12 Books Published by Broadside Press on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Includes the following Poems:

1. "Doors Of Perception" by Allen Adkins
2. "No. 125: Incident At The Tea Party" by Rico Africa
3. "Dream Number 1" by Ronald (ron) L. Allen
4. "Who Am I" by Ronald (ron) L. Allen
5. "Guns Really Don’t Kill People" by Alvin Bernard Aubert
6. "New Year Resolution, 1990" by Alvin Bernard Aubert
7. "Making Hate" by Irv Barat
8. "The Deep Hat Boys" by Faruq Z. Bey
9. "In My Addiction I Study Foucault: 2" by Sadiq Bey
10. "In Tampere" by Sadiq Bey
11. "The Vesper Of Vietnam" by Melba Joyce Boyd
12. "Hamp And Marie" by Carolyn Burke
13. "Beats" by Mary Ann Cameron
14. "Indian Summer" by Mary Ann Cameron
15. "The Crystal Globe I" by Hernan Castellano-Giron
16. "Consolation" by Clear Land
17. "Reminder On The Wind, Sels." by Stella Crews
18. "Name Poem I" by Saundra Douglas
19. "Scenario In A Check Out Lane" by Saundra Douglas
20. "For Tina Turner" by Leisia Duskin
21. "Snow Corn" by Leisia Duskin
22. "Standoff" by Larry Gabriel
23. "Driving Through The Fog" by Jose L. Garza
24. "Desire And Free Trade" by Charles Gervin
25. "Laid Off" by Michele Gibbs
26. "Religious Instruction: Book Of Revelations" by Michele Gibbs
27. "5" by David Glicker
28. "Peace For Ali Muhammad" by Kaleema Hasan
29. "Snowfire" by Errol Henderson
30. "Love Poem #2" by Lolita Hernandez
31. "If You Don’t Want My Love Poem" by Mildred Hunt
32. "My Name" by Mildred Hunt
33. "Untitled I" by Kim Hunter
34. "Untitled II" by Kim Hunter
35. "Hunger, Sels." by Geoffrey Jacques
36. "Revolution Is Realism" by Nubia Kai
37. "South Africa Lives Here (for Winnie Mandela)" by Nubia Kai
38. "Penman’s Song" by Angeline Kaimala
39. "Zelime" by Sybil Kein
40. "Calling All Brothers" by Aneb Kgositsile
41. "Collard Green Fields Forever" by Aneb Kgositsile
42. "Lycia" by David Lee
43. "Passatempo" by Paul Lichter
44. "Open The Sky For Air (for Faruq Z. Bey)" by M. L. Liebler
45. "Images" by Naomi Long (Witherspoon) Madgett
46. "The Artist" by John Mason
47. "On Going To Kill Deer And Finding Them Uncooperative" by Rick McKenzie
48. "The Mouth Of The River Of Eyes The Delta" by Jahra M. McKinney
49. "Black Socrates" by Ray McKinney
50. "In Detroit Meadows" by Ray McKinney
51. "Satchmo: Man About To Die" by Ray McKinney
52. "Jump" by Wardell, Jr. Montgomery
53. "Azania" by Michael Nance
54. "Hope" by Michael Nance
55. "The Musician" by Michael Nance
56. "Memories Of Mei (for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge)" by Schaarazetta Natalege
57. "Sankai Juku: Butoh Dancers Of The Soul" by Schaarazetta Natalege
58. "For John Coltrane" by Kofi Natambu
59. "Late Summer 1988 (brooklyn)" by Kofi Natambu
60. "Words & Music In America" by Kofi Natambu
61. "Untitled" by Kim Nolte-Avalon
62. "Snoring" by Lawrence Pike
63. "Summer" by Lawrence Pike
64. "This Singular Voice: 1" by Ibn Pori Pitts
65. "This Singular Voice: 2" by Ibn Pori Pitts
66. "This Singular Voice: 3" by Ibn Pori Pitts
67. "Untitled" by Leslie Reese
68. "A Remembered Candle" by Rod Reinhart
69. "The River" by Rod Reinhart
70. "Winterblood" by Rod Reinhart
71. "Enticement" by Philip R. Royster
72. "#56" by Rob Rudnick
73. "Chicano Warriors" by Trinidad, Jr. Sanchez
74. "Why Do Men Wear Earrings On One Ear?" by Trinidad, Jr. Sanchez
75. "Passion Fruit" by Steven Schreiner
76. "Private Fire" by Steven Schreiner
77. "’Hackensack’ (for Mary Lou Williams)" by John Sinclair
78. "Chewing Gum" by Sharon Smith-Knight
79. "Wine Sip" by Sharon Smith-Knight
80. "For Wild Women" by Marie Stephens
81. "Tiananmen Square" by Marie Stephens
82. "Cafe Au Lait" by Keith Sterling
83. "Nocturnal Emissions" by Keith Sterling
84. "After Mechanic Tuned The Engine, It Ran Out Of Key" by Teresa Tan
85. "Untitled I" by Teresa Tan
86. "Untitled II" by Teresa Tan
87. "Queen Of The Molar Derby" by Dennis Teichman
88. "Rigor Of Mortise" by Dennis Teichman
89. "The Day We Threw Out The Xmas Tree" by Chris Tysh
90. "Trash & Shout" by Chris Tysh
91. "Rutha Jean: White Friend Of My Childhood" by Hilda Vest
92. "On A Hunger Strike Not Telling Anyone About It" by Mick Vranich
93. "Do You Know What It Means To Miss Detroit?" by Rayfield (ray) Waller
94. "Mike And Robin Must Love Each Other" by Rayfield (ray) Waller
95. "Die Cut Not %like Bleeding Paper" by Roberto Warren
96. "The Plagues (for South African Boutique Women)" by Roberto Warren
97. "A Black Man Who Wants To Be A White Woman" by Tyrone Williams
98. "A Good Left Jab (for Kim Hunter)" by Tyrone Williams
99. "Wild Kingdom (for Milan Kundera)" by Tyrone Williams
100. "Tenor Tears" by Willie Williams
101. "Untitled" by Rudy Woods

Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman and August Wilson, Jamaica Kincaid and Gloria Naylor, Stanley Crouch and Cornel West, and hundreds more.

Moreover, the Companion includes entries on 150 major works of African American literature (including synopses of novels), from Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright’s Native Son, to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun; on literary characters, ranging from Bigger Thomas, to Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace; on character types, such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster; and on such icons of black culture as Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman.

Here, too, are general articles on the traditional literary genres, such as poetry, fiction, and drama; on genres of special import in African American letters, such as autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; and on a wide spectrum of related topics, including The Black Arts Movement, journalism, the black periodical press, major libraries and research centers, religion, literary societies, women’s clubs, and various publishing enterprises. (from: The Oxford Companion to African American Literature)

Featuring an introduction from Gwendolyn Brooks and poetry and prose by Carolyn Rodgers, Don L. Lee, (Haki Madhubuti"), James Cunningham, Johari Amini, Mike Cook, Walter Bradford, and other writers associated with the Black Arts movement.

In an introspective and personal collection of poems, the celebrated poet reflects upon varied facets of the African American experience.

A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets

Poems from Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Robert Hayden, Leroi Jones, Claude McKay, Sonia Sanchez, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Don Lee; others

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