Anthologies of African American Writing

Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry

"Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry." Ed. Keith Tuma. Oxford, Ohio: Miami UP, 2005. xiv+226 pp.

● Keith Tuma / Preface
● Evie Shockley / All of the Above: Multiple Choice and African American Poetry
● Aldon Nielsen / Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Prayer to Eshbu-Elegba
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Hunger
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Mud Wit
● Jeffrey Renard Allen / Deep Rock
● Wanda Coleman / Three-Headed Womon Song
● Wanda Coleman / Notes on a Departure
● Wanda Coleman / Metaphysically Niggarish
● Wanda Coleman / The African Beneath the American
● C.S. Giscombe / The Black River
● C.S. Giscombe / Home Avenue
● C.S. Giscombe / Ballad Values (2)
● C.S. Giscombe / Light, Bright, Etc.
● C.S. Giscombe / Negromania, Negrophilia, Negrophobia
● Terrance Hayes / Mute Trout
● Terrance Hayes / Ohio River Region
● Terrance Hayes / Nothing
● Kim Hunter / accident in a naked place
● Kim Hunter / i worked on race at the factory
● Kim Hunter / no like place
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Philly in the Light
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Another Easter Poem
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Instructions for Academic Poets Who Talk to God
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Tuscaloosa: Riversong
● Nathaniel Mackey / Song of the Andoumboulou: 58
● Nathaniel Mackey / Song of the Andoumboulou: 62
● Tracie Morris / Apology to Pangea
● Tracie Morris / From “The Myomectomy Cycle”
● Harryette Mullen / Unacknowledged Legislator
● Harryette Mullen / Headlines
● Harryette Mullen / Bumper to Bumper
● Harryette Mullen / #6 Sepulveda
● Harryette Mullen / Broken Glish
● Harryette Mullen / Drinking Mojitos in Cuba Libre
● Harryette Mullen / Mermaid of Palmares
● Harryette Mullen / El Malecón
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / Fifteen
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / Protest Poem
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / Tradition/Abstraction
● James Richardson / Parnassus Rising
● James Richardson / J-O-Y
● James Richardson / My Man Caliban!
● James Richardson / A First Lady Challenges a Loa-as-Poem
● Tim Seibles / 4AM
● Tim Seibles / Friend and Beloved
● Tim Seibles / Douglass, a Last Letter
● Reginald Shepherd / Refrain
● Reginald Shepherd / Boy, Allegorically Deployed
● Reginald Shepherd / Itinerary
● Reginald Shepherd / Homeric Interim
● Reginald Shepherd / Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
● Reginald Shepherd / Self-Portrait in the New World Order
● Evie Shockley / -shall become as-
● Evie Shockley / cause i'm from dixie too
● Evie Shockley / From “The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass”
● Evie Shockley / my last modernist poem, #2 (or, mugshot)
● Lorenzo Thomas / Downtown Boom
● Lorenzo Thomas / Discovering America Again
● Lorenzo Thomas / Souvenir of the Manassah Ball
● Natasha Trethewey / Bellocq’s Ophelia
● Natasha Trethewey / Letter Home
● Natasha Trethewey / From “Storyville Diary (Self) Portrait”
● Natasha Trethewey / Vignette
● Anthony Walton / Dissidence
● Anthony Walton / Gwendolyn Brooks
● Anthony Walton / The Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues
● Anthony Walton / McDonald’s, Scottsboro, April, 1997
● Anthony Walton / Elegy for Joan (1955-1986)
● Crystal Williams / Happiness
● Crystal Williams / Ritual
● Crystal Williams / On Forgetting Your Father’s Face
● Crystal Williams / Negro Survival 101 or Poem for Tiger Woods and Other Multiethnic Other’s
● Crystal Williams / Sugar
● Crystal Williams / Shop Sonnet
● Tyrone Williams / So We Are Told To Write Down [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Plan B—Walk, Listen [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Planet X [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Planned Community [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Other Wards of the Hospice [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue)
● Tyrone Williams / Brief [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Closing (as) [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / Ditto (at) [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / P.P.S. (am) [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Tyrone Williams / To To Speak [from the poem, Ask-Vubba: A Decalogue]
● Herman Beavers / The Archival Impulse in African American Poetry: Playing in the Past
● Kathy Lou Schultz / Small Press, Big Wor(l)ds: African American Poetry from Publisher to Archive
● Lorenzo Thomas / Our Heritage of Many Voices: Plenary Address

● Contributors
● Acknowledgements

• Phllips, Rowan R. "Chicago Review" 54.4 (2009): 120-33.

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