and social issues, and documents written by black leaders and officials. The poetry and fiction are the most compelling—angry free verse and evocative lyrics of traditional themes and of class struggles, prejudice, and urban life. Amiri Baraka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Nikki Giovanni, and Al Young are among the better-known writers. Johnetta Cole, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X are among those featured in the documentary section. The long introduction on the state of black literature and art seems outdated after more than two decades, but the compilation is strong and skilled. Brief biographical information is given" ("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. 11)

• "Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature". Ed. Abraham Chapman. New York: New American Library, 1968. (above)

original ed.: Kinnamon 1997: 466
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)

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