Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
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Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
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“Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art.” Ed. Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir, and Qurayshi Ali Lansana. Foreword Haki R. Madhubuti. Chicago: Third World Press, 2002. xix+503 pp.
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Table of contents
● Haki R. Madhubuti / Foreword: The Generation Now
● The Editors / Intro: Call & Response
What is the Role of Today's Emerging Young Artists in the Current Struggle for Equality and Justice?
● John Abner / Future Generation
● Askhari / I Write
● Pamela Plummer / Sankofa
● Kim Mayhorn / Aya
● Adrian Castro / Incantation for the Word
● Eric Mack / Percussion Permeates
● Jeremiah Hoseah Landes / How Music Relates to the Brain
● Jeremiah Hoseah Landes / No One's Slave
● Natasha Tarpley / From Girl in the Mirror
● Angela Shannon / Dear Mama
● Staceyann Chin / I Am My Mother
● Kim Louise / Sticks and Stones
● Kim Mayhorn / detail -"A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day"
● Gina M. Streaty / Case of Blues
● Allison Joseph / Homage to Leonardo Drew's Number Eight
● Jabari Asim / Dumas
● Shane Book / Believe Me
● Sheila L. Prevost / The Poet
● DJ Renegade / The Good Doctor Writes
● G. Winston James / After the Verdict
● Brian Gilmore / Larry
● Johnalynn Holland / Kofi
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Harbors and Spirits
● Tony Medina / Coltrane Spoke to Me One Night
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / The Role Call
How Do the Voices of the Next Generation Define the Issues and Politics of Today?
● John Abner / America in Control
● r.c. glenn / on the use of charliebrown/teachatalk
● Morgan Michael Craft / Music, man, what is it gonna be?
● Sheila L. Prevost / The Rapper
● Kevin Young / Guernica
● Kate Rushin / We play in the Do-It-Yourself family rooms
● Tyehimba Jess / retired, ronald reagan sits in his dayroom
● Samiya A. Bashir / blood and wine
● Shaggy Flores / Corporate America comes to El Barrio
● Calida Garcia / Jobless
● Charlie R. Braxton / The Bird Cage Bunch
● Kysha N. Brown / Survivors
● Renaldo Davidson / Faces
● Tish Benson / Callin Out Ya Uncle
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / returned to sender
● Andrea M. Wren / Dear Daddy
● Kate Rushin / Reba is a State Child and what you call fast
● Samiya A. Bashir / Berneatha's Story
● Dael Orlandersmith / Excerpt from Monster
● Brigette M. Moore / Who's Afraid of a Black Grrrl Revolution?
● Tara Betts / What It's Like to Be a Mixed Girl
● Carol Smith Passariello / Growing Wild
● Kenneth L. Addison / Braiding Rituals
● Shara McCallum / Poem Where My Mother and Father are Absent
● Melanie Hope / The Zoo
● Jacqueline Johnson / Celebration
● Jill Robinson / Black or American
● Derrick Adams / Untitled [from “The consumer series”]
● Terrence Hayes / What I Am
● Kraig A. Blue / My Environment
● Nancy Mercado / Justice in the Techno Age
● Theodore A. Harris / Arriving with Orders from Shaka Sankofa
● s.r. bonafide / War Pigs
● Farai Chideya / Cheney and Mandela : Reconciling the Truth
● Tony Medina / Cleaning the White House Latrine
● Tim Seibles / The Future Adventures of Tutor the Turtle
● Theodore A. Harris / The Cross, the Gun, Necklacing and Black People
● Kelly Norman Ellis / The Bush Boys
● Pamela Sneed / Turtle Eggs
● Edwin Torres / Mother Tongue : Unman Chant
● Lisa C. Moore / The Power of the Press
● Sheila L. Prevost / Lethal
● Tim Seibles / Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Role Call
● Contributors
Role Call is an Exploration of Our Current Cultural Landscape in Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts and Theater-on-the-Page.
● Shirley Carter / Girl Child, Paw Ain't no MLK
● Artress Bethany White / This City Has a Broken Halo
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Catechism
● Shara McCallum / Mother Love
● Shara McCallum / Untitled
● Roy L. Pickering Jr. / Mama's Boy
● Renaldo Davidson / Kneeling Figure
● Clairesa Clay / The Sweeper's Job
● Shirley Carter / The Month of May
● Kim Ransom / seven
● Shirley Carter / I Did Not Intend to Live Past the Knowing
● Lyrae Van Clieff-Stefanon / Eight
● Kenneth L. Addison / Blue Paloma
● Daniel Black / A Father's Love
● John Abner / Allow Him to Parent
● Shay Youngblood / My Body is Bread
● Tim Seibles / Back
● Kiini Ibura Salaam / Sex When I Don't Want It
● Gwendolyn Mitchell / Sometimes There Are No Words
● Esther Iverem / Every Morning
● Emily Hooper Lansana / Second Birth
● Antoinette Pressley-Sanon / Reach for the Sun
● Staceyann Chin / My Mother Left Me Long Before I Was Born
● Shara McCallum / Jamaica Farewell
● Quashelle Curtis / Babylon Queens
● Kagendo / Irresistible Intentions
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Auld Lang Syne
● John Abner / Daily News
● Frank X Walker / Son Rise
● R. Erica Doyle / Social Security
● Stevenson Estimé / Bodega Optimo
● Arthur Ade Amaker / Crematorium
● Brian Gilmore / dreamy blues
● Lenard D. Moore / Haiku
● Jabari Asim / Passing the Middle
● Sheila L. Prevost / Lynching
● Darlene Anita Scott / black men don't kill themselves
● Kenneth Carroll / The First (and last) Anti-Clinton poem
● Reginald Harris / New Rules of the Road
● Edwin Torres / A Story for America
● Kevin Young / Negative
● Eric Mack / Vibrate Plain
● Doug Jones / Clash of Denial
● Lita Hooper / The House of Dangerous Surprise
● Janeé Bolden / Soundtrack for Us
● Jenoyne Adams / The Inside
● Calida Garcia / Berry
● Melissa McEwen / On Days
● Kysha N. Brown / When Lost, Ask for Directions
Role Call is a Litmus Test of- and a Call to Arms to- a Generation Grown Fat on the Limited Freedoms Won by the Civil Rights Struggle.
● Shirley Carter / Is Excess Sin
● Lissette Norman / Warning
● Samiya A. Bashir / The Escape
● Anthony Butts / The Ghost of Orpheus
● Theodore A. Harris / The Bible and the gun
● Kevin Young / Irony of Negro Policeman
● Sharrif Simmons / There Is An Emptiness Approaching
● Navin June Norling / Alive
● Holly Bass / better roses
● John Abner / What Now? Losing Communication
● Carl Hancock Rux / P.S.
● Ayesha J. Gallion / Atonia
● Kenneth L. Addison / Goodnight California
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / L.A. Suite
● Stevenson Estimé / Cash, Media & Math
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / New Recipe
● Melanie Hope / That Midnight Train to Georgia
● James E. Cherry / On Hearing of the Death of Gwendolyn Brooks
● Eisa Davis / 1977
● Gregory Pardlo / Arsonist
● Nikky Finney / Making Foots
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / I was There Once
● Rohan B. Preston / To the Winners
● John Keene / Try to Remember that South African Man
● Akintiunde / Thoughts on Those Flags
● Nikky Finney / The Butt of the Joke
● Shirley Carter / Children of the Sun
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Glory
● Douglas Kearney / Pasadena City Hall, April 29, 1992
● Kenneth L. Addison / 33 Fisher Ave.
● Kate Rushin / Have You Seen Them?
● Jacqueline P. Banyon / Boys Think
● R. Gregory Christie / George Washington
● r.c. glenn / those innocent eyes once weren't
Role Call Takes on Race, Sexuality, Education, Nationalism, Spirituality, AIDS, Globalization, Hip Hop and the Prison Industrial Complex.
● Derrick Adams / Untitled [ from “The Consumer series”]
● Samiya A. Bashir / Narcissus Sits by the River to Take the S.A.T.
● Natasha Trethewey / Gesture of a Woman-in-Process
● Calida Garcia / Retaining Dignity
● Catherine McKinley / Excerpt [ from “The Book of Sarahs, Part I”]
● Quashelle Curtis / Nemsi
● Catherine McKinley / Excerpt [ from “The Book of Sarahs, Part II”]
● Renaldo Davidson / Girl in Crib
● Nelson Demery III / Detailing the Nape
● Eisa Davis / Paper Armor
● Edwin Torres / The Storm Beneath the Bone
● Hannan Saleh / Silhouette with Barbed Wire
● R. Erica Doyle / You in America Now
● Duriel E. Harris / Drive
● Bruce Morrow / Evidence
● Reginald Harris / What I Brought to the Family Reunion
● Nichole L. Shields / Cousin Rita
● Faith Sangoma / Survivor Rememory
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Faggot
● Nichole L. Shields / She
● Nelson Demery III / Silent Languages
● Sharon Bridgforth / bull-jean slipn in
● Karma Mayet Johnson / Cum. Cum.
● Sharon Bridgforth / bull-jean & trouble
● Jacqueline Woodson / Excerpt [ from “The singer”]
● Marvin K. White / where the boys are
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Period
● Angela Shannon / First Day
● Sharan Strange / Snow
● Kim Mayhorn / Home Speech
● Andre O. Hoilette / Plenilunium
● Toni Asante Lightfoot / Scribulus
● Nancy Mercado / Lyric for a New Life
● Charlie R. Braxton / Juking at Miz Annie's
● Natasha Trethewey / Microscope
● Sheree Renée Thomas / For the Distinguished Historian…
● Rosa Clemente / Who is Black?
● Alicia Vogl Sáenz / At the Olmec Exhibit in Washington, D.C.
● Staceyann Chin / My Love Affair with Jamaica
● Jiton Sharmayne Davidson / Evil Gettin' There
● Kenneth L. Addison / Street Corner Revival
● Letta Neely / gawd and alluh huh sistahs
● DJ Renegade / The Goode Lorde
● Kim Mayhorn / A Woman was Lynched the Other Day
● Carol Smith Passariello / Moontime & Mezuzahs
● Antoinette Pressley-Sanon / Three Market Women
● Adrian Castro / When She Carried a Calabash
● Angela Hodison-Malele / The Eyes That Never Left Mine
● G. Winston James / Through It All
● Danielle Legros Georges / Vellum
● Thomas Glave / A Real Place
● Major L. Jackson / Pest
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / statement on the killing of patrick dorismond
● Rohan B. Preston / Bone Memories
● Willie Perdomo / You Pay for What You Get
● Theodore A. Harris / Human-Murderers
● Theodore A. Harris / We Wear Our Flesh Like Flames
● Hannan Saleh / Girl in Flames
● Ta'Shia Asanti / Death by Marriage
● Marilyn Fleming / The Runaways
● Danielle Legros Georges / The List Grows
● Theodore A. Harris / Resistance to Repression
● Farai Chideya / Free Trade, Free Cuba
● Theodore A. Harris / Our Bones Have Numbers on Them
● Willie Perdomo / Ten Pound Draw
● Samiya A. Bashir / American Visa
● Sheila L. Prevost / Afro-American
● Okey Ndibe / Coming to America
● Marlon Billups / Illegal Ingrate
● Mtume ya Salaam / Criticism of Political Rap
● Angela A. Williams / Color in My Life
● Quashelle Curtis / Hip-Hop Barbie
● Evie Shockley / wanda jean allen and the state
● Kim Mayhorn / Black Boxisms : Visiting Room
● Stephanie Mwandishi Gadlin / Dear Mama : Remember That Rose Water
● Michael Simanga / Libations for Pharaoh
● Johnalynn Holland / Less
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / public school
● Deborah Vaughan / Casualties
● Sheila L. Prevost / Imprisonment
● Angel Kyodo Williams / Ten Precepts of a Zen Peacemaker
Role Call Is a Journey Through the Tropics of Black Rage, Black Love and Black Fire.
Black Love.
● Theodore A. Harris / Meditations for Betty Shabazz
● Toni Assante Lightfoot / What Love Is
● Melissa McEwen / Love Bigger Than Yankee Stadium
● Kenneth L. Addison / Sins of the Father
● Melanie Hope / Labor Poem #2
● Cheryl L. Minor / Nile & Onan Sitting on a Stoop Eating Ices
● Lita Hooper / Illuminata
● Bryant Smith / Dream Child
● Crystal Williams / The First Time I Saw Flo-Jo
● Bro. Yao / Let This Cover You When You Sleep
● Sheree Renée Thomas / The Last Moonsong
● Johnalynn Holland / My Grandmother's Camera
● Major L. Jackson / Mr. Pate's Barbershop
● Anthony Walton / Gwendolyn Brooks
● Michael Guinn / A Tribute to Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks
● Angela Shannon / Hydrangeas
● Lenard D. Moore / Speaksong
● Jessica Care Moore / Apple Seed
● Jenoyne Adams / I removed your picture from the brass frame
● Calida Garcia / Woman
● Rebecca Strait / I Hate Your Guts
● Renaldo Davidson / Nina
● Melissa McEwen / Sarah Nell
● Gregory Pardlo / The Future as Evaporation
● Toni Assante Lightfoot / Choices
● Charlie R. Braxton / a Terrorist's Prayer
● Changamire Semakokiro / #6
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / The Availability of Lead
● Charlie R. Braxton / Apocalypse
● Eric Mack / MVB-57
Black Rage
● Michael Datcher / Jah Witnesses
● Elizabeth Alexander / Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection
● Gina M. Streaty / In Elijah's Fields
● Kim Mayhorn / detail - "A Woman was Lynched The Other Day"
● DJ Renegade / What's Painted on the Walls
● Taj Greenlee / mercury & the monk
● Sheila L. Prevost / Broken System
● Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite / Grind
● Kevin Powell / Trees on our backs
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / Smolder
● Nikky Finney / The Sound of Burning Hair
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
Black Fire
● Quashelle Curtis / Love Punany Bad
● Shayla Hawkins / Cakewalk
● John Abner / The Plan
● Bryant Smith / Identification Please
● G.E. Patterson / Autobiography of a Black Man
● John Keene / As for the Body
● Tony Medina / Long Days Journey
● Yona Harvey / The Receptionist-part one
● Kazim Ali / The Algebra of X
● Renaldo Davidson / God Is Love So Are They
● Carol Allen / Future
● Kevin Powell / Struggle
●Starr Aché / Hold Up, Motherfucka!
● Stevenson Estimé / #9
● The Editors / Intro: Call & Response
What is the Role of Today's Emerging Young Artists in the Current Struggle for Equality and Justice?
● John Abner / Future Generation
● Askhari / I Write
● Pamela Plummer / Sankofa
● Kim Mayhorn / Aya
● Adrian Castro / Incantation for the Word
● Eric Mack / Percussion Permeates
● Jeremiah Hoseah Landes / How Music Relates to the Brain
● Jeremiah Hoseah Landes / No One's Slave
● Natasha Tarpley / From Girl in the Mirror
● Angela Shannon / Dear Mama
● Staceyann Chin / I Am My Mother
● Kim Louise / Sticks and Stones
● Kim Mayhorn / detail -"A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day"
● Gina M. Streaty / Case of Blues
● Allison Joseph / Homage to Leonardo Drew's Number Eight
● Jabari Asim / Dumas
● Shane Book / Believe Me
● Sheila L. Prevost / The Poet
● DJ Renegade / The Good Doctor Writes
● G. Winston James / After the Verdict
● Brian Gilmore / Larry
● Johnalynn Holland / Kofi
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Harbors and Spirits
● Tony Medina / Coltrane Spoke to Me One Night
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / The Role Call
How Do the Voices of the Next Generation Define the Issues and Politics of Today?
● John Abner / America in Control
● r.c. glenn / on the use of charliebrown/teachatalk
● Morgan Michael Craft / Music, man, what is it gonna be?
● Sheila L. Prevost / The Rapper
● Kevin Young / Guernica
● Kate Rushin / We play in the Do-It-Yourself family rooms
● Tyehimba Jess / retired, ronald reagan sits in his dayroom
● Samiya A. Bashir / blood and wine
● Shaggy Flores / Corporate America comes to El Barrio
● Calida Garcia / Jobless
● Charlie R. Braxton / The Bird Cage Bunch
● Kysha N. Brown / Survivors
● Renaldo Davidson / Faces
● Tish Benson / Callin Out Ya Uncle
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / returned to sender
● Andrea M. Wren / Dear Daddy
● Kate Rushin / Reba is a State Child and what you call fast
● Samiya A. Bashir / Berneatha's Story
● Dael Orlandersmith / Excerpt from Monster
● Brigette M. Moore / Who's Afraid of a Black Grrrl Revolution?
● Tara Betts / What It's Like to Be a Mixed Girl
● Carol Smith Passariello / Growing Wild
● Kenneth L. Addison / Braiding Rituals
● Shara McCallum / Poem Where My Mother and Father are Absent
● Melanie Hope / The Zoo
● Jacqueline Johnson / Celebration
● Jill Robinson / Black or American
● Derrick Adams / Untitled [from “The consumer series”]
● Terrence Hayes / What I Am
● Kraig A. Blue / My Environment
● Nancy Mercado / Justice in the Techno Age
● Theodore A. Harris / Arriving with Orders from Shaka Sankofa
● s.r. bonafide / War Pigs
● Farai Chideya / Cheney and Mandela : Reconciling the Truth
● Tony Medina / Cleaning the White House Latrine
● Tim Seibles / The Future Adventures of Tutor the Turtle
● Theodore A. Harris / The Cross, the Gun, Necklacing and Black People
● Kelly Norman Ellis / The Bush Boys
● Pamela Sneed / Turtle Eggs
● Edwin Torres / Mother Tongue : Unman Chant
● Lisa C. Moore / The Power of the Press
● Sheila L. Prevost / Lethal
● Tim Seibles / Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Role Call
● Contributors
Role Call is an Exploration of Our Current Cultural Landscape in Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts and Theater-on-the-Page.
● Shirley Carter / Girl Child, Paw Ain't no MLK
● Artress Bethany White / This City Has a Broken Halo
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Catechism
● Shara McCallum / Mother Love
● Shara McCallum / Untitled
● Roy L. Pickering Jr. / Mama's Boy
● Renaldo Davidson / Kneeling Figure
● Clairesa Clay / The Sweeper's Job
● Shirley Carter / The Month of May
● Kim Ransom / seven
● Shirley Carter / I Did Not Intend to Live Past the Knowing
● Lyrae Van Clieff-Stefanon / Eight
● Kenneth L. Addison / Blue Paloma
● Daniel Black / A Father's Love
● John Abner / Allow Him to Parent
● Shay Youngblood / My Body is Bread
● Tim Seibles / Back
● Kiini Ibura Salaam / Sex When I Don't Want It
● Gwendolyn Mitchell / Sometimes There Are No Words
● Esther Iverem / Every Morning
● Emily Hooper Lansana / Second Birth
● Antoinette Pressley-Sanon / Reach for the Sun
● Staceyann Chin / My Mother Left Me Long Before I Was Born
● Shara McCallum / Jamaica Farewell
● Quashelle Curtis / Babylon Queens
● Kagendo / Irresistible Intentions
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Auld Lang Syne
● John Abner / Daily News
● Frank X Walker / Son Rise
● R. Erica Doyle / Social Security
● Stevenson Estimé / Bodega Optimo
● Arthur Ade Amaker / Crematorium
● Brian Gilmore / dreamy blues
● Lenard D. Moore / Haiku
● Jabari Asim / Passing the Middle
● Sheila L. Prevost / Lynching
● Darlene Anita Scott / black men don't kill themselves
● Kenneth Carroll / The First (and last) Anti-Clinton poem
● Reginald Harris / New Rules of the Road
● Edwin Torres / A Story for America
● Kevin Young / Negative
● Eric Mack / Vibrate Plain
● Doug Jones / Clash of Denial
● Lita Hooper / The House of Dangerous Surprise
● Janeé Bolden / Soundtrack for Us
● Jenoyne Adams / The Inside
● Calida Garcia / Berry
● Melissa McEwen / On Days
● Kysha N. Brown / When Lost, Ask for Directions
Role Call is a Litmus Test of- and a Call to Arms to- a Generation Grown Fat on the Limited Freedoms Won by the Civil Rights Struggle.
● Shirley Carter / Is Excess Sin
● Lissette Norman / Warning
● Samiya A. Bashir / The Escape
● Anthony Butts / The Ghost of Orpheus
● Theodore A. Harris / The Bible and the gun
● Kevin Young / Irony of Negro Policeman
● Sharrif Simmons / There Is An Emptiness Approaching
● Navin June Norling / Alive
● Holly Bass / better roses
● John Abner / What Now? Losing Communication
● Carl Hancock Rux / P.S.
● Ayesha J. Gallion / Atonia
● Kenneth L. Addison / Goodnight California
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / L.A. Suite
● Stevenson Estimé / Cash, Media & Math
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / New Recipe
● Melanie Hope / That Midnight Train to Georgia
● James E. Cherry / On Hearing of the Death of Gwendolyn Brooks
● Eisa Davis / 1977
● Gregory Pardlo / Arsonist
● Nikky Finney / Making Foots
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / I was There Once
● Rohan B. Preston / To the Winners
● John Keene / Try to Remember that South African Man
● Akintiunde / Thoughts on Those Flags
● Nikky Finney / The Butt of the Joke
● Shirley Carter / Children of the Sun
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Glory
● Douglas Kearney / Pasadena City Hall, April 29, 1992
● Kenneth L. Addison / 33 Fisher Ave.
● Kate Rushin / Have You Seen Them?
● Jacqueline P. Banyon / Boys Think
● R. Gregory Christie / George Washington
● r.c. glenn / those innocent eyes once weren't
Role Call Takes on Race, Sexuality, Education, Nationalism, Spirituality, AIDS, Globalization, Hip Hop and the Prison Industrial Complex.
● Derrick Adams / Untitled [ from “The Consumer series”]
● Samiya A. Bashir / Narcissus Sits by the River to Take the S.A.T.
● Natasha Trethewey / Gesture of a Woman-in-Process
● Calida Garcia / Retaining Dignity
● Catherine McKinley / Excerpt [ from “The Book of Sarahs, Part I”]
● Quashelle Curtis / Nemsi
● Catherine McKinley / Excerpt [ from “The Book of Sarahs, Part II”]
● Renaldo Davidson / Girl in Crib
● Nelson Demery III / Detailing the Nape
● Eisa Davis / Paper Armor
● Edwin Torres / The Storm Beneath the Bone
● Hannan Saleh / Silhouette with Barbed Wire
● R. Erica Doyle / You in America Now
● Duriel E. Harris / Drive
● Bruce Morrow / Evidence
● Reginald Harris / What I Brought to the Family Reunion
● Nichole L. Shields / Cousin Rita
● Faith Sangoma / Survivor Rememory
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Faggot
● Nichole L. Shields / She
● Nelson Demery III / Silent Languages
● Sharon Bridgforth / bull-jean slipn in
● Karma Mayet Johnson / Cum. Cum.
● Sharon Bridgforth / bull-jean & trouble
● Jacqueline Woodson / Excerpt [ from “The singer”]
● Marvin K. White / where the boys are
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Period
● Angela Shannon / First Day
● Sharan Strange / Snow
● Kim Mayhorn / Home Speech
● Andre O. Hoilette / Plenilunium
● Toni Asante Lightfoot / Scribulus
● Nancy Mercado / Lyric for a New Life
● Charlie R. Braxton / Juking at Miz Annie's
● Natasha Trethewey / Microscope
● Sheree Renée Thomas / For the Distinguished Historian…
● Rosa Clemente / Who is Black?
● Alicia Vogl Sáenz / At the Olmec Exhibit in Washington, D.C.
● Staceyann Chin / My Love Affair with Jamaica
● Jiton Sharmayne Davidson / Evil Gettin' There
● Kenneth L. Addison / Street Corner Revival
● Letta Neely / gawd and alluh huh sistahs
● DJ Renegade / The Goode Lorde
● Kim Mayhorn / A Woman was Lynched the Other Day
● Carol Smith Passariello / Moontime & Mezuzahs
● Antoinette Pressley-Sanon / Three Market Women
● Adrian Castro / When She Carried a Calabash
● Angela Hodison-Malele / The Eyes That Never Left Mine
● G. Winston James / Through It All
● Danielle Legros Georges / Vellum
● Thomas Glave / A Real Place
● Major L. Jackson / Pest
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / statement on the killing of patrick dorismond
● Rohan B. Preston / Bone Memories
● Willie Perdomo / You Pay for What You Get
● Theodore A. Harris / Human-Murderers
● Theodore A. Harris / We Wear Our Flesh Like Flames
● Hannan Saleh / Girl in Flames
● Ta'Shia Asanti / Death by Marriage
● Marilyn Fleming / The Runaways
● Danielle Legros Georges / The List Grows
● Theodore A. Harris / Resistance to Repression
● Farai Chideya / Free Trade, Free Cuba
● Theodore A. Harris / Our Bones Have Numbers on Them
● Willie Perdomo / Ten Pound Draw
● Samiya A. Bashir / American Visa
● Sheila L. Prevost / Afro-American
● Okey Ndibe / Coming to America
● Marlon Billups / Illegal Ingrate
● Mtume ya Salaam / Criticism of Political Rap
● Angela A. Williams / Color in My Life
● Quashelle Curtis / Hip-Hop Barbie
● Evie Shockley / wanda jean allen and the state
● Kim Mayhorn / Black Boxisms : Visiting Room
● Stephanie Mwandishi Gadlin / Dear Mama : Remember That Rose Water
● Michael Simanga / Libations for Pharaoh
● Johnalynn Holland / Less
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / public school
● Deborah Vaughan / Casualties
● Sheila L. Prevost / Imprisonment
● Angel Kyodo Williams / Ten Precepts of a Zen Peacemaker
Role Call Is a Journey Through the Tropics of Black Rage, Black Love and Black Fire.
Black Love.
● Theodore A. Harris / Meditations for Betty Shabazz
● Toni Assante Lightfoot / What Love Is
● Melissa McEwen / Love Bigger Than Yankee Stadium
● Kenneth L. Addison / Sins of the Father
● Melanie Hope / Labor Poem #2
● Cheryl L. Minor / Nile & Onan Sitting on a Stoop Eating Ices
● Lita Hooper / Illuminata
● Bryant Smith / Dream Child
● Crystal Williams / The First Time I Saw Flo-Jo
● Bro. Yao / Let This Cover You When You Sleep
● Sheree Renée Thomas / The Last Moonsong
● Johnalynn Holland / My Grandmother's Camera
● Major L. Jackson / Mr. Pate's Barbershop
● Anthony Walton / Gwendolyn Brooks
● Michael Guinn / A Tribute to Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks
● Angela Shannon / Hydrangeas
● Lenard D. Moore / Speaksong
● Jessica Care Moore / Apple Seed
● Jenoyne Adams / I removed your picture from the brass frame
● Calida Garcia / Woman
● Rebecca Strait / I Hate Your Guts
● Renaldo Davidson / Nina
● Melissa McEwen / Sarah Nell
● Gregory Pardlo / The Future as Evaporation
● Toni Assante Lightfoot / Choices
● Charlie R. Braxton / a Terrorist's Prayer
● Changamire Semakokiro / #6
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / The Availability of Lead
● Charlie R. Braxton / Apocalypse
● Eric Mack / MVB-57
Black Rage
● Michael Datcher / Jah Witnesses
● Elizabeth Alexander / Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection
● Gina M. Streaty / In Elijah's Fields
● Kim Mayhorn / detail - "A Woman was Lynched The Other Day"
● DJ Renegade / What's Painted on the Walls
● Taj Greenlee / mercury & the monk
● Sheila L. Prevost / Broken System
● Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite / Grind
● Kevin Powell / Trees on our backs
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / Smolder
● Nikky Finney / The Sound of Burning Hair
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
Black Fire
● Quashelle Curtis / Love Punany Bad
● Shayla Hawkins / Cakewalk
● John Abner / The Plan
● Bryant Smith / Identification Please
● G.E. Patterson / Autobiography of a Black Man
● John Keene / As for the Body
● Tony Medina / Long Days Journey
● Yona Harvey / The Receptionist-part one
● Kazim Ali / The Algebra of X
● Renaldo Davidson / God Is Love So Are They
● Carol Allen / Future
● Kevin Powell / Struggle
●Starr Aché / Hold Up, Motherfucka!
● Stevenson Estimé / #9
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A0366