Anthologies of African American Writing

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing

"Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing" . Ed. Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris. New York: Harlem Moon, 2002. xx+804 pp.

About the Hurston/Wright Foundations -- Note / E. Lynn Harris -- Note / Marita Golden -- The Dew Breaker / Edwidge Danticat -- From Erasure / Percival Everett -- From RL's Dream / Walter Mosley -- From The Harris Men / R.M. Johnson -- The Boy-Fish / David Anthony Durham -- The Way I See It (From A Day Late and a Dollar Short) / Terry McMillan -- From Pride / Lorene Cary -- From What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day / Pearl Cleage -- Mourning Glo / Lori Bryant-Woolridge -- From These Same Long Bones / Gwendolyn M. Parker -- Your Child Can Be a Model! / David Haynes -- From Song of the Water Saints / Nelly Rosario -- Miss Prissy and the Penitentiary / Yolanda Joe -- Luminous Days / Mitchell Jackson -- From Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven / Dawn Turner Trice -- Sonny-Boy (From Pictures of a Dying Man) / Agymah Kamau -- From Water Marked / Helen Elaine Lee -- From October Suite / Maxine Clair -- Like Trees, Walking / Ravi Howard -- Weight / John Edgar Wideman -- From Thieves' Paradise / Eric Jerome Dickey -- From P.G. County / Connie Briscoe -- My Heavenly Father / Dana Crum -- Lion's Blood / Steven Barnes -- The Knowing / Tananarive Due -- Luscious (From Loving Donovan) / Bernice L. McFadden -- From Crawfish Dreams / Nancy Rawles -- Press and Curl / Tayari Jones -- I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies (From The River Where Blood Is Born) / Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Draggin' the Dog / Anika Nailah -- Museum Guide (From Black Girl in Paris) / Shay Youngblood -- School (From Miss Black America) / Veronica Chambers -- Ghost Story (From Slapboxing with Jesus) / Victor D. Lavalle -- Clarity / David Wright -- My Mama, Your Mama (From Imani All Mine) / Connie Porter -- From Rails Under My Back / Jeffery Renard Allen -- From Dakota Grand / Kenji Jasper -- The Dinner Party / E. Lynn Harris -- Meeting Frederick (From Douglass's Women) / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Eva and Isaiah (From Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do) / Valerie Wilson Wesley -- From Discretion / Elizabeth Nunez -- An Orange Line Train to Ballston / Edward P. Jones -- Lucielia Louise Turner (From The Women of Brewster Place) / Gloria Naylor -- Fortune / R. Erica Doyle -- $100 and Nothing! / J. California Cooper -- Are You Experienced? / Danzy Senna -- Group Solo / Scott Poulson Bryant -- Love / Bertice Berry -- From Breathing Room / Patricia Elam -- Love (From Drop) / Mat Johnson -- Antiquated Desires / Cris Burks -- From Rest for the Weary / Arthur Flowers -- From Church Folk / Michele Andrea Bowen -- From Commitment / Thomas Glave -- Black and Boo / Michael Kayode -- Rossonian Days / William Henry Lewis -- Helter Skelter / Marita Golden -- Here / Audrey Petty -- Summer Comes Later / Robert Fleming -- The Bulging Bag / Unoma N. Azuah -- From Sap Rising / Christine Lincoln -- Fire: An Origin Tale / Faith Adiele -- Tan Son Nhut Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (From The Land South of the Clouds) / Genaro Ky Ly Smith -- Between Black and White / Nicole Bailey-Williams -- Hincty (From The Chosen People) / Karen Bates -- To Haiti or To Hell / Alexs D. Pate -- Mirror Image / Amy Du Bois Barnett -- From What You Owe Me / Bebe Moore Campbell -- Will Not Be Televised / Jewell Gomez -- Fear of Floating / Bryan Gibson -- From The Queen of Harlem / Brian Keith Jackson -- My Girl Mona / Crystal Wilkinson.

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