Catch the Fire!!! A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry
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Title
Catch the Fire!!! A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry
This edition
"Catch the Fire!!! A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry." Ed. Derrick I. M. Gilbert and Tony Medina. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. xxiii+288 pp.
Table of contents
● Acknowledgements
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Introduction
Chapter 1 / What’s Going On?
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and June Jordan / Interview with June Jordan
● Amiri Baraka / Of What Use is Poetry? (Babalu Meets the Wolfman)
● Kenneth Carroll / The Domino Theory (Or Snoop Dogg Rules the World)
● Keith Antar Mason / Friday Night
● Pam Ward / She Should Have Called 911
● Victor E. Blue / American Dialogue
● Dr. Madd Vibe [The Missin’ Link] / L.A. (Lost Assholes)
● Kalunda-Bae / Hoochie Route
● Nikkia Billingsley / Rhetorically Speaking
● Elaine Brown / If Randi Could Write
● Letta Simone-Nefertari Neely / Rhona, Age 15 Emergency Room
● Asha Bandele / the subtle art of breathing
● Kevin Powell / Out of Pocket
● Charlie Braxton / The Gathering
● Christopher Stanard / Spirits Struggle
● El Rivera / Elegy for a Martyred Poet
● Kamau Daáood / Tears
● Bill Duke / Poem to the World
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Too Many
● June Jordan / Poem for Derrick Gilbert
Chapter 2 / It’s a Family Affair
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Amiri Baraka / Interview with Amiri Baraka
● Amiri Baraka / Revolutionary Love
● Toi Derricotte / Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
● Evelyn E. Shockley / Oseola McCarty
● Rohan B. Preston / Lovesong to My Father
● Paula White-Jackson / Saturday Morning Pancakes
● Beverly Fields Burnette / Artichoke Pickle Passion: Sonnet
● Roni Walter / Familee Reunion Tyme
● Niama Leslie Williams / Companion Pieces
● Merilene M. Murphy / Fat Grass & Slow Rain
● Lenard D. Moore / Tanka
● Lenard D. Moore / Haiku
● Lynn G. Moore / Haiku
● Maiisha L. Moore / Haiku
● Brian Gilmore / Hazing
● Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani / Homecoming
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Mountain Wife
● M. Eliza Hamilton / Things I Do Not Speak
● Shaquille O’Neal / Biological Didn’t Bother
● Nadir Lasana Bomani / Thin Water
● V. Kali Nurigan / I’m Raising Children
● Haki R. Madhubuti / A Bonding
Chapter 3 / No Ordinary Love
● Ntozake Shange / The Lizard Series
● Sabah As-Sabah / Love
● K. Curtis Lyle / Your Tears Feel Good on the Hood of My Car
● Jamal [full name listed] / Sat. Nite
● Wendy L. James / Troy
● A.K. Toney / In the Twilight
● Jenoyne Adams / Out-of-Body Experience
● DJ Renegade / Hoodoo
● Anthony C. Lyons / Touch Her
● Shonda Buchanan / Prayer
● Michael Datcher / i am open
● Kupenda Auset [Joette Harland Watts] / That Was Then
● Derrick X [Goldie the Poet] / Shot to the Curb
● Cheryl Boyce Taylor / English Lace
● Duriel E. Harris / But There Are Miles
● Kysha N. Brown / Brown Girl Blues
● Honerée F. Jeffers / I Was Looking at Miles
● Cree Summer / Curious White Boy
● Malcolm-Jamal Warner / My Woman
● Glenn Joshua / On the Morning St. Bernard
● Lisa B. Thompson / What Do I Want from Men and Love?
● Lana Moorer [MC Lyte] / Everyday
● Ojenke [full name listed] / Amazon
Chapter 4 / Revolutions
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Abiodun Oyewole / When the Revolution Comes
● Mario Van Peebles / To Hell with Whitey
● Chuck D. / But Can You Kill the Nigga
● Roland Poet X / The Divided States of America
● Speech [full name listed] / Revolution
● Oktavi [full name listed] / Pardon Me
● Poetri [full name listed] / Don’t Hate Me!
● Tony Medina / Capitalism Is a Brutal Motherfucker
● Nadir Lasana Bomani / A Philosophical Perspective on Everyday Shit
● Eddie Griffin / Mind of a Madman
● Adwin Brown / Donut Man
● Crystal A. Williams / In Search of Aunt Jemima
● Ta-Nehisi Coates / Alice Flips the Script
● A(e)rin Wilson / Grenudita
● Paul Calderón / It’s Hard!
● John W. Love Jr. / Moment 9/The Woman
● Mariahadessa ‘Ekere’ Tallie / Karma’s Footsteps
● Abiodun Oyewole / Future Shock
Chapter 5 / Body & Soul/Celebrations
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Quincy Troupe / Interview with Quincy Troupe
● DJ Renegade / Haiku
● Michael War / Duke Checks Out Ella As She Scats Like That
● Art Nixon / Ju-Ju Man
● Askia M. Touré / Milestones: September 28, 1991
● Mendi Lewis / I Remember 1983
● Defari Herut / Gems
● Marlon C. Williams [PoetX] / Blood, Sweat, and Fears
● T’Kalla / Nuns in the Basement of God
● Chezia Thompson-Cager / Praise Song for Katherine Dunham: A Choreopoem
● Candice M. Jenkins / Poem for Tracy (Chapman)
● Lana C. Williams / Flying High
● Karen Williams / Kissing Keys
● Patricia Smith / Asking for a Heart Attack
● Quincy Troupe / Collage
Chapter 6 / Catch the Fire
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Sonia Sanchez / Interview with Sonia Sanchez
● Sonia Sanchez / Catch the Fire
● Kalamu Ya Salaam / Soon One Morning, I’ll Fly Away
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / At the Border of Constant Disaster
● Angela Shannon / Doris
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Miracle
● Glenis Redmond Sherer / Our Spirit Stands
● Jabari Asim / Mumble the Magic Words
● Kwame Alexander / Just Us
● Eric Priestley / Eye & Eye
● Saul Williams / Recitation
● Sonja Marie / Dream Fix
● Sabah As-Sabah / Sister Roll
● Yona Harvey / Sonia Told the Women
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / The Fire in the Drum
● Peter J. Harris / Let’s All Take the Blame
● Amiri Baraka / Revelation in Brick City
● Haile Gerima / Sankofa
● Nikki Giovanni / But Since You Finally Asked
● Contributors
● Credits
● Index of Contributors
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Introduction
Chapter 1 / What’s Going On?
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and June Jordan / Interview with June Jordan
● Amiri Baraka / Of What Use is Poetry? (Babalu Meets the Wolfman)
● Kenneth Carroll / The Domino Theory (Or Snoop Dogg Rules the World)
● Keith Antar Mason / Friday Night
● Pam Ward / She Should Have Called 911
● Victor E. Blue / American Dialogue
● Dr. Madd Vibe [The Missin’ Link] / L.A. (Lost Assholes)
● Kalunda-Bae / Hoochie Route
● Nikkia Billingsley / Rhetorically Speaking
● Elaine Brown / If Randi Could Write
● Letta Simone-Nefertari Neely / Rhona, Age 15 Emergency Room
● Asha Bandele / the subtle art of breathing
● Kevin Powell / Out of Pocket
● Charlie Braxton / The Gathering
● Christopher Stanard / Spirits Struggle
● El Rivera / Elegy for a Martyred Poet
● Kamau Daáood / Tears
● Bill Duke / Poem to the World
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Too Many
● June Jordan / Poem for Derrick Gilbert
Chapter 2 / It’s a Family Affair
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Amiri Baraka / Interview with Amiri Baraka
● Amiri Baraka / Revolutionary Love
● Toi Derricotte / Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
● Evelyn E. Shockley / Oseola McCarty
● Rohan B. Preston / Lovesong to My Father
● Paula White-Jackson / Saturday Morning Pancakes
● Beverly Fields Burnette / Artichoke Pickle Passion: Sonnet
● Roni Walter / Familee Reunion Tyme
● Niama Leslie Williams / Companion Pieces
● Merilene M. Murphy / Fat Grass & Slow Rain
● Lenard D. Moore / Tanka
● Lenard D. Moore / Haiku
● Lynn G. Moore / Haiku
● Maiisha L. Moore / Haiku
● Brian Gilmore / Hazing
● Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani / Homecoming
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Mountain Wife
● M. Eliza Hamilton / Things I Do Not Speak
● Shaquille O’Neal / Biological Didn’t Bother
● Nadir Lasana Bomani / Thin Water
● V. Kali Nurigan / I’m Raising Children
● Haki R. Madhubuti / A Bonding
Chapter 3 / No Ordinary Love
● Ntozake Shange / The Lizard Series
● Sabah As-Sabah / Love
● K. Curtis Lyle / Your Tears Feel Good on the Hood of My Car
● Jamal [full name listed] / Sat. Nite
● Wendy L. James / Troy
● A.K. Toney / In the Twilight
● Jenoyne Adams / Out-of-Body Experience
● DJ Renegade / Hoodoo
● Anthony C. Lyons / Touch Her
● Shonda Buchanan / Prayer
● Michael Datcher / i am open
● Kupenda Auset [Joette Harland Watts] / That Was Then
● Derrick X [Goldie the Poet] / Shot to the Curb
● Cheryl Boyce Taylor / English Lace
● Duriel E. Harris / But There Are Miles
● Kysha N. Brown / Brown Girl Blues
● Honerée F. Jeffers / I Was Looking at Miles
● Cree Summer / Curious White Boy
● Malcolm-Jamal Warner / My Woman
● Glenn Joshua / On the Morning St. Bernard
● Lisa B. Thompson / What Do I Want from Men and Love?
● Lana Moorer [MC Lyte] / Everyday
● Ojenke [full name listed] / Amazon
Chapter 4 / Revolutions
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Abiodun Oyewole / When the Revolution Comes
● Mario Van Peebles / To Hell with Whitey
● Chuck D. / But Can You Kill the Nigga
● Roland Poet X / The Divided States of America
● Speech [full name listed] / Revolution
● Oktavi [full name listed] / Pardon Me
● Poetri [full name listed] / Don’t Hate Me!
● Tony Medina / Capitalism Is a Brutal Motherfucker
● Nadir Lasana Bomani / A Philosophical Perspective on Everyday Shit
● Eddie Griffin / Mind of a Madman
● Adwin Brown / Donut Man
● Crystal A. Williams / In Search of Aunt Jemima
● Ta-Nehisi Coates / Alice Flips the Script
● A(e)rin Wilson / Grenudita
● Paul Calderón / It’s Hard!
● John W. Love Jr. / Moment 9/The Woman
● Mariahadessa ‘Ekere’ Tallie / Karma’s Footsteps
● Abiodun Oyewole / Future Shock
Chapter 5 / Body & Soul/Celebrations
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Quincy Troupe / Interview with Quincy Troupe
● DJ Renegade / Haiku
● Michael War / Duke Checks Out Ella As She Scats Like That
● Art Nixon / Ju-Ju Man
● Askia M. Touré / Milestones: September 28, 1991
● Mendi Lewis / I Remember 1983
● Defari Herut / Gems
● Marlon C. Williams [PoetX] / Blood, Sweat, and Fears
● T’Kalla / Nuns in the Basement of God
● Chezia Thompson-Cager / Praise Song for Katherine Dunham: A Choreopoem
● Candice M. Jenkins / Poem for Tracy (Chapman)
● Lana C. Williams / Flying High
● Karen Williams / Kissing Keys
● Patricia Smith / Asking for a Heart Attack
● Quincy Troupe / Collage
Chapter 6 / Catch the Fire
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert and Sonia Sanchez / Interview with Sonia Sanchez
● Sonia Sanchez / Catch the Fire
● Kalamu Ya Salaam / Soon One Morning, I’ll Fly Away
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / At the Border of Constant Disaster
● Angela Shannon / Doris
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / Miracle
● Glenis Redmond Sherer / Our Spirit Stands
● Jabari Asim / Mumble the Magic Words
● Kwame Alexander / Just Us
● Eric Priestley / Eye & Eye
● Saul Williams / Recitation
● Sonja Marie / Dream Fix
● Sabah As-Sabah / Sister Roll
● Yona Harvey / Sonia Told the Women
● Derrick I.M. Gilbert [D-Knowledge] / The Fire in the Drum
● Peter J. Harris / Let’s All Take the Blame
● Amiri Baraka / Revelation in Brick City
● Haile Gerima / Sankofa
● Nikki Giovanni / But Since You Finally Asked
● Contributors
● Credits
● Index of Contributors
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Cited in
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)
Item Number
A0321