Anthologies of African American Writing

Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry

"Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry" . Ed. Charlotte Watson Sherman. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. xxii+378 pp.

After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed / Rita Dove -- Becoming Fluent / Lillien Waller -- Mama / Marilyn Fullen-Collins -- Daughters / Jackie Warren-Moore -- Water Bears No Scars / Akua Lezli Hope -- A Thin Neck to Snap / Kim Jenice Dillon -- Riding the Wheel of Fortune / Viki Radden -- the woman's mourning song / bell hooks -- Gospel / Patricia Spears Jones -- Busted / Joy Gray -- crack annie / ntozake shange -- night vision / Lucille Clifton -- Child Molestation Is a National Affair / Michelle T. Clinton -- Peace Be Still / A. Yemisi Jimoh -- On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses / Toi Derricotte -- Finished / Ai -- It Must Be Her Heartbreak Talking / Patricia Spears Jones -- Vanity / J. California Cooper -- The Right to Life: What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? / Alice Walker -- Disappearing Acts / Terry McMillan -- Just Becuz U Believe in Abortion Doesnt Mean U're Not Pro-Life / Laini Mataka -- An Elegy for Jade / Tiye Milan Selah -- different ones #6 -- Future Possibilities (An AIDS Soliloquy) / Viki Akiwumi -- touch / Charlotte Watson Sherman -- Shadows over Shadows / Kesho Scott -- and do remember me / Marita Golden -- Prelude to an Endnote / Fatisha -- An Anointing / Thylias Moss -- Hummers / Deb Parks-Satterfield -- The Tree-Line / Sherley Anne Williams -- Daughters / Paule Marshall -- Finishing / Akua Lezli Hope -- More Than a Mouthful / Folisade -- Just Desserts / Deb Parks-Satterfield -- is it true what they say about colored pussy? / hattie gossett -- Ambrosia / Doris L. Harris -- We Always Were / Folisade -- Piece of Time / Jewelle Gomez -- Dildo / Toi Derricotte -- Clitoris / Toi Derricotte -- There's a Window / Sapphire -- Solitude Ain't Loneliness / Michelle T. Clinton --The Dream and Lettie Byrd's Charm / Imani Constance Johnson-Burnett -- The Liberation of Masturbation / Evelyn Joyce Reingold -- Encounter and Farewell / Patricia Spears Jones -- The Late Mrs. Hadlay / Jo Ann Henderson -- revolution starts at 11:50 a.m.//april 2, 1993 / karsonya e. wise -- Mama Day / Gloria Naylor -- Eclipse Mary Walls -- Song Through the Wall / Akua Lezli Hope -- Dues / Mattie Richardson -- duplication / jonetta rose barras -- Wounded in the House of a Friend / Sonia Sanchez -- Middle-age UFO / Colleen McElroy -- Oya Mae's General Store / Dorothy Randall Gray -- How to Fly into 50 (Without a Fear of Flying) / Saundra Sharp -- Seven Women's Blessed Assurance / Maya Angelou -- climbing / Lucille Clifton -- Visitations / Brenda Bankhead -- The Rag Man's New Clothes / Gabrielle Daniels -- If You Lose Your Pen / Ruth Forman -- Sister Outsider / Opal Palmer Adisa -- rent / gale jackson -- Sapphire as Artist in the World / Wanda Coleman -- My Muse Relentless / Akua Lezli Hope -- Bianca / Bridgett M. Davis -- Raised by Women / Kelly Norman Ellis -- the corner is not a place for hiding / jonetta rose barras -- Prayer for the Nineties Woman and the Natural Woman Too / Tamara Madison-Shaw -- Matchmaker, Matchmaker / Colleen McElroy -- At Least Once a Week / Ruth Forman -- Uterus Root / Michelle T. Clinton -- masks, trumpets, gris gris and us / jonetta rose barras -- Legacy/Repeat After Me / Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull -- 21st century black warrior wimmins chant for strengthening the nerves and getting yourself together / hattie gossett.

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