A

Alexander, Elizabeth 27

“Passage” 27

Allen, Samuel 1

“The Apple Trees in Sussex” 1

B

Baraka, Amiri 1

“I Am” 1

Barrax, Gerald 27

“Jeopardy” 27

Bennett, Joshua B. 1

“Preface to a Twenty-Volume Regicide Note” 1

Betts, Reginald Dwayne 1, 23

“Mother” 1

“When I think of Tamir Rice While Driving” 1, 23

Betts, Tara 16

“Another Clearing of the Land: Epitaph for Hadiyah Pendleton” 16

Bingham-Risher, Remica 1, 18, 28

“Fish Fry” 1, 18, 28

Birdsong, Destiny O. 25

“Recovery” 25

Bracey, John H. 1

“Communities and Social Movement in Black Poetry” 1

Brooks, Gwendolyn 4, 26

“The Second Sermon on the Warpland” 26

“We Real Cool” 4

Brown, Derrick Weston 1, 5, 16, 18

“Melinated Merman aka Aquabruh Wants to Holler at You” 16

“The Root” 1, 5, 18

Brown, F. Douglas 5, 12, 26

“Brown to Browne: Douglass to Tubman Remix” 5

“Re-Portrait Your Name, Douglas” 12, 26

Brown, Jericho 5

Burroughs, CM 4

“Our People II” 4

C

Christina, Dominique 5, 20, 29

“Blood in My Eye: The Poetics of Trauma and Memory” 5, 20, 29

Clifton, Lucille 11, 17

“1994” 11, 17

Codjoe, Ama 1, 40

“Garden of the Gods” 40

“Of Being Sick and Tired” 1

Collier, Eugenia 10

Colvin, Claudette 10

See also Dove, Rita

Comer, Nandi 1, 13, 26

“Early Death Syndrome” 1

“Why I Don’t Call on Cops” 13, 26

Cortez, Jayne 26

“There It Is” 26

Crisler, Curtis L. 1

“Boxing Arethas” 1

D

Dameron, DéLana R.A. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 18

“My Resistance is Black” 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 18

“Say, Divine” 1

Dawes, Kwame 38

“Toward a Pan-African Poetics” 38

Date, Tyree 27

“When My Mother Had the World on Her Mind, Crickets in Her Ear” 27

Derricotte, Toi 9

Díaz, Natalie 26

“My Brother at 3 A.M.” 26

“Prayers or Oubliettes” 26

Dove, Rita 10, 18

“Claudette Colvin Goes to Work” 10

“Rosa” 10

“The Enactment” 10

Du Bois, W.E.B. 26

“The Souls of Black Folk” 26

E

Eady, Cornelius 40

“Papa Was a Rolling Stone” 40

Elhillo, Safia 1, 4, 18

“self-portrait with no flag” 1, 4, 18

F

Foreman, Aricka 1, 29

“When the Therapist Asks You to Recount, You Have to Say It” 1, 29

Francis, Sherese 38

“Voyage of Kianda: Art Formerly Known As The Sable Venus Speaks Back” 38

G

Giovanni, Nikki 27

“The Wrong Kitchen” 27

“Nikki-Rosa” 27

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline 1, 20

“90 poems I didn’t write for you” 1, 20

H

Harris, Duriel E. 1, 25

“American Counting Rhyme” 1, 25

harris, francine j. 1

“Versal” 1

Hayden, Robert 1, 40

“Middle Passage” 1

Hill, DaMaris B. 1, 11, 17, 26, 28

“A Reckoning: Assata in 1980” 1, 26

“Miz Lucille” 11, 17, 28

Holnes, Darrel Alejandro 2, 6, 7, 8, 30

“Bread Pudding Grandmamma” 2, 6, 7, 8, 30

Howard, JP 1, 12

“Praise Poem For My Leo Self” 1, 12

J

Johnson, Amaud Jamaul 24

“Hayden” 24

Johnson, Taylor 1, 26

“Aeration” 1, 26

Johnston, Amanda 1

“Gender Reveal” 1

K

Kamara, Yalie 4, 5, 26

“A Haiku Love Letter for Gabby Douglas” 4, 5, 26

Kearney, Douglas 15

“Afrofuturism (Blanche says, ‘Meh,’)” 15

“Poetics as Response to Certain Tropes as Allergens” 15

King, Alan W. 1, 18

“Sure. You can Ask Me about Hip-Hop” 1, 18

Komunyakaa, Yusef 25

“Songs of my Father” 25

L

Laurentiis, Rickey 1, 27

“Conditions for a Southern Gothic” 1, 27

M

Manick, Cynthia 1

“Tapping at Mama’s Knees” 1

Marshall, Nate 1

“which art? which fact?” 1

Medina, Tony 19

Micheaux, Dante 1

“Dew-Drier” 1

Miller, E. Ethelbert 27

“Mississippi” 27

“Baldwin” 27

Moon, Kamilah Aisha 1

“Initiation” 1

Moore, Opal 1, 3, 38

“Eulogy for Sister” 3

“Girl with the golden contacts at the Walmart” 1, 38

Morgan, Shauna 12

“Resume Names” 12

Morrison, Toni 29

“Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” 29

Murillo, John 40

“Mercy, Mercy Me” 40

O

Oladokun, Natasha 1, 18

“Let My Anger Be the Celebration We Were Never Supposed to Have” 1, 18

P

Parks, Rosa 10

See also Dove, Rita

Patterson, Raymond R. 3

“Baobab” 3

Phillips, Xandria 27

“A Fruit We Never Tasted” 27

Procope, Lynne 1

“American Religion” 1

Q

Queen, Khadijah 1

“Activism is hot just ask Jason Momoa” 1

R

Redmond, Glenis 1, 20, 23

“I Wish You Black Sons” 1, 20, 23

Richards, Jasmine 20

“Why I Fight for Black Lives” 20

S

Sanchez, Sonia 19

Sealey, Nicole 1, 24

“Candelabra with Heads” 1

“Cento for the Night I Said, ‘I Love You’” 24

Shiferraw, Mahtem 27

“The Silences” 27

Shockley, Evie 1

“Race, Experiments, and the Black Avant-Garde” 1

Simmonds, Kevin 25

“Upright” 25

Sinclair, Safiya 14

“Hands” 14

Smith, Danez 1, 3, 18

“alternate names for black boys” 3

“For the Dead Homie” 1, 18

T

Thomas, Lorenzo 26

“Dangerous Doubts” 26

Thoreau, Henry David 1

“Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors” 1

Trethewey, Natasha 1, 3

“Bellocq’s Ophelia” 1

“Gesture of a Woman in Process” 3

W

Walker, Frank X 5, 10

“Memory, Research, Imagination, and the Mining of Historical Poetry” 5

Weatherford, Carole B. 25

“The Tan Chanteuse” 25

White, Arisa 1, 27

“Loni, with a martini and sapphire balls” 1, 27

Wiley, Candace G. 1

“Symphony of Soul” 1

Williams, Phillip B. 1

“Discipline” 1

Woodson, Jon 1, 10

“Consciousness, Myth, and Transcendence: Symbolic Action in Three Poems on the Slave Trade” 1

Y

young, avery r. 1, 18

“I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” 1, 18