Introduction : essays and conversations in African American poetry / Joanne V. Gabbin
Langson Hughes : a poet supreme / Kalamu Ya Salaam
Message to the generations : the mythic hero in Sterling Brown's poetry / Eugenia Collier
Langson Hughes and Melville Tolson : blues people / Mariann Russell
Bardic memory and witness in the poetry of Samuel Allen / Edward A. Scott - Rooted displacement in form : Rita Dove's sonnet cycle Mother love / Therese Steffen
Conversation / Michael S. Harper and Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Conversation / Eugene Redmond and Jabari Asim
Bantu, Nkodi, Ndungu, and Nganga : language, politics, music, and religion in African American Poetry / Joyce A. Joyce
Ballad, the hero, and the ride : a reading of Sterling A. Brown's The last ride of Wild Bill / Mark A. Sanders
Illocutionary dimensions of poetry : Lee's "A poem to complement other poems" / Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Conversation / Amirir Baraka and Askia Touré
t Consciousness, myth and transcendence : symbolic action in three poems on the slave trade / Jon Woodson
Alice Walker : poesy and the earthling psyche / Ikenna Dieke
"Calligraphy of black chant" : resiting African American poetries / Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Conversation / Sherley Anne Williams and Deborah McDowell
African American epic poetry : the long foreshadowing / Raymond R. Patterson
Personal and public : three first-person voices in African American poetry / Eric A. Weil
Conversation / Margaret Alexander Walker and Joanne V. Gabbin
Blooming in the whirlwind : the early poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks / Joanne V. Gabbin
Conversation / Gwendolyn Brooks and B. Denise Hawkins
Song of herself : Lucille Clifton's poems about womanhood / Hilary Holladay
"Flashbacks through the heart" : Yusef Komunyakaa and the poetry of self-assertion / Angela M. Salas
What is this new thing? / Jabari Asim.