Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South
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Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South
This edition
"The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South" . Ed. Nikky Finney. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xxiv+405 pp.
Table of contents
● Acknowledgments
● Heirlooms and Introductions
Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Dirty Rice
● Chanda Feldman / Rabbit
● Christopher Gilbert / Time with Stevie Wonder in It
● M. Nzadi Keita / Night Shift/Day Shift
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Don’t Know What Love Is
● Sean Hill / Joe Chappel’s Foot Log Bottom Blues, 1952
● Frank X Walker / Glutton
● Ebony Golden / back in blues
● Traci Dant / Fish
● Ebony Golden / red onion hoodoo
● Sharan Strange / Night Work
● Yvonne Jackson / Doing Hair
● Remica L. Bingham / Simmie Knox Paints Bill Clinton for the White House
● Vida Henderson / The Boucherie
● Taiyon Coleman / Catfish
● Cornelius Eady / Miss Look’s Dream (Miss Look)
● Lenard D. Moore / The Migrants
● Yusef Komunyakaa / The Whistle
● Robin Caudell / Red Blessings
● Natasha Trethewey / At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950
● Yolanda Wisher / Pea Song
● Carrie Allen McCray / Intermittent Requiems for Bud
● Kevin Simmonds / Witness
● Kalamu ya Salaam / The Spice of Life
● Evie Shockley / The Quilter
● Nathaniel Mackey / Sound and Semblance
● Suzanne Jackson / Cookout
● Cherene Sherrard / Watermelon Repast
● Joanne Gabbin / Pot Meals
● Jaki Shelton Green / i know the grandmother one had hands
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Smoke
● Forrest Hamer / Middle Ear
Swimming, Childhood, and Other Thunders: Don’t Get Your Hot Hair Wet or Your Good Shoes Dirty
● Sharan Strange / How to Teach Them
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Immolatus
● Nikki Giovanni / Nikki-Rosa
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Lessons in Trailer Living
● Stephanie Pruitt / Hair Raising
● Reuben Jackson / 1957
● Sam Ragland / Manhood
● Lauri Conner / what she will remember
● Indigo Moor / Splinter of the Path
● Chanda Feldman / Fusion
● Mitchell L.H. Douglas / On the first drive-by
● Vida Henderson / Mama Gertie Bell Speaks to Her Granddaughter
● Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson / My Best Day
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Nicknames
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Journeyman
● Cornelius Eady / Buckwheat’s Lament
● Cherryl Floyd-Miller / bull
● Yvonne Jackson / How to Make It
● Reuben Jackson / key west
● Colleen J. McElroy / Eads Bridge Boogie Across the Mississippi
● Shirlette Ammons / History Makes Concessions for White Boys
● Meta DuEwa Jones / Black Hymnal
● Kevin Young / The Dry Spell
● Curtis Crisler / Spectaculations
● LaVon Rice / Ghazal for My Mother
Religion and Nature: The Lord Looks Out for Babies and Fools; The Anvil of Heaven Murmuring
● M. Nzadi Keita / Sunday
● Kevin Young / How to Make Rain
● Rachel Nelson / The Tire Plant Is Struck by Lightning
● Alvin Aubert / Baptism
● Ronald Dorris / St. Philip Blues
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Quarter Moon Rise
● DeLana Dameron / Israelites
● Cherene Sherrard / Picnic
● Sheree Renée Thomas / Lightning bug reflects
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / The Reason I Know the Devil Is Mean
● Alvin Aubert / Nat Turner in the Clearing
● jaye farren / prelude to a new plague
● Jericho Brown / Speaking in Tongues
● Rachel Nelson / My Mother’s Tornado
● Kevin Simmonds / Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me
● Forrest Hamer / Goldsboro Narrative #20
● Earl Braggs / Storm Named Earl
His and Her Story: The Myth and Rumble of Memory under the Hammer of Jeopardy
● Truth Thomas / Harriet Tubman’s Email 2 Master
● Holly Bass / seven crown man
● Kevin Young / Reward
● J.W. Richardson / The Politics of Breathing
● Harryette Mullen / We Are Not Responsible
● Kendra Hamilton / The Good Funeral
● Cornelius Eady / My Heart
● Sean Hill / Hands, 1921
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
● Camille T. Dungy “Dinah in the Box"
● Pamela Plummer / reply to grandma taylor
● Cynthia Parker-Ohene / the kelley women: a story of africans and romas
● Stephanie Pruitt / Mississippi Gardens
● Hermine Pinson / Southland
● Reginald Harris / On The Road
● Jaki Shelton Green / redemption lullaby 2
● Cherryl Floyd-Miller / Clay
● Alvin Aubert / Spring 1937
● Frank X Walker / Nosotros
● Traci Dant / Laughing Strong
● jaye farren / between witches
● Sharan Strange / Claim
● Duriel E. Harris / specimen
● Niki Herd / In the Company of Women
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Fountain
● Jacqueline Jones LaMon / Chaperone on the Chicago Charter
● Robin Caudell / West of Dawn
● Nagueyalti Warren / Frederick Douglass to Three Young Men, Waiting
● Parneshia Jones / Resurrection under the Moon
● Kamilah Aisha Moon / Five
● Houston Baker Jr. / Another Man
● Yusef Komunyakaa / You Made Me
Love, Flesh, and Family: The Hush and Holler Portraits
● Sean Hill / Elegy For an Older Brother, 1922
● Jericho Brown / Like Father
● Gloria Burgess / Sanctuary
● Colleen J. McElroy / Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
● Kendra Hamilton / Porch Monkey
● Truth Thomas / Mississippi Fretless
● Houston Baker Jr. / In the Break
● Zetta Elliott / dancing with anger
● Christopher Gilbert / She
● Holly Bass / A Good Showing
● Mendi Obadike / Tradition/Abstraction
● Sheree Renée Thomas / sky in west memphis
● Lita Hooper / Photo of My Mother
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Good Times
● Chanda Feldman / My Father Stands at the Mississippi River Bridge
● Askhari / Someplace below the Mason Dixion
● Cherene Sherrard / Girls Named Peaches
● Yolanda Wisher / Ms. Gladys Debro
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / cleaning graves in calvert
● Cynthia Parker-Ohene / Prevalence of Ritual
● Opal Moore / leaving mississippi
● Linda Susan Jackson / A History of Beauty
● Traci Dant / A Twice Named Family
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / Juke Joint Josephine
● Niki Herd / girl meets girl
● jaye farren / martha will go looking for jesse again
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Dinah
The Echo and Din of Place: Turn in by the Silver Queen and Double Twisted Pine
● Randall Horton / The Definition of Place, 1963
● Natasha Tretheway / Collection Day
● Mendi Obadike / A Far Cry
● Forrest Hamer / Letter from Cuba
● Camille T. Dungy / Farm Bureau Advisor
● Kevin Young / Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
● Zetta Elliott / what if we’d had a bullet
● Kevin Simmonds / Charleston Inferno
● Askhari / Haiku 12005
● Lauri Conner / Crum Road, Lyons, Mississippi
● Gwen Triay Samuels / Ode to the Triays of Amelia
● Mitchell L.H. Douglas / Huddle House
● Brandon D. Johnson / At Junie’s
● Paula White Jackson / Scintillating stars
● Paula White Jackson / April’s black canvas
● Carrie Allen McCray / Harlem Cats
● Lenard D. Moore / Barking
● Patricia Johnson / in a place where
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Garden
● Remica L. Bingham / O’Connor’s South
● Duriel E. Harris / bliss: geophagy
● Amanda Johnston / Bowing in the Church of Beauty
● Matilda Cox / Awake
● Teri Elam-Blanchard / in my neighborhood just north of atlanta
● Sean Hill / Milledgeville Haibun
● Naomi Long Madgett / Fifth Street Exit, Richmond
● Reginald Harris / Summer Night, McNasby’s Pier, 1968
● E. Ethelbert Miller / duke
● Earl Braggs / Of Course the Brochure Doesn’t Mention Mrs. Abbott
● Nikki Giovanni / Knoxville, Tennessee
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Between Angels & Monsters
● Sonia Sanchez / On Passing thru Morgantown
● Christian Campbell / Song of the South
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Our Natures Rise
● Cornelius Eady / Home (Running Man)
● Al Young / Landscape Mode
● Chanda Feldman / True Autumn
● Reuben Jackson / Driving South
● Truth Thomas / I love It When You Call Me Big Country
The Twenty-First-Century Southern Riff and Shout: Modern Lullabies for Planet Octavia
● Harryette Mullen / Ectopia
● Meta DuEwa Jones / Graphs: Photos from a Traveler
● Cherene Sherrard / Residual
● Sonia Sanchez / I Have Walked a Long Time
● jaye farren / saturday & a glimpse of sunday
● Askhari / Haiku 142005
● Treasure Williams / community day
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Afronauts
● Frank X Walker / We Real Crunk
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / Diovan HCT 160MG
● David Mills / Three the Hard Way
● Dante Micheaux / Lawn Jockey
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Poem For Amadou Diallo
● Douglas Kearney / Bid Thicket: Pastoral
● Kamilah Aisha Moon / Dressing Down
● Quentin Huff / Elegy for the Mad Brother @ Borders
● Reginald Flood / Poem for June Jordan
● Shirlette Ammons / apathy no more
● Forrest Hamer / Gentlemen
● Colleen J. McElroy / Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes
● Kevin Simmonds / One for Strom
● Christopher Gilbert / Now
● Nikky Finney and Lucille / Nikky Finney Interviews Lucille Clifton
● Credits
● Contributors
● Heirlooms and Introductions
Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Dirty Rice
● Chanda Feldman / Rabbit
● Christopher Gilbert / Time with Stevie Wonder in It
● M. Nzadi Keita / Night Shift/Day Shift
● Honorée Fanonne Jeffers / Don’t Know What Love Is
● Sean Hill / Joe Chappel’s Foot Log Bottom Blues, 1952
● Frank X Walker / Glutton
● Ebony Golden / back in blues
● Traci Dant / Fish
● Ebony Golden / red onion hoodoo
● Sharan Strange / Night Work
● Yvonne Jackson / Doing Hair
● Remica L. Bingham / Simmie Knox Paints Bill Clinton for the White House
● Vida Henderson / The Boucherie
● Taiyon Coleman / Catfish
● Cornelius Eady / Miss Look’s Dream (Miss Look)
● Lenard D. Moore / The Migrants
● Yusef Komunyakaa / The Whistle
● Robin Caudell / Red Blessings
● Natasha Trethewey / At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950
● Yolanda Wisher / Pea Song
● Carrie Allen McCray / Intermittent Requiems for Bud
● Kevin Simmonds / Witness
● Kalamu ya Salaam / The Spice of Life
● Evie Shockley / The Quilter
● Nathaniel Mackey / Sound and Semblance
● Suzanne Jackson / Cookout
● Cherene Sherrard / Watermelon Repast
● Joanne Gabbin / Pot Meals
● Jaki Shelton Green / i know the grandmother one had hands
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Smoke
● Forrest Hamer / Middle Ear
Swimming, Childhood, and Other Thunders: Don’t Get Your Hot Hair Wet or Your Good Shoes Dirty
● Sharan Strange / How to Teach Them
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Immolatus
● Nikki Giovanni / Nikki-Rosa
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Lessons in Trailer Living
● Stephanie Pruitt / Hair Raising
● Reuben Jackson / 1957
● Sam Ragland / Manhood
● Lauri Conner / what she will remember
● Indigo Moor / Splinter of the Path
● Chanda Feldman / Fusion
● Mitchell L.H. Douglas / On the first drive-by
● Vida Henderson / Mama Gertie Bell Speaks to Her Granddaughter
● Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson / My Best Day
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Nicknames
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Journeyman
● Cornelius Eady / Buckwheat’s Lament
● Cherryl Floyd-Miller / bull
● Yvonne Jackson / How to Make It
● Reuben Jackson / key west
● Colleen J. McElroy / Eads Bridge Boogie Across the Mississippi
● Shirlette Ammons / History Makes Concessions for White Boys
● Meta DuEwa Jones / Black Hymnal
● Kevin Young / The Dry Spell
● Curtis Crisler / Spectaculations
● LaVon Rice / Ghazal for My Mother
Religion and Nature: The Lord Looks Out for Babies and Fools; The Anvil of Heaven Murmuring
● M. Nzadi Keita / Sunday
● Kevin Young / How to Make Rain
● Rachel Nelson / The Tire Plant Is Struck by Lightning
● Alvin Aubert / Baptism
● Ronald Dorris / St. Philip Blues
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Quarter Moon Rise
● DeLana Dameron / Israelites
● Cherene Sherrard / Picnic
● Sheree Renée Thomas / Lightning bug reflects
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / The Reason I Know the Devil Is Mean
● Alvin Aubert / Nat Turner in the Clearing
● jaye farren / prelude to a new plague
● Jericho Brown / Speaking in Tongues
● Rachel Nelson / My Mother’s Tornado
● Kevin Simmonds / Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me
● Forrest Hamer / Goldsboro Narrative #20
● Earl Braggs / Storm Named Earl
His and Her Story: The Myth and Rumble of Memory under the Hammer of Jeopardy
● Truth Thomas / Harriet Tubman’s Email 2 Master
● Holly Bass / seven crown man
● Kevin Young / Reward
● J.W. Richardson / The Politics of Breathing
● Harryette Mullen / We Are Not Responsible
● Kendra Hamilton / The Good Funeral
● Cornelius Eady / My Heart
● Sean Hill / Hands, 1921
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
● Camille T. Dungy “Dinah in the Box"
● Pamela Plummer / reply to grandma taylor
● Cynthia Parker-Ohene / the kelley women: a story of africans and romas
● Stephanie Pruitt / Mississippi Gardens
● Hermine Pinson / Southland
● Reginald Harris / On The Road
● Jaki Shelton Green / redemption lullaby 2
● Cherryl Floyd-Miller / Clay
● Alvin Aubert / Spring 1937
● Frank X Walker / Nosotros
● Traci Dant / Laughing Strong
● jaye farren / between witches
● Sharan Strange / Claim
● Duriel E. Harris / specimen
● Niki Herd / In the Company of Women
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Fountain
● Jacqueline Jones LaMon / Chaperone on the Chicago Charter
● Robin Caudell / West of Dawn
● Nagueyalti Warren / Frederick Douglass to Three Young Men, Waiting
● Parneshia Jones / Resurrection under the Moon
● Kamilah Aisha Moon / Five
● Houston Baker Jr. / Another Man
● Yusef Komunyakaa / You Made Me
Love, Flesh, and Family: The Hush and Holler Portraits
● Sean Hill / Elegy For an Older Brother, 1922
● Jericho Brown / Like Father
● Gloria Burgess / Sanctuary
● Colleen J. McElroy / Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
● Kendra Hamilton / Porch Monkey
● Truth Thomas / Mississippi Fretless
● Houston Baker Jr. / In the Break
● Zetta Elliott / dancing with anger
● Christopher Gilbert / She
● Holly Bass / A Good Showing
● Mendi Obadike / Tradition/Abstraction
● Sheree Renée Thomas / sky in west memphis
● Lita Hooper / Photo of My Mother
● Jane Alberdeston Coralín / Good Times
● Chanda Feldman / My Father Stands at the Mississippi River Bridge
● Askhari / Someplace below the Mason Dixion
● Cherene Sherrard / Girls Named Peaches
● Yolanda Wisher / Ms. Gladys Debro
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / cleaning graves in calvert
● Cynthia Parker-Ohene / Prevalence of Ritual
● Opal Moore / leaving mississippi
● Linda Susan Jackson / A History of Beauty
● Traci Dant / A Twice Named Family
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / Juke Joint Josephine
● Niki Herd / girl meets girl
● jaye farren / martha will go looking for jesse again
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Dinah
The Echo and Din of Place: Turn in by the Silver Queen and Double Twisted Pine
● Randall Horton / The Definition of Place, 1963
● Natasha Tretheway / Collection Day
● Mendi Obadike / A Far Cry
● Forrest Hamer / Letter from Cuba
● Camille T. Dungy / Farm Bureau Advisor
● Kevin Young / Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
● Zetta Elliott / what if we’d had a bullet
● Kevin Simmonds / Charleston Inferno
● Askhari / Haiku 12005
● Lauri Conner / Crum Road, Lyons, Mississippi
● Gwen Triay Samuels / Ode to the Triays of Amelia
● Mitchell L.H. Douglas / Huddle House
● Brandon D. Johnson / At Junie’s
● Paula White Jackson / Scintillating stars
● Paula White Jackson / April’s black canvas
● Carrie Allen McCray / Harlem Cats
● Lenard D. Moore / Barking
● Patricia Johnson / in a place where
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Garden
● Remica L. Bingham / O’Connor’s South
● Duriel E. Harris / bliss: geophagy
● Amanda Johnston / Bowing in the Church of Beauty
● Matilda Cox / Awake
● Teri Elam-Blanchard / in my neighborhood just north of atlanta
● Sean Hill / Milledgeville Haibun
● Naomi Long Madgett / Fifth Street Exit, Richmond
● Reginald Harris / Summer Night, McNasby’s Pier, 1968
● E. Ethelbert Miller / duke
● Earl Braggs / Of Course the Brochure Doesn’t Mention Mrs. Abbott
● Nikki Giovanni / Knoxville, Tennessee
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Between Angels & Monsters
● Sonia Sanchez / On Passing thru Morgantown
● Christian Campbell / Song of the South
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Our Natures Rise
● Cornelius Eady / Home (Running Man)
● Al Young / Landscape Mode
● Chanda Feldman / True Autumn
● Reuben Jackson / Driving South
● Truth Thomas / I love It When You Call Me Big Country
The Twenty-First-Century Southern Riff and Shout: Modern Lullabies for Planet Octavia
● Harryette Mullen / Ectopia
● Meta DuEwa Jones / Graphs: Photos from a Traveler
● Cherene Sherrard / Residual
● Sonia Sanchez / I Have Walked a Long Time
● jaye farren / saturday & a glimpse of sunday
● Askhari / Haiku 142005
● Treasure Williams / community day
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Afronauts
● Frank X Walker / We Real Crunk
● Jarvis Q. DeBerry / Diovan HCT 160MG
● David Mills / Three the Hard Way
● Dante Micheaux / Lawn Jockey
● Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon / Poem For Amadou Diallo
● Douglas Kearney / Bid Thicket: Pastoral
● Kamilah Aisha Moon / Dressing Down
● Quentin Huff / Elegy for the Mad Brother @ Borders
● Reginald Flood / Poem for June Jordan
● Shirlette Ammons / apathy no more
● Forrest Hamer / Gentlemen
● Colleen J. McElroy / Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes
● Kevin Simmonds / One for Strom
● Christopher Gilbert / Now
● Nikky Finney and Lucille / Nikky Finney Interviews Lucille Clifton
● Credits
● Contributors
Reviews and notices of anthology
• Phllips, Rowan R. "Chicago Review" 54.4 (2009): 120-33.
Item Number
A0410