Bibliography

Bibliography

Primary Readings

Ai. Vice: New and Selected Poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Alexander, Elizabeth. Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems, 1990-2010. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2010.

---. The Venus Hottentot. St. Paul: Greywolf Press, 2004.

Alexander, Will. Exobiology as Goddess, Santa Clara, CA: Manifest Press, 2004.

Anglesey, Zoë, ed. Listen Up!: Spoken Word Poetry. New York: One World, 1999.

Baraka, Amiri. The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader. Ed. William J. Harris. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.

Brown, Jericho. Please. Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008.

Clifton, Lucille. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Ed. Kevin Young. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions 2012.

Coleman, Wanda. Mercurochrome: New Poems. Santa Rosa, Ca: Black Sparrow Press, 2001.

Cortez, Jayne. On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2009.

Davis, Frank Marshall. Black Moods: Collected Poems. Ed. J. Edgar Tidwell. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.

Dawes, Kwame. Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems. Seattle, WA: Copper Canyon Press, January 2013.

Dove, Rita. Selected Poems. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

---. Thomas and Beulah: Poems. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1987.

Eady, Cornelius. Brutal Imagination. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001.

Ellis, Thomas Sayers. The Maverick Room: Poems. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2004.

Bibliography

Finney, Nikky. Head Off & Split. Evanston, IL: Triquarterly/Northwestern UP, 2011.

Gilbert, Christopher. Across the Mutual Landscape. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,1984.

Girmay, Aracelis. Kingdom Animalia Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2011.

Giovanni, Nikki. The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007.

Giscombe, C.S. Into and Out of Dislocation. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing, 2001.

Harper, Michael. Dear John, Dear Coltrane. Urbana: U of Illinois P. 1985 (1970).

--. Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000.

Hayden, Robert. Collected Poems. New York: Liveright, 1997.

Hayes, Terrance. Lighthead. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.

Hutchinson, Ishion. For District Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2010.

Hughes, Langston. Vintage Hughes. New York: Vintage Books, 2004.

Jackson, Major. Hoops. New York: Norton, 2006.

Jahannes, Ja A. WordSongPoets: A Memoir Anthology. Savannah, GA: Turner Mayfield Publishing, 2011.

Jess, Tyehimba. Leadbelly. Seattle: Wave Books, 2005.

Jordan, June. Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Eds. Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles. Port Townsend, Wash: Copper Canyon Press, 2005.

Joseph, Allison. My Father’s Kites. Bowling Green, KY: Steel Toe Books, 2010.

Kaminski, Megan. Desiring Map. Atlanta: Coconut Books, 2012.

Kaufman, Bob. The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978. New York: New Directions, 1981.

Kearney, Douglas. Black Automaton. Albany, NY: Fence Books, 2009.

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Bibliography

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Lorde, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audrew Lorde. New York: Norton, 1997.

Mackey, Nathaniel. Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20. Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press, 1994.

Madhubuti, Haki. Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems: 1966-2009. Chicago: Third World Press, 2009. moore, jessica Care. God is Not an American. Atlanta: Moore Black Press, 2009.

Moore, Lenard. The Open Eye. North Carolina Haiku Society Press, 1985.

Morris, Tracie. TDJ: To Do w/John. Berkeley: Zasterle Press, 2011.

Moss, Thylias. Slave Moth. New York: Persea Books, 2004.

Mullen, Harryette. The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed To Be. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 2012.

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Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2005.

Obadike, Mendi and Keith Mendi. Crosstalk: American Speech Music. Bridge Records, 2008.

Osbey, Brenda Marie. History and Other Poems. St. Louis, MO: Time Being Books, 2012.

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Roberson, Ed. Atmosphere Conditions. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon P, 2000.

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Troupe, Quincy. Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 2002.

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Young, Kevin. The Grey Album. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2012.

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Anthologies

Dungy, Camille, ed. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2009.

Feinstein, Sascha and Yusef Komunyakaa, eds. The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.

---. The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996.

Finney, Nikky, ed. Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2007.

Grand Slam! Best of the National Poetry Slam Vol. 1. Mouth Almighty Records, 1996. Bibliography

Medina, Tony and Louis Reyes Rivera, eds. Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.

---, Samiya A. Bashir, and Quraysh Ali Lansansa, eds. Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Art & Literature: Chicago: Third World Press, 2002.

Nielsen, Aldon and and Lauri Ramey, eds. Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006.

Powell, Kevin and Ras Baraka, eds. In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers. New York: Harlem River Press, 1992.

Thomas, Sheree, ed. Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. New York: Warner Books, 2005.

Tumi, Keith, ed. Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Oxford, OH: Miami University Press, 2005.

Young, Kevin, ed. Blues Poems. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Secondary Readings

Anderson, T. J. Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovations in Jazz Poetry. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas p, 2004.

Ashe, Bertram D. “Theorizing the Post-Soul Aesthetic: An Introduction.”African American Review 41.4 (2007): 609-623.

Baker, Houston A. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

Baraka, Amiri. “A Post-Racial Anthology?” Review of Angels of Ascent: A Norton Contemporary African American Poetry , edited by Charles Rowell. Poetry Magazine, May 2013.

Bolden, Tony. Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004.

---. The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives in Black Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Boyd, Melba Joyce. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Bradley, Adam. Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. New York: BasicCivitas, 2009.

Bibliography

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1999.

Cataliotti, Robert H. Liner notes. Every Tone a Testimony. New York: Smithsonian Folkways, 2001.

Cobb, William Jelani. To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. New York: New York UP, 2007.

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Denning, Michael. Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verson, 1997.

Edwards, Brent Hayes. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

Eleveld, Mark. Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop and Poetry of a New Generation. Source Books, 2005.

Ernest, John. Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2009.

Gabbin, Joanne V., ed. Furious Flower II: African American Poetry for the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2004.

---, ed. The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999.

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Glazier, Loss Pequeño. Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2002.

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Media Resources (A full bibliography of media resources will be available on our website)

Coal Black Voices (Jean Donahue and Fred Johnson, Producer Directors)

Cortez, Jayne. Taking the Blues Back Home. Verve Records, 1996.

Furious Flower Video Anthology (3 vols)

BaddDD Sonia Sanchez. Attie and Goldward Productions, 2014.

Johnson, Linton Kwesi Making History. Island Records 1984.

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers. Audio CD. Rhino / Wea, 2000.

Poetry in America: Project Summary. Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/initiative_pa_summary.html

Sundiata, Sekou. Long Story Short. Righteous Babe Records, 2000. http://www.poetry.rapgenius.com/