Changing the subject: Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad"
Expanding the subject: Sonia Sanchez's Does your house have lions?
Complicating the subject: Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge as African American blues epic
Protest / Poetry: Anne Spencer's Garden of "Raceless" Verse
Black and green: on the nature of Ed Roberson's poetics
Will Alexander's surrealist nature: toward a diasporic black aesthetics coda: black aesthetics at the turn of the twenty-first century.