Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley.

The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What’s next for Black poetic expression?

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Poets Featured:

1. John Bracey (Foreword)
2. Iain Haley Pollock
3. Gregory Pardlo
4. A. Van Jordan
5. Glenis Redmond
6. Fred Joiner
7. Frank X. Walker
8. F. Douglas Brown
9. E. Ethelbert Miller
10. Erica Hunt
11. Duriel E. Harris
12. Douglas Manuel
13. Douglas Kearney
14. Dante Micheaux
15. Jericho Brown
16. Jacqueline Jones LaMon
17. Janice N. Harrington
18. Hayes Davis
19. Clemonce Heard
20. DaMaris B. Hill
21. Cynthia Manick
22. Curtis L. Crisler
23. Cortney Lamar Charleston
24. Cornelius Eady
25. CM Burroughs
26. John Murillo
27. Tara Betts
28. t’ai freedom ford
29. Shayla Lawson
30. Sherese Francis
31. Shauna M. Morgan
32. Samantha Thornhill
33. Safiya Sinclair
34. Safia Elhillo
35. Remica Bingham-Risher
36. Randall Horton
37. Raina J. Le n
38. Phillip B. Williams
39. Donika Kelly
40. Dominique Christina
41. Dexter L. Booth
42. Destiny O. Birdsong
43. Derrick Weston Brown
44. DéLana R. A. Dameron
45. David Mills
46. darlene anita scott
47. Metta S ma
48. Sharan Strange
49. Candice Wiley
50. Bianca Lynne Spriggs
51. Ana-Maurine Lara
52. Amber Flora Thomas
53. Amaud Jamaul Johnson
54. Amanda Johnston
55. Ama Codjoe
56. Alan W. King
57. Abdul Ali
58. Kwame Dawes
59. Yalie Kamara
60. Xandria Phillips
61. Tyehimba Jess
62. Tracy K. Smith
63. Tony Medina
64. Toi Derricotte
65. Tiana Clark
66. Thylias Moss
67. Teri Ellen Cross Davis
68. Taylor Johnson
69. Cedric Tillman
70. Camille T. Dungy
71. Bettina Judd
72. avery r. young
73. Chanda Feldman
74. Joshua B. Bennett
75. JP Howard
76. Julian Randall
77. Justin Phillip Reed
78. Kamilah Aisha Moon
79. Keith S. Wilson
80. Kevin Simmonds
81. Khadijah Queen
82. Korey Williams
83. Krista Franklin
84. L. Lamar Wilson
85. Lauren Russell
86. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
87. Lynne Procope
88. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
89. Major Jackson
90. Marcus Jackson
91. Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
92. Matthew Shenoda
93. Mahtem Shiferraw
94. Mendi Lewis Obadike
95. Meta DuEwa Jones
96. Michael Collins
97. Nabila Lovelace
98. Nandi Comer
99. Natasha Marin
100. Natasha Oladokun
101. Nate Marshall
102. Nagueyalti Warren
103. Nicole Sealey
104. Nkosi Nkululeko
105. Opal Moore
106. Evie Shockley
107. Ladan Osman
108. Rickey Laurentiis
109. Jasmine Richards
110. Terrance Hayes
111. francine j. harris
112. Patricia Spears Jones
113. Patricia Smith
114. Ruth Ellen Kocher
115. Ross Gay
116. Arisa White
117. Saretta Morgan
118. Indigo Moor
119. Marcus Wicker
120. Danez Smith
121. Aricka Foreman
122. Mary Alice Daniel
123. Clint Smith
124. Darrel Alejandro Holnes
125. Reginald Dwayne Dwayne Betts
126. Mitchel L.H. Douglas
127. Charif Shanahan
128. Anastacia Renée
129. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
130. Valencia Robin