Anthologies of African American Writing

KenteCloth: Southwest Voices of the African Diaspora: The Oral Tradition Comes to the Page

"KenteCloth: Southwest Voices of the African Diaspora: The Oral Tradition Comes to the Page" . Ed. Jas Mardis. Denton: U of North Texas P, 1997. xvii+256 pp.

Bearing witness / Bernestine Singley -- Bridge of silk / Tim Seibles -- The promise / Vicky Charleston -- Taboo / Mawiyah Kai el-Jaman Bomani -- A new understanding / Lindsay Patterson -- The Bluebird Lounge / Charley Moon -- Scatting to Heaven's gate ; At the Victory Grill, No. 1 / Valerie Bridgeman-Davis -- Close don't count / Emily M. Newsome -- Chapter one: a social black music art lesson / Glenn Joshua -- One Friday nite at Boone's Adult Club ; Slow dancing / Ife Nzingha Talibah Mahdi -- Just burn me / Von -- Getting a word in, edge-wise / Nia Akimbo -- Corner courtship / Meta Carstarphen -- Son of a distant god / Ana Sisnet -- Wha'chu shoulda told the brother / Tim Seibles -- Just like a woman ; Fireman's ball ; This poem woke me--4:50 a.m. / Kalamu ya Salaam -- I didn't feel it / Emotion Brown -- Someone's knockin' at my door / Nadir Lasana Bomani -- M.L.K / Asabi Olufemi Ifasola -- Pinafores / Charley Moon -- On the morning St. Bernard / Glenn Joshua -- The past predicts the future / Kalamu ya Salaam -- South of Eden ; Invisible man ; Sting / Jas. Mardis -- Lovve/rituals & rage ; Dyke/warrior-prayers / Sharon Bridgforth -- A stray dog's great day / Jesse Garfield Truvillion -- Waiting in line at the drugstore / James Thomas Jackson -- A hunt in the big thicket / Bob Lee -- My hellion parrain / Pearl Garrett Crayton -- A child's life in the big thicket: a love of blackberries / Jesse Garfield Truvillion -- The red swing / Phyllis W. Allen -- Tricky Slim and the peepers / Jas. Mardis -- The tarnished hero / Lindsay Patterson -- The end of a season / Clifton L. Taulbert -- Uncle Tom's head / Luvenia Fears-Porchia -- A sort of homecoming / Kaylois Henry -- Send him over ; Ashes / Von -- Safe home / Sybil Cannon -- That's what my ass is for / Von -- Notes of a funeral director ; Mary had a big booty & JC ate a plate of collard greens / Greg Johnson -- She hates me / Bertram Barnes -- Natural beauty / Cassandra M. Bailey -- Thanks, but no thanks / Anthony A. Douglas -- Jazz funeral / Chuck Perkins -- My blackness / Keith Walker -- The mask / Michael Ollie Clayton -- Ain't I got an issue ; Old Black men / Gayle Bell -- Downtown brothers / Michele L. Majors -- I ain't mad at'cha / Monica Frazier -- Soul soother / Zenaura Melynia Smith -- Tribute to watermelon / Fred Fowler -- Ms. Hanah's hair / Freddi Williams Evans -- If I should die tonight / Vicky Charleston -- (untitled) ; Well your honor, this is how I remember things happening: / Monica Denise Spears -- She is running now ... what when she is dead / Saddi Khali -- Fantasy / Froswa' Booker-Drew -- Fly by / Freddi Williams Evans -- New growth / Mawiyah Kai El-Jaman Bomani -- Dreams befitting / Adrienne Norris.

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