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©2024
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xiv, 143 pages ; 22 cm
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Intro: Young Afrikans / Gwendolyn Brooks -- V. 1: LIVIN'. Power / Audre Lorde -- The South / Erica Martin -- Colors / Fatima Stephens -- Textures / Kandace Fuller -- 10:32 p.m. / Courtne Comrie -- Views for Damani / Tony Keith Jr. -- Greasy Butt Kids / Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin -- Laughers / Langston Hughes -- Like a Wildfire / Ashley Woodfolk -- Won't You Celebrate with Me / Lucille Clifton -- Douen / Lauren K. Alleyne -- V. 2: GAWD. Genesis / Etheridge Knight -- Exodus / Jamar J. Perry -- Soup-her-stitions / Jenine Jones -- Runaway / Ryan Douglass -- The Lynching / Claude McKay -- A Hymn to the Evening / Phillis Wheatley -- Five in One / Ama Asantewa Diaka -- Other World: A Veneration / Faylita Hicks -- 20/20 / Simone Liggins -- Hottentot Girl Summer / Ibi Zoboi -- V. 3: HAUNTING WATER. Wrath of Scaled Gods / Mahogany L. Browne -- Portrait of a Daughter / Donald Vincent (aka Mr. Hip) -- This is not a Small Voice / Sonia Sanchez -- Loophole of Retreat / Joy Priest -- The Southern Mermaid / Amber McBride -- Untitled / James Baldwin -- The Little Black Boy Fins Some Shade / Tariq Thompson -- Follow the Drinking Gourd / American Folk Song (author unknown) -- Middle Passage: Day One / Kwame Alexander -- New Curriculum on Water / Taylor Byas -- V. 4: Magickal. Mumble the Magic Words / Jabari Asim -- A Fable / Etheridge Knight -- Anansi's Bop / Rodrick Minor -- Enough Room / Taylor Byas -- (un)chained / Erica Martin -- Ink & Thunderstorms / Amber McBride -- Why the Mosquito Buzzes in Your Ear / Danez Smith -- Grandmother Goddess / L. Renée -- Black Mythology / Jonny Teklit -- We Write / Nikki Giovanni
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain
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Martin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica), editor
Alleyne, Lauren K., contributor
Asim, Jabari, 1962- contributor
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, contributor
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, contributor
Browne, Mahogany L., contributor
Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010, contributor
Diaka, Ama Asantewa, contributor
Gabbin, Joanne V., contributor
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, contributor
Knight, Etheridge, 1931-1991, contributor
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, contributor
Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- contributor