Anthologies of African American Writing

Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

"Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans" . Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. 305 pp.

● Introduction

● Lloyd Addison / I by you put on
● Lloyd Addison / After MLK
● Lloyd Addison / All the things of which there are none
● Lloyd Addison / Umbra
● William Anderson / There's Not a Friend like the Lovely Jesus
● Russell Atkins / It's Here in the
● Russell Atkins / Probability and Birds
● Russell Atkins / While Waiting for a Friend to Come to Visit a Friend in a Mental Hospital
● Russell Atkins / Spyrytual
● Russell Atkins / Lines in Recollection
● Russell Atkins / "the L L L"
● Russell Atkins / Furious'd Garb
● Russell Atkins / Night and a Distant Church
● Russell Atkins / Christophe
● Russell Atkins / Irritable Songs
● Russell Atkins / Narrative
● Russell Atkins / At Night Keep Still
● Russell Atkins / Imaginary Crimes in a Real Garden
● Amiri Baraka / Biography
● Amiri Baraka / The violence of the mind is the violence of God
● Amiri Baraka / How People Do
● Amiri Baraka / The Heavy
● Amiri Baraka / Lefty
● Amiri Baraka / Node
● Amiri Baraka / The A, B, C's
● Amiri Baraka / I Investigate the Sun
● Amiri Baraka / Courageousness
● Amiri Baraka / The City of New Ark
● Jodi Braxton / Conversion
● Harold Carrington / Lament
● Harold Carrington / Woo's People
● Harold Carrington / sting—a south carolina ave. folk tale
● Stephen Chambers / Her
● Jayne Cortez / Drying Spit Blues
● Jayne Cortez / Under the Edge of February
● Jayne Cortez / Phraseology
● Jayne Cortez / Indelible
● Jayne Cortez / Opening Act
● Jayne Cortez / Into This Time
● Lawrence S. Cumberbatch / I Swear to You, That Ship Never Sunk in Middle-Passage!
● Lawrence S. Cumberbatch / Again the Summoning
● Lawrence S. Cumberbatch / In the Early Morning Breeze
● Rudy Bee Graham / A LYNCHING FOR SKIP JAMES
● Rudy Bee Graham / Without Shadow
● William J. Harris / A Grandfather Poem
● William J. Harris / Practical Concerns
● De Leon Harrison / A Collage for Richard Davis—Two Short Forms
● De Leon Harrison / Formula for Blue Blues Babies
● De Leon Harrison / Yellow
● David Henderson / Downtown-Boy Uptown
● David Henderson / Sketches of Harlem
● David Henderson / In Williams
● David Henderson / Lock City
● David Henderson / Blackman in the Desecrated Synagogue—Living in the Last Days
● Calvin Hernton / Being Exit in the World
● Calvin Hernton / The Wall
● Calvin Hernton / Medicine Man
● Joseph Jarman / "what we all"
● Joseph Jarman / "Non-cognitive aspects of the City"
● Ted Joans / The Overloaded Horse
● Percy Johnston / Round About Midnight, Opus #6
● Percy Johnston / Lexington Avenue Express
● Percy Johnston / to paul robeson, opus no. 3
● Percy Johnston / Dewey Square, 1956
● Percy Johnston / BLAUPUNKT
● Stephen Jonas / For LeRoi Jones
● Stephen Jonas / BOOK V
● Stephen Jonas /“.. An Ear Injured by Hearing Things"
● Stephen Jonas / Orgasm 0
● Stephen Jonas / A MUDDLE
● Stephen Jonas / A LITTLE MAGIC
● Stephen Jonas / lens
● Stephen Jonas / IV
● Stephen Jonas / “what you can see”
● June Jordan / All the World Moved
● June Jordan / Toward a Personal Semantics
● June Jordan / San Juan
● June Jordan / Bus Window
● Bob Kaufman / I Have Folded My Sorrows
● Bob Kaufman / East Fifth Street (N.Y.)
● Bob Kaufman / Lorca
● Bob Kaufman / Picasso's Balcony
● Bob Kaufman / NOVELS FROM A FRAGMENT IN PROGRESS
● Bob Kaufman / THE CELEBRATED WHITE-CAP SPELLING BEE
● Bob Kaufman / Oregon
● Bob Kaufman / A Terror Is More Certain
● Bob Kaufman / UNHISTORICAL EVENTS
● Bob Kaufman / The Biggest Fisherman
● Bob Kaufman / CROOTY SONGO
● Bob Kaufman / THE LATE LAMENTED WIND, BURNED IN INDIGNATION
● Elouise Loftin / A Black Lady
● Elouise Loftin / What Sunni Say
● Elouise Loftin / bkln
● Elouise Loftin / Barefoot Necklace
● Elouise Loftin / april '68
● Elouise Loftin / scabible
● N. J. Loftis / Changes—One
● N. J. Loftis / Changes — Five
● N. J. Loftis / Changes — Eight
● Clarence Major / Paragraph from English Speaking World
● Clarence Major / A Petition for Langston Hughes
● Clarence Major / Media on War
● Clarence Major / Edge Guide for Impression
● Clarence Major / News Story
● Clarence Major / A Poem Americans Are Going to Have to Memorize Soon
● Clarence Major / Education by Degrees
● Clarence Major / Not This—This Here!
● Clarence Major / Mortal Roundness
● Clarence Major / Pictures
● Clarence Major / Water USA
● Leroy McLucas / Negotiation
● Leroy McLucas / Graph
● Oliver Pitcher / "Why don't we rock the casket here in the moonlight?"
● Oliver Pitcher / Dust of Silence
● Oliver Pitcher / the remark
● Oliver Pitcher / formula for tragedy
● Oliver Pitcher / Washington Square: August Afternoon
● Oliver Pitcher / from Harlem: Sidewalk Icons
● Oliver Pitcher / The Infant
● Oliver Pitcher / Tango
● Oliver Pitcher / The Iconoclast's Closet
● Tom Postell / Gertrude Stein Rides the Town Down El
● Tom Postell / I Want a Solid Piece of Sunlight and a Yardstick to Measure it With
● Tom Postell / harmony
● Norman H. Pritchard / Magma
● Norman H. Pritchard / Asalteris
● Norman H. Pritchard / From Where the Blues?
● Norman H. Pritchard / Metagnomy
● Norman H. Pritchard / Gyre's Galax
● Norman H. Pritchard / '
● Norman H. Pritchard / junt
● Norman H. Pritchard / "WE NEED"
● Helen Quigless / Concert
● Ishmael Reed / Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin
● Ishmael Reed / Dualism in ralph ellison's invisible man
● Ishmael Reed / Badman of the guest professor
● Ishmael Reed / Poetry Makes Rhythm in Philosphy
● Ed Roberson / news continued release
● Ed Roberson / poll
● Ed Roberson / Four Lines of a Black Love Letter between Teachers
● Ed Roberson / On the Calligraphy of Black Chant
● Ed Roberson / "it must be that in the midst"
● Ed Roberson / any moment (12/4/69 4:30 A.M. chicago
● Ed Roberson / "american culture is the pot"
● A. B. Spellman / the beautiful day, V
● A. B. Spellman / john coltrane
● A. B. Spellman / the twist
● A. B. Spellman / Blues: My Baby's Gone
● A. B. Spellman / Did John's Music Kill Him?
● A. B. Spellman / The Truth You Carry Is Very Dark
● Primus St. John / All the Way Home
● Primus St. John / Benign Neglect / West Point, Mississippi, 1970
● Primus St. John / The Violence of Pronoun  
● Primus St. John / Studying
● Glenn Stokes / Blue Texarkana
● Cecil Taylor / Scroll No. 1
● Cecil Taylor / Scroll No. 2
● Cecil Taylor / "Da"
● Cecil Taylor / Choir
● Lorenzo Thomas / Inauguration
● Lorenzo Thomas / Embarkation for Cythera
● Lorenzo Thomas / Song
● Lorenzo Thomas / Twelve Gates
● Lorenzo Thomas / The Bathers
● Lorenzo Thomas / Another Poem in English
● Melvin B. Tolson / Dark Laughter
● Melvin B. Tolson / The Chitterling King
● Gloria Tropp / Poem for Ernie Henry
● Tom Weatherly / first monday scottsboro alabama
● Tom Weatherly / Canto 7
● Tom Weatherly / "vocal texts evoke"
● Tom Weatherly / "fishes"
● Tom Weatherly / "gandhabba" #5
● Tom Weatherly / "croatan"
● Tom Weatherly / Canto 10
● Tom Weatherly / p.w.t.

● Contributors
● Acknowledgments

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

"What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America." Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2015.

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