A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni
Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie
From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall
Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith
The case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last
/ Sandra Y. Govan
Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton
New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin
Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
The faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley
On my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson
Of history and healing / Janus Adams
The conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy
The mother's board / Opal Moore
My father's passage / Mari Evans
A blessed life / Maryemma Graham
A birth and a death, or Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance
Ambrosia / Nikky Finney
Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris
The first time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King
On gardening, or A love supreme / Joyce Pettis
A very good year / Hermine Pinson
Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway
The death of the mother / Eugenia Collier
A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez
The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte
Afterword: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan
Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore.