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Kevin Young: The black psychic hotline, or the future of African American writing
Elizabeth Alexander: What I'm telling you ; Nineteen ; Frank Willis ; Stella by starlight ; Deadwood Dick ; Overture: Watermelon City ; Race ; Blues ; Feminist poem number one
Hilton Als : from The women
Anthony Butts: A Poe story ; Becoming the ghost ; Self-portrait with Clark Street Cadillac
Detroit, one a.m. ; Machines ; The loudest sound
Edwidge Danticat: The book of the dead
Thomas Sayers Ellis: View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School ; Fatal April ; Being there ; Hush yo mouf ; Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ; Atomic bride
Carolyn Ferrell: Can you say my name?
Ruth Forman: Haiku I ; The Williams side of the family ; Blue poem III ; Show me the ankles of justice ; Cancer ; Momma died when my wisdom teeth come in
Even If I was Cleopatra Jones
Terrance Hayes: Shafro ; I want to be fat ; Neckbones ; Candied yams ; What I am ; Goliath poem ; When the neighbors fight ; Some luminous distress ; Summer
Allison Joseph: Salt ; Learning the blues ; Family life ; Home girl talks girlhood ; On being told I don't speak like a Black person
John Keene: Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949 ; Cecil's consolation (1942) ; One revolution ; Winter elegy ; Why I love my father.
Randall Kenan: Now why come that is?
Harryette Mullen: She landed on the moon ; Roadmap ; from Muse & Drudge ; Susuki method ; Black Nikes
Kevin Powell: Letter to my father
Claudia Rankine: American light ; Him ; Overview is a place ; The quotidian ; This life
Darieck Scott: 1979
Danzy Senna: The land of Beulah
Reginald Shepherd: The difficult music ; Desire and the slave trade ; Antibody ; S'il meurt ; Icarus on Fire Island ; At the grave of Hart Crane ; Skin trade
Natasha Tarpley: from Girl in the mirror
Natasha Trethewey: At the station ; Speculation, 1939 ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Flounder ; Saturday matinee ; Bellocq's Ophelia
Rebecca Walker: Higher yellow
Anthony Walton: from Mississippi
Philippe Wamba: Of prophets and madmen
Colson Whitehead: The all-night bodega of souls
Daniel Jerome Wideman: Singing sankofa
Joe Wood: The yellow Negro
Kevin Young: Nineteen seventy-five ; No offense ; Negative ; Charlie Chan on horn ; Langston Hughes ; Homage to Phillis Wheatley.
Elizabeth Alexander: What I'm telling you ; Nineteen ; Frank Willis ; Stella by starlight ; Deadwood Dick ; Overture: Watermelon City ; Race ; Blues ; Feminist poem number one
Hilton Als : from The women
Anthony Butts: A Poe story ; Becoming the ghost ; Self-portrait with Clark Street Cadillac
Detroit, one a.m. ; Machines ; The loudest sound
Edwidge Danticat: The book of the dead
Thomas Sayers Ellis: View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School ; Fatal April ; Being there ; Hush yo mouf ; Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ; Atomic bride
Carolyn Ferrell: Can you say my name?
Ruth Forman: Haiku I ; The Williams side of the family ; Blue poem III ; Show me the ankles of justice ; Cancer ; Momma died when my wisdom teeth come in
Even If I was Cleopatra Jones
Terrance Hayes: Shafro ; I want to be fat ; Neckbones ; Candied yams ; What I am ; Goliath poem ; When the neighbors fight ; Some luminous distress ; Summer
Allison Joseph: Salt ; Learning the blues ; Family life ; Home girl talks girlhood ; On being told I don't speak like a Black person
John Keene: Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949 ; Cecil's consolation (1942) ; One revolution ; Winter elegy ; Why I love my father.
Randall Kenan: Now why come that is?
Harryette Mullen: She landed on the moon ; Roadmap ; from Muse & Drudge ; Susuki method ; Black Nikes
Kevin Powell: Letter to my father
Claudia Rankine: American light ; Him ; Overview is a place ; The quotidian ; This life
Darieck Scott: 1979
Danzy Senna: The land of Beulah
Reginald Shepherd: The difficult music ; Desire and the slave trade ; Antibody ; S'il meurt ; Icarus on Fire Island ; At the grave of Hart Crane ; Skin trade
Natasha Tarpley: from Girl in the mirror
Natasha Trethewey: At the station ; Speculation, 1939 ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Flounder ; Saturday matinee ; Bellocq's Ophelia
Rebecca Walker: Higher yellow
Anthony Walton: from Mississippi
Philippe Wamba: Of prophets and madmen
Colson Whitehead: The all-night bodega of souls
Daniel Jerome Wideman: Singing sankofa
Joe Wood: The yellow Negro
Kevin Young: Nineteen seventy-five ; No offense ; Negative ; Charlie Chan on horn ; Langston Hughes ; Homage to Phillis Wheatley.