Anthologies of African American Writing

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade

"Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade." Ed. Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille T. Dungy. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006. 210 pp.

● Camille Dungy / Preface
● Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte, Elizabeth Alexander, and Harryette Mullen / Introduction

● M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde / For Mairead
● Opal Palmer Adisa / Peeling Off the Skin
● Elizabeth Alexander / When
● Lauren K. Alleyne / The Taste of Apples
● Holly Bass / seven crown man
● Venise N. Battle / Bop Poem
● Herman Beavers / LL. Benbow Relates the Circumstances Surrounding Vernell Spraggins's Recent Ejection from Hell
● Michelle Courtney Berry / Miranda Remembers Cuba, 1974
● Tara Betts / For Those Who Need a True Story
● Angela A. Bickham / Spirit Led
● Remica L. Bingham / Marchers Headed for Washington, Baltimore 1963
● Shane Book / H.N.I.C. (Head Nigger in Charge)
● Angela Brooks / Crossing Over
● Derrick Weston Brown / Thirty Mile Woman: Sixo’s Song
● Jericho Brown / Detailing the Nape
● Toni Brown / Dreadlocks
● Gloria Burgess / Blessing the Lepers
● C.M. Burroughs / Coil
● Lucille Clifton / [surely I am able to write poems]
● Taiyon Coleman / Sister
● Lauri Conner / Twelve Year Poem
● Curtis L. Crisler / Robbing Hoods
● Teri Ellen Cross / Haint
● Traci Dant / Standing Ground
● Kyle G. Dargan / Search for Robert Hayden
● Hayes Davis / Carapace
● Jarita Davis / Atlantic Coasts
● Kwame Dawes / Tall Man Flies
● Jarvis Q. Deberry / Juke Joint Josephine
● Toi Derricotte / my dad & sardines
● Joel Dias-Porter / A Love Supreme
● La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs / mug shot pedigree
● R. Erica Doyle / The Street of Look Behind
● Camille T. Dungy / Code
● Cornelius Eady / I'm a Fool to Love You
● Michele Elliot / Uncollected Ghazal
● Phebus Etienne / Music Lesson
● Chanda Feldman / True Autumn
● Nikky Finney / Stewards
● Reginald L. Flood / Worship
● Cherryl Floyd-Miller / is
● Krista Franklin / Saturday Nights at the Bug Inn, 1986
● John Frazier / A Human Landscape: On Coyotes
● Deidre R. Gantt / Corner Yard
● Ross Gay / Unclean. Make me.
● Regie O'Hare Gibson / Zeitgeist o: Zeitgeist 63-69
● Carmen R. Gillespi / Talkin' Back to Mama
● Aracelis Girmay / Palimpsest
● Monica A. Hand / of
● Michael S. Harper / Goodbye Porkpie Hat
● Duriel E. Harris / Phou
● francine j. harris / Coward
● Reginald Harris / MT in Solitary
● Yona Harvey / In Toni Morrison's Head
● Terrance Hayes / Pine
● Tonya Cherie Hegamin / Lovely’s Song
● Sean Hill / Nigger Street 1937
● Andre O. Hoilette / summer
● Lita Hooper / Love Worn
● Erica Hunt / Poem for a Second
● Kate Hymes / The Chosen One
● Linda Susan Jackson / from Urban Renewal, xvi: “What of my fourth grade teacher at Reynolds Elementary”
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Muse, a Lady Cautioning
● Tyehimba Jess / bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920
● Amaud Jamaul Johnson / Spirit of the Dead Watching
● Brandon D. Johnson / listen
● Karma Mayet Johnson / in the Quarter
● A. Van Jordan / Kind of Blue
● Carolyn C. Joyner / The Now of Aunt Marie
● John Keene / The Haymarket
● M. Nzadi Keita / soprano
● Ruth Ellen Kocher / Response to Pasiphae
● Yusef Komunyakaa / The Blue Hour
● Jacqueline Jones LaMon / Clair de Lune
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / long way home
● Carmelo Larose / The Sniff
● Virginia K. Lee / Yellow Is in the Eye of the Beholder
● Raina J. Leon / Christ and Magdalene
● Doughtry "Doc" Long / The Devil Is Beating His Wife Again
● Kenyetta Lovings / Artificial Insemination of a Working-Class Lesbian
● Adrian Matejka / Understanding Al Green
● Shara McCallum / An Offering
● Carrie Allen McCray / The First Time We Heard "Flyin' Home"
● Ernesto Mercer / One More Silver Dollar
● Dante Micheaux / The Temple of Greed & Mildew
● Jonathan Moody / Relapse of Winter in Frankfurt
● Kamilah Aisha Moon / What a Snakehead Discovered in a Maryland Pond and a Poet in Corporate America Have in Common
● Indigo Moor / Tap-Root
● Lenard D. Moore / A Quiet Rhythm of Sleep
● Harryette Mullen / Drinking Mojitos in Cuba Libre
● Marilyn Nelson / Woman with a Chignon
● Mendi Lewis Obadike / In The Way That Longing Is, a sonnet cento for Cave Canem
● Gregory Pardlo / Winter After the Strike
● Carlo Toli Paul / The only shine on the Titanic
● Gwen Triay Samuels / Ode to the Triays of Amelia
● Sonia Sanchez / Under a Soprano Sky
● Tim Seibles / Ambition: II. Mosquito in the Mist
● Elaine Shelly / W.E.B. in Ghana
● Cherene Sherrard / Parade of Flesh
● Kevin Simmonds / The Poet, 1955
● Patricia Smith / Asking for a Heart Attack
● Tracy K. Smith / Duende
● Christina Springer / Exile Propriety
● Christopher Stackhouse / Mete
● Nicole Terez / border town
● Amber Flora Thomas / Dress
● Samantha Thornbill / West Indian Girl Contemplates the Push
● Venus Thrash / Wild Like That
● Natasha Trethewey / Miscegenation
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Maul
● Wendy S. Walters / Prophet as Slow Bird
● Nagueyalti Warren / Silver Rights
● Afaa Michael Weaver / Charleston
● Arisa White / 259 Brooklyn Avenue
● Simone White / The Early Brilliance of Dwayne
● Carolyn Beard Whitlow / Book of Ruth
● Karen Williams / These Bones
● Treasure Williams / prescription or for what ails you or poetry on demand
● Bridgette A. Wimberly / Garden of Eden Blues
● Yolanda Wisher / Nola
● Toni Wynn / Good News from the River
● Al Young / To Go for Broke
● Kevin Young / Hard Headed Blues

● Contributors
● Acknowledgements

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