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The 100* best African American poems : (*but I cheated)

Call Number

  • 811.008 O5846 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2010.

Physical Description

228 p. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (70 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Contains poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist.

Notes

Includes index.

Accompanying CD includes performances by Ruby Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and more.

Contents

  • The aunt / Mari Evans
  • For my people / Margaret Walker
  • Leroy / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
  • Ars poetica: Nov.7, 2008 / L. Lamar Wilson
  • Ka'ba / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
  • When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story ; The sermon on the warpland ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Jazz baby is it in you / Antoine Harris
  • "I fade into the night" / Adam Daniel
  • Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown / I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton
  • I am a black woman ; Who can be born black? / Mari Evans
  • Nikki-Rosa ; Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni
  • The dry spell / Kevin Young
  • Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
  • The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
  • Choosing the blues / Angela Jackson
  • My father's love letters / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • The creation / James Weldon Johnson
  • A Negro love song / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Lift every voice and sing ; Go down death / James Weldon Johnson
  • Between ourselves / Audre Lorde
  • The union of two / Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
  • A poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti
  • No images / Waring Cuney
  • Between the world and me / Richard Wright
  • Theme for English B ; Easy boogie ; Dream boogie ; Dream boogie (variation) ; Harlem ; Good morning ; Same in blues ; Island ; / Langston Hughes.
  • The blue Terrance / Terrance Hayes
  • The mother ; A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi.Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till ; A sunset of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Things I carried coming into the world ; Topography / Remica L. Bingham
  • Beneath me ; Autobiography / Jericho Brown
  • Parable of the sower / Pamela Sneed
  • Heritage ; Yet do I marvel ; Incident / Countee Cullen
  • We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Trifle ; The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • Woman with flower / Naomi Long Madgett
  • The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
  • Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat / Larry Neal
  • Cleaning / Camille T. Dungy
  • Boston year / Elizabeth Alexander
  • She wears red / Jackie Warren-Moore
  • Commercial break: road-runner, uneasy / Tim Seibles
  • Before making love / Toi Derricotte
  • Be-bop / Sterling Plumpp
  • Personal letter no. 3 ; Poem at thirty ; A poem for Sterling Brown / Sonia Sanchez
  • Marchers headed for Washington, Baltimore, 1963 / Remica L. Bingham
  • And yeah...this is a love poem / Nikki Giovanni
  • The carousel / Gloria C. Oden
  • Only everything I own / Patricia Smith
  • Lot's daughter dreams of her mother / Opal Moore
  • The girlfriend's train / Nikky Finney
  • Back from the arms of big mama / Afaa Michael Weaver
  • Mama's promise / Marilyn Nelson
  • Bop: a whistling woman / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
  • Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton
  • Train ride / Kwame Dawes
  • Train rides / Nikki Giovanni
  • A great granddaddy speaks / Lamont B. Steptoe
  • Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / Kevin Young
  • View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis
  • Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natash Trethewey
  • Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson
  • From / A. Van Jordan
  • Freedom candy / E. Ethelbert Miller
  • The Supremes / Cornelius Eady
  • Nikki save me / Michele Scott
  • "Nikki, if you were a song ..." / Kwame Alexander
  • Haiku / DJ Renegade
  • Untitled / Nadir Lasana Bomani
  • "I wish I could've seen it ..." / Leodis McCray
  • That and some mo' / DJ Renegade
  • Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina
  • Dancing naked on the floor / Kwame Alexander
  • Harriet Tubman's email 2 master / Truth Thomas
  • A river that flows forever ; The rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur
  • Rochelle / Reuben Jackson
  • All their stanzas look alike / Thomas Sayers Ellis
  • From the center 2 the edge ; The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele
  • Sounthern University, 1962 / Kevin Young
  • Poetry should ride the bus / Ruth Forman
  • Blues for spring / Colleen J. McElroy
  • The bicycle wizard / Sharan Strange
  • Bicycles / Nikki Giovanni
  • A clean slate / Fred D'Aguiar
  • Song through the wall / Akua Lezli Hope
  • A seat saved / Shana Yarborough
  • Sunday greens / Rita Dove
  • The untitled superhero poem / Tonya Maria Matthews
  • Mercy killing
  • Remica L. Bingham
  • If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan
  • Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni.

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