Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
About the Furious Flower Poetry Center
Preface
Introduction
"Wholly One: Still (a cento for Furious Flower)"
"Wholly One: Still" Annotated
1. Flowering Furiously: Contemporary Black Poetry and Poetics
2. Food for Bonding, Food for Resistance
3. The Pieces of Me: Empowering Youth through Poetry
4. Individual and Collective Nationalities in poems by Elhillo, Kamara, and Burroughs
5. Storytelling Poetics: Remembering and (Re)Imagining
6. Prompting Questions for Student Engagement - Lesson Plan Activities
7. Food for Bonding & Resistance - Lesson Plan Activities
8. Food for Resistance - Lesson Plan Activities
9. Student Interview Exercise
10. History and Poetry - Educational Seminar
11. Historical Indebtedness of Contemporary Black Poetry - High School Lesson Plan
12. Shedding the Shame, Claiming Your Name - Class Exercises
13. Writing the Body: Mind/Brain Persona Poem - Writing Exercise
14. Writing the Body: Hands - Writing Exercise
15. A Creative Response - Class Exercise
16. Intersectional Identity and Poetic Devices - Classroom Exercise
17. Historical Indebtedness of Contemporary Black Poetry - Undergraduate Lesson Plan
18. Writing the ‘I,’ Identity, and Legacy - Lesson Plan
19. The Poem Breakdown - Close Reading Activity
20. Seeking a Language Older Than Words: Liberation & the Black Poetic Tradition - Seminar Lesson Plan
21. The Bop: Creative Writing Exercise
22. Single Poet Workshop: Context and Conversation - Workshop Lesson Plan
23. Glenis Redmond: Context and Conversation - Workshop Lesson Plan
24. Fresh Ideas for the First Day of Class - Lesson Plan
25. Desire: Violence and Black Bodies - Lesson Plan
26. Intertextual Exchanges and Intergenerational Poetic Conversations: Lesson Plan
27. Poetics of Black Childhood - Lesson Plan
28. The Poetics of Grace - Lesson Plan
29. Restorative Practices: Healing After Incarceration - Community Program
30. Food for Bonding - Activities
31. Anticipating a Discussion on the Ghazal - Presentation Assignment
32. Contemporary Black Poetry and Poetics - Writing Prompts and Assignments
33. Identity Social Location Prompt - Essay Assignment
34. Close Reading - Analytical Response or Larger Essay Assignment
35. Collaborative Digital Mixtape - Group Assignment
36. Discussant Presentations - Assignment
37. Poem Family Tree - Project
38. The Poetic Intersectionality of Identities: ‘Genius’-ing a Poem - Assignment
39. Final Course Reflection - Essay Assignment
40. Teacher’s Guide to Teaching “Revision as Craft Seminar”
41. Prepared Presentations and Lecture Notes
42. A Furious Flower Guide for Community Workshops
43. Furious Flower Poetry Center Resources
Participant Bios
Terminology Index
Poems and Poets Index
Target Audience Index
Acknowledgements
Previous/next navigation
The Furious Flower Syllabus Project: Opening the World of Black Poetry Copyright © 2024 by Anastacia-Reneé; allia abdullah-matta; Ariana Benson; Mary Beth Cancienne; Teri Ellen Cross Davis; Shameka Cunningham; Hayes Davis; Tyree Daye; Angel C. Dye; Brian Hannon; T.J. Hendrix; DaMaris B. Hill; Meta DuEwa Jones; Shauna M. Morgan; Adrienne Danyelle Oliver; Leona Sevick; James Smethurst; Dana A. Williams; L. Lamar Wilson; Carmin Wong; Dave Wooley; and Joanne V. Gabbin (preface) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.