Anthologies of African American Writing

Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers

"Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers" . Ed. Kevin Young. New York: Perennial, 2000. xiii+364 pp.

• Kevin Young / The Black Psychic Hotline, or The Future of African American Writing
• Elizabeth Alexander / What I'm Telling You
• Elizabeth Alexander / Nineteen
• Elizabeth Alexander / Frank Willis
• Elizabeth Alexander / Stella by Starlight
• Elizabeth Alexander / Deadwood Dick
• Elizabeth Alexander / Overture: Watermelon City
• Elizabeth Alexander / Race
• Elizabeth Alexander / Blues
• Elizabeth Alexander / Feminist Poem Number One
• Hilton Als / from “The Women”
• Anthony Butts / A Poe Story
• Anthony Butts / Becoming the Ghost
• Anthony Butts / Self-Portrait with Clark Street Cadillac
• Anthony Butts / Detroit, One A.M
• Anthony Butts / Machines
• Anthony Butts / The Loudest Sound
• Edwidge Danticat / The Book of the Dead
• Thomas Sayers Ellis / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
• Thomas Sayers Ellis / Fatal April
• Thomas Sayers Ellis / Being There
• Hush Yo Mouf
• Thomas Sayers Ellis / Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein
• Thomas Sayers Ellis / Atomic Bride
• Carolyn Ferrell / Can You Say My Name?
• Ruth Forman / Haiku I
• Ruth Forman / The Williams Side of the Family
• Ruth Forman / Blues Poem III
• Ruth Forman / Show Me the Ankles of Justice
• Ruth Forman / Cancer
• Ruth Forman / Momma Died When My Wisdom Teeth Come In Even If I Was Cleopatra Jones
• Terrance Hayes / Shafro
• Terrance Hayes / I Want to Be Fat
• Terrance Hayes / Neckbones
• Terrance Hayes / Candied Yams
• Terrance Hayes / What I Am
• Terrance Hayes / Goliath Poem
• Terrance Hayes / When the Neighbors Fight
• Terrance Hayes / Some Luminous Distress
• Terrance Hayes / Summer
• Allison Joseph / Salt
• Allison Joseph / Learning the Blues
• Allison Joseph / Family Life
• Allison Joseph / Home Girl Talks Girlhood
• Allison Joseph / On Being Told I Don’t Speak Like a Black Person
• John Keene / Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen’s Park, 1949
• John Keene / Cecil’s Consolation (1942)
• John Keene / One Revolution
• John Keene / Winter Elegy
• John Keene / Why I Love My Father
• Randall Kenan / Now Why Come That Is?
• Harryette Mullen / She Landed on the Moon
• Harryette Mullen / Roadmap
• Harryette Mullen / from “Muse & Drudge”
• Harryette Mullen / Suzuki Method
• Harryette Mullen / Black Nikes
• Kevin Powell / Letter to My Father
• Claudia Rankine / American Light
• Claudia Rankine / Him
• Claudia Rankine / Overview Is a Place
• Claudia Rankine / The Quotidian
• Claudia Rankine / This Life
• Darieck Scott / 1979
• Danzy Senna / The Land of the Beulah
• Reginald Shepherd / The Difficult Music
• Reginald Shepherd / Desire and the Slave Trade
• Reginald Shepherd / Antibody
• Reginald Shepherd / S’il Meurt
• Reginald Shepherd / Icarus on Fire Island
• Reginald Shepherd / At the Grave of Hart Crane
• Reginald Shepherd / Skin Trade
• Natasha Tarpley / from “Girl in the Mirror”
• Natasha Trethewey / At the Station
• Natasha Trethewey / Speculation. 1939
• Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
• Natasha Trethewey / Flounder
• Natasha Trethewey / Saturday’s Matinee
• Natasha Trethewey / Bellocq’s Ophelia
• Rebecca Walker / Higher Yellow
• Anthony Walton / from “Mississippi”
• Philippe Wamba / Of Prophets and Madmen
• Colson Whitehead / The All-Night Bodega of Souls
• Daniel Jerome Wideman / Singing Sankofa
• Joe Wood / The Yellow Negro
• Kevin Young / Nineteen Seventy-Five
• Kevin Young / No Offense
• Kevin Young / Negative
• Kevin Young / Charlie Chan on Horn
• Langston Hughes / Homage to Phillis Wheatley

• Selected Bibliography
• Discography
• Acknowledgements
• Index by genre

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