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Contents Introduction oo Music, Food, and Work: Heeding the Lamentation and Roar of Things Made by Hand Kelly Norman Ellis "Dirty Rice" 0 Chanda Feldman "Rabbit" 0 Christopher Gilbert "Time with Stevie Wonder in It" 0 M. Nzadi Keita "Night Shift/Day Shift" 0 Honor?e Fanonne Jeffers "Don't Know What Love Is" 00 Sean Hill "Joe Chappel's Foot Log Bottom Blues, 1959" 00 Frank X Walker "Glutton" 00 Ebony Golden "back in blues" 00 Traci Dant "Fish" 00 Ebony Golden "red onion hoodoo" 00 Sharan Strange "Night Work" 00 Yvonne Jackson "Doing Hair" 00 Remica L. Bingham "Simmie Knox Paints Bill Clinton for the White House" 00 Vida Henderson "The Boucherie" 00 Taiyon Coleman "Catfish" 00 Cornelius Eady "Miss Look's Dream" 00 Lenard D. Moore "The Migrants" 00 Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle" 00 Robin Caudell "Red Blessings" 00 Natasha Trethewey "At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950" 00 Yolanda Wisher "Pea Song" 00 Carrie Allen McCray "Intermittent Requiems for Bud" 00 Kevin Simmonds "Witness" 00 Kalamu ya Salaam "The Spice Of Life" 00 Evie Shockley "The Quilter" 00 Nathaniel Mackey "Sound and Semblance" 00 Suzanne Jackson "Cookout" 00 Cherene Sherrard "Watermelon Repast" 00 Joanne Gabbin "Pot Meals" 00 Jaki Shelton Green "i know the grandmother one had hands" 00 Jane Alberdeston Coral?n "Smoke" 00 Forrest Hamer "Middle Ear" 00 Swimming, Childhood, and Other Thunders: Don't Get Your Hot Hair Wet or Your Good Shoes Dirty Sharan Strange "How to Teach Them" 00 Yusef Komunyakaa "Immolatus" 00 Nikki Giovanni "Nikki-Rosa" 00 Jane Alberdeston Coral?n "Lessons in Trailer Living" 00 Stephanie Pruitt "Hair Raising" 00 Reuben Jackson "1957" 00 Sam Ragland "Manhood" 00 Lauri Conner "what she will remember" 00 Indigo Moor "Splinter of the Path" 00 Chanda Feldman "Fusion" 00 Mitchell L. H. Douglas "On the first drive-by" 00 Vida Henderson "Mama Gertie Bell Speaks to Her Granddaughter" 00 Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson "My Best Day" 00 Thomas Sayers Ellis "Nicknames" 00 Kelly Norman Ellis "Journeyman" 00 Cornelius Eady "Buckwheat's Lament" 00 Cherryl Floyd-Miller "bull" 00 Yvonne Jackson "How to Make It" 00 Reuben Jackson "key west" 00 Colleen J. McElroy "Eads Bridge Boogie Across the Mississippi" 00 Shirlette Ammons "History Makes Concessions for White Boys" 00 Meta DuEwa Jones "Black Hymnal" 00 Kevin Young "The Dry Spell" 00 Curtis Crisler "Spectaculations" 00 LaVon Rice "Ghazal for My Mother" 00 Religion and Nature: The Lord Looks Out for Babies and Fools; The Anvil of Heaven Murmuring M. Nzadi Keita "Sunday" 000 Kevin Young "How to Make Rain" 000 Rachel Nelson "The Tire Plant Is Struck by Lightning" 000 Alvin Aubert "Baptism" 000 Ronald Dorris "St. Philip Blues" 000 Pinkie Gordon Lane "Migration" 000 Kalamu ya Salaam "Quarter Moon Rise" 000 DeLana Dameron "Israelites" 000 Cherene Sherrard "Picnic" 000 Sheree Ren?e Thomas "Lightning bug reflects" 000 Jarvis Q. DeBerry "The Reason I Know the Devil Is Mean" 000 Alvin Aubert "Nat Turner in the Clearing" 000 jaye farren "prelude to a new plague" 000 Jericho Brown "Speaking in Tongues" 000 Rachel Nelson "My Mother's Tornado" 000 Kevin Simmonds "Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me" 000 Forrest Hamer "Goldsboro Narrative #20" 000 Earl Braggs "Storm Named Earl" 000 His and Her Story: The Myth and Rumble of Memory under the Hammer of Jeopardy Truth Thomas "Harriet Tubman's Email 2 Master" 000 Holly Bass "seven crown man" 000 Kevin Young "Reward" 000 J. W. Richardson "The Politics of Breathing" 000 Harryette Mullen "We Are Not Responsible" 000 Kendra Hamilton "The Good Funeral" 000 Cornelius Eady "My Heart" 000 Sean Hill "Hands, 1921" 000 Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956" 000 Camille T. Dungy "Dinah in the Box" 000 Pamela Plummer "reply to grandma taylor" 000 Cynthia Parker-Ohene "the kelley women: a story of africans and romas" 000 Stephanie Pruitt "Mississippi Gardens" 000 Hermine Pinson "Southland" 000 Reginald Harris "On The Road" 000 Jaki Shelton Green "redemption lullaby 2" 000 Cherryl Floyd-Miller "Clay" 000 Alvin Aubert "Spring 1937" 000 Frank X Walker "Nosotros" 000 Traci Dant "Laughing Strong" 000 jaye farren "between witches" 000 Sharan Strange "Claim" 000 Duriel E. Harris "specimen" 000 Niki Herd "In the Company of Women" 000 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Fountain" 000 Jacqueline Jones LaMon "Chaperone on the Chicago Charter" 000 Robin Caudell "West of Dawn" 000 Nagueyalti Warren "Frederick Douglass to Three Young Men, Waiting" 000 Parneshia Jones "Resurrection under the Moon" 000 Kamilah Aisha Moon "Five" 000 Houston Baker, Jr. "Another Man . . ." 000 Yusef Komunyakaa "You Made Me" 000 Love, Flesh, and Family: The Hush and Holler Portraits Sean Hill "Elegy For an Older Brother, 1922" 000 Jericho Brown "Like Father" 000 Gloria Burgess "Sanctuary" 000 Colleen J. McElroy "Some Are Dead and Some Are Living" 000 Kendra Hamilton "Porch Monkey" 000 Truth Thomas "Mississippi Fretless" 000 Houston Baker, Jr. "In the Break" 000 Zetta Elliott "dancing with anger" 000 Christopher Gilbert "She" 000 Holly Bass "A Good Showing" 000 Mendi Obadike "Tradition/Abstraction" 000 Sheree Ren?e Thomas "sky in west memphis" 000 Lita Hooper "Photo of My Mother" 000 Jane Alberdeston Coral?n "Good Times" 000 Chanda Feldman "My Father Stands at the Mississippi River Bridge" 000 Askhari "Someplace below the Mason Dixon" 000 Cherene Sherrard "Girls Named Peaches" 000 Yolanda Wisher "Ms. Gladys Debro" 000 Quraysh Ali Lansana "cleaning graves in calvert" 000 Cynthia Parker-Ohene "Prevalence of Ritual" 000 Opal Moore "leaving mississippi" 000 Linda Susan Jackson "A History of Beauty" 000 Traci Dant "A Twice Named Family" 000 Jarvis Q. DeBerry "Juke Joint Josephine" 000 Niki Herd "girl meets girl" 000 jaye farren "martha will go looking for jesse again" 000 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Dinah" 000 The Echo and Din of Place: Turn in by the Silver Queen and Double Twisted Pine Randall Horton "The Definition of Place, 1963" 000 Natasha Trethewey "Collection Day" 000 Mendi Obadike "A Far Cry" 000 Forrest Hamer "Letter from Cuba" 000 Camille T. Dungy "Farm Bureau Advisor" 000 Kevin Young "Eddie Priest's Barbershop & Notary" 000 Zetta Elliott "what if we'd had a bullet" 000 Kevin Simmonds "Charleston Inferno" 000 Askhari "Haiku 12005" 000 Lauri Conner "Crum Road, Lyons, Mississippi" 000 Gwen Triay Samuels "Ode to the Triays of Amelia" 000 Mitchell L. H. Douglas "Huddle House" 000 Brandon D. Johnson "At Junie's" 000 Paula White Jackson "Scintillating stars" 000 Paula White Jackson "April's black canvas" 000 Carrie Allen McCray "Harlem Cats" 000 Lenard D. Moore "Barking" 000 Patricia Johnson "in a place where" 000 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Garden" 000 Remica L. Bingham "O'Connor's South" 000 Duriel E. Harris "bliss: geophagy" 000 Amanda Johnston "Bowing in the Church of Beauty" 000 Matilda Cox "Awake" 000 Teri Elam-Blanchard "in my neighborhood just north of atlanta" 000 Sean Hill "Milledgeville Haibun" 000 Naomi Long Madgett "Fifth Street Exit, Richmond" 000 Reginald Harris "Summer Night, McNasby's Pier, 1968" 000 E. Ethelbert Miller "duke" 000 Earl Braggs "Of Course the Brochure Doesn't Mention Mrs. Abbott" 000 Nikki Giovanni "Knoxville, Tennessee" 000 Yusef Komunyakaa "Between Angels & Monsters" 000 Sonia Sanchez "On Passing thru Morgantown" 000 Christian Campbell "Song of the South" 000 Kalamu ya Salaam "Our Natures Rise" 000 Cornelius Eady "Home (Running Man)" 000 Al Young "Landscape Mode" 000 Chanda Feldman "True Autumn" 000 Reuben Jackson "Driving South" 000 Truth Thomas "I Love It When You Call Me Big Country" 000 The Twenty-first-Century Southern Riff and Shout: Modern Lullabies for Planet Octavia Harryette Mullen "Ectopia" 000 Meta DuEwa Jones "Graphs: Photos from a Traveler" 000 Cherene Sherrard "Residual" 000 Sonia Sanchez "I Have Walked a Long Time" 000 jaye farren "saturday & a glimpse of sunday" 000 Askhari "Haiku 142005" 000 Treasure Williams "community day" 000 Thomas Sayers Ellis "Afronauts" 000 Frank X Walker "We Real Crunk" 000 Jarvis Q. DeBerry "Diovan hct 160mg" 000 David Mills "Three The Hard Way" 000 Dante Micheaux "Lawn Jockey" 000 Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Poem For Amadou Diallo" 000 Douglas Kearney "Big Thicket: Pastoral" 000 Kamilah Aisha Moon "Dressing Down" 000 Quentin Huff "Elegy for the Mad Brother @ Borders" 000 Reginald Flood "Poem for June Jordan" 000 Shirlette Ammons "apathy no more" 000 Forrest Hamer "Gentleman" 000 Colleen J. McElroy "Eartha Takes the Old Woman Shopping for Red Shoes" 000 Kevin Simmonds "One for Strom" 000 Christopher Gilbert "Now" 000 Interview 000 Contributors 000 Credits 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American poetry -- African American authors.
American poetry -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Poetry.
Southern States -- Poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century.