Aberjhani, "blackman sitting on a rock": [26] 224

Abood, Salah Mahdi, "Roxbury": [33] 82-83

Ahmad, Anjail Rashida, "namesake": [33] 682

akimbo, nia, "East Texas Blues": [33] 678-679

Akua, "Song of Joy": [27] 127

Albert, Frank J., "African Violet": [15] 72

Alexander, Elizabeth, "Ode": [23] 495

Alexander, Francis W., "Infinity": [19] 113

Alexis, Gail, "All the Way Home," "Athlete," "For Robin H--, Upon Seven Years of Motherhood, at Age 21," "Talking Horse": [17] 152-153

Allen, Jeffery Renard, "Beginnings": [24] 556-557; "stellar places (for robert hayden)," "Hard to Listen (Slight Return)": [37] 640-641

Allen, Kimalida, "Inspired by Two Kings and a Queen": [18] 36

Anderson, T. J., III, "Inventory": [19] 113-114

Aniakor, Chike C., "In Silence I Wait," "The Moon's Departure," "My Love," "My Surrogate," "Not the End," "Nwagboliwe," "Oh Tell Me!", "What Happened?": [13] 96-99

Ashanti, Asa Paschal, "Reading Southern Poetry Review," "Trinity": [14] 171; "Grand Central Station," "Judith-Ester's Song," "Land of the Heart," "The Live Lecturer," "Madison Square Garden," "The Perfect Poem," "Somehow": [16] 72-73; "Dust to Dust," "Mere Anarchy," "Non-Grata," "Note from Haran": [19] 101-102

Asim, Jabari, "Dumas": [22] 158

Askari, Nyewuski, "Blues in Z Sharp," "Evenin Time," "Poem to Brotha James Baldwin," "Spirit Reach Update," "Spirit Reach Update II": [10] 31-33

Atungaye, Monifa, "Lullaby and Sweet Goodnight": [20] 312-313

Aubert, Alvin, "Click/you know who you are," "I Laughs Sometimes," "JuJu for Me & Billie," "Of Intellectuals," "Old Woman, Mother": [12] 38; "All Singing in a Pie," "Baptism," "Nat Turner in the Clearing," "South Louisiana": [23] 441-443; "His Honor Responds": [30] 245-246

Badejo, Diedre L., "Tokunbo: A Divination Poem": [23] 486-489

Baker, Houston A., Jr., "Loss/Angel-Less/Blue": [17] 174

Bangai, Siah Salma, "Maternity": [26] 278

Baraka, Amina, "sometimie woman," "sortin-out": [16] 106

Baraka, Amiri, "Move!": [6] 14; "Sounding": [16] 103-105; "Ancient Music," "Chuck," "Masked Angel Costume": [23] 463-465; "WHOOSH!", "Fashion this, from the Irony Of the world," "SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA," "THE MCVOUTY BIBLE": [37] 191-210

Barnes, S. Brandi, "Blackberries in the China Cabinet," "We Got Stuff": [19] 103

Barrax, Gerald, "Optimum Distance," "Whose Children Are These?": [23] 484-485

Bartók-Baratta, Edward, "Kevin's Body": [36] 575

Beauchamp, Lincoln T., "Brother Henry": [22] 175-176

Beavers, Herm, "A Picture of Bird": [17] 154

Bebelle, Carole F.: see Akua

Belford, November, "Moving," "Spit Mirror": [20] 264-265

Bennett, Deborah A., "Gethsemane," "In the Ruins," "The Remember Yard," "Sweet Water in the Rock," "Under the Joshua Tree": [29] 87-89

Berkley, Faye H., "Wake": [26] 279

Blackwell, Charles Curtis, "Shortly after the Death of Huey Newton": [24] 540-541; "The Big-Get-Tree Confronted": [36] 490-491

Blackwell, Sr., Walter, "A Picture of My Father": [40] 371

Blow, Arvice, "Black Man Crying": [10] 71

Bogus, S. Diane, "Mayree": [14] 175

Bonner, Carrington, "Nicaragua Woman": [18] 27

Booker, Stephen Todd, "The Centrifugal Force of Orez": [17] 171; "Charged Particulars": [29] 478; "Simple Arithmetic": [33] 94-95

Boose, Maryetta Kelsick, "The Teenage Strut": [20] 309

Boyd, Melba Joyce, "Eulogy for Julia C. Collins: Speculations on Her Thoughts in Oswego, New York at Lake Ontario circa January 1865": [40] 647-648

Braggs, Earl S., "The Baseball Boys of 1964," "Our Town Was Any Town, But Motown Was Heaven," "Simon and Naomi": [28] 585-590

Braithwaite, Edward, "IV Chad": [6] 26

Braxton, Charlie R., "The Bird Cage Bunch," "W. W. II (the prelude to holocaust)": [19] 114; "The King Uncrowned": [20] 261; "In Grandma's Eyes," "Juking at Miz Annie's Café": [23] 474-475

Braxton, Joanne M., "Zoning": [28] 597

Bridges, Constance Quarterman, "PLOWING": [36] 321-322

Brizan, David G., "On Freeing a Woman": [8] 174

Brooks, Gwendolyn, "Telephone Conversations": [17] 148

Brown, Christopher, "Rahsaan Roland Kirk": [24] 564

Bryant, Charles E., "Now": [10] 72

Buckner, John, "The Day Is Past": [10] 36

Bush, Joseph Bevans, "A Sad Song": [6] 23-24

Bynum, Edward B., "Poems": [13] 36; "Passages: An African Experience of the Kiaspora": [33] 101-104

Carew, Jan, "Catechism of Hope," "For Dennis Brutus," "Gems & Dust," "The High Road to Harar": [18] 31-33

Carmen, Marilyn: see Eshe, Aisha

Carroll, Kenneth, "New Seasons": [24] 544-546

Carter, Lillie Mae, "The KKK": [6] 13

Carter, Michael C., "Sundown in the Ghetto": [8] 173

Cayle, "Acts/Ax of Love," "Death Says," "The Driven Who Ride Away," "For Etheridge Knight," "The Hand That Forgets": [28] 591-596

cha Jua, Chakula, "Poem for Mildred": [27] 139-141

Champion, Ken, "SOCIAL SCIENTIST," "FIRST DAY BACK": [38] 147-148

Cherry, James E., "Identity," "John the Baptist," Middle Passage," "Runaway Slave," "Migration," "Jazz on a Rainy Day": [34] 514

Church, Teresa L., "Freedom at Sunrise" (Incident in the Lives of Three African American Poets, Written by Themselves)": [38] 281-282, 287-288

Clarke, George Elliott, "For Henry Dumas (1934-1968)," "II.vii": [34] 692-693

Clements, William M., "For Lincoln Perry": [17] 174

Cleveland, Odessa, "Lifeless Heart": [20] 314; "Life": [21] 450

Cobb, Alice S., "To Erroll Garner," "Untitled," "A Vision": [13] 149-150

Coleman, Horace: "Black Power": [6] 132; "Urban Trapshoot": [29] 479

Coleman, Wanda, "Last Grave at Dimbaza," "Somewhere There's an Alley with My Name on It": [13] 34-35; "El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz," "Ethiopian in the Fuel Supplies": [17] 175-176; "On That Stuff That Ain't Nevah Been Long Enuff for No Damn Body": [19] 109; "American Sonnet," "Black Isis," "Bojack Sam Dealin' Man," "Prove It Why Don't You": [23] 555-557; "Ethnographs," "Sex and Politics in Fairyland," "The Tao of Unemployment," "Violences": [26] 221-223; "The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes": [38] 523-524

Coles, Robert, "A New Beginning": [36] 578

Collins, Michael L., "Ambition for Higher Life," "Anita," "Carla," "Encore to Flute Flight," "A Flute Flight," "issues . . . and no answers," "A Sherry," Untitled, "Watermelon Song": [9] 115-117

Cortez, Jayne, "It Goes Deep," "It's Nothing": [6] 6; "For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo and Henry Dumas)": [22] 200-201

Cumbo, Kattie M., "I Too Hear Amerikkka . . . Sing": [6] 18

Cunningham, James, "Fantasy Man," "A Requiem for a Lover of Bigger Thomas": [18] 27

Damali, Nia, "Birth of a Poet," "Real Lovin," "Sassafras U.S.A." [20] 303-305; "Hello Mister . . . ," "Your Song": [21] 245-246

davenport, doris, "teaching composition in california/with my grandfather near death in georgia": [18] 10

Davis, Ronald, "Others' Expectations": [9] 49

Davis, Thadious M., "Asante Sana, Te, Te," "Double Take at Relais de l'Espadon," "Emergence: For Gerry, A Neo-New Yorker," "A Greeting on Tabaski": [13] 100-101; "Cloistered in High School," "New World Griot," "Reunion": [17] 148-149; "For Alice Faye Jackson," "For Flo Hyman, Captain of the Olympic Volleyball Team (1984)," "Nomzamo," "Ramona Johnson Africa, MOVE Survivor": [20] 299-302

Dent, Tom, "The Blue Light," "Mississippi Moorings," "On Dreams and Mexican Songs": [11] 154; "Ten Years after Umbra": [14] 114

Derricotte, Toi, "The Anesthesia Is Taking Effect," "beau monde," "The House Is the Enemy," "The Night She Dreamed She Was Mad," "the sculpture at night": [17] 155

Diara, Schavi, "African Woman," "Most Likely to Succeed," "Struggling and Surviving," "To a Special Friend": [16] 71

Dixon, Melvin G., "Harlem Footage": [14] 176; "Silent Reaper": [18] 10

Dixon, Sam, "(Dreamin on Your Bad Nigguh Feet)": [7] 105

Dodson, Owen, "For Billie Holiday: Finally, Lady, You Were Done from Us," "King Lear and the Fool," "The Star": [18] 5

Donalson, Mel, "a letter to frank willis," "on the line," "words of the king": [18] 9; "my father's son," "second-class ticket": [36] 318-320

Drain, Georgia, "The Bird and the Worm": [2] 6

Drane, Virginia, "Artquake": [6] 58-59

Dumas, Henry, "Our King Is Dead," "Take This River!": [22] 241-246

Dupanga, Shania, "Freedom Dreams": [23] 504

Dyer, Herb, Jr., "And When the Morning Comes," "The Title of This Poem Is": [8] 277, 287; "in god we trust," "Meditations on a Convicted Consciousness": [9] 29

Eaddy, Felton, "Oh! To Daufuskie (dah first key)": [27] 128-129

Early, Gerald, "The Autobiographies of Ex-Colored Men, Part III," "Down South Camp Meeting," "Satyagraha": [23] 471-473

ebed, "sat. 4/19 10:25 p.m.": [10] 108

Emanuel, James A., "Kitchen Girl: A Love Poem," "Topless Bottomless Bar, Manhattan": [12] 78; "For Young Blacks, The Lost Generation," "Stiff Roses Bring Their Simple Wish": [13] 87-88; "Breakaway Haiku: Harlemites Talking About Movies," "Breakaway Haiku: Mysteries," "The Downhill Blues," "The Knockout Blues," "The Poor Man Blues": [26] 274-277; "Bojangles and Jo," "The Haiku King," "Jazzanatomy": [29] 92

Eshe, Aisha, "Harrisburg Hospital, 1980": [14] 175; "He Can Go Home, I Guess We Pulled the Wrong Nigga This Time": [18] 28; "For My Grandmothers,"I Expect a Call Each Day," "A Picture": [23] 468

Evans, Emmery, "My Heart Is Heavy with Songs I Have Not Yet Sung for My People," Untitled: [4] 88-92

Fair, Ronald L., "Excerpts from Voices: The Afro-Americans": [13 ] 93-95; "The Domestic": [14] 173-174; "black writer's prayer," "stockholders' meeting and menu" [16] 76

Farquhar, Dion, "Figure This": [26] 286-287

Felix, Catherine, "Black Woman": [17] 170-171

Ferebee, Gideon, Jr., "Refugee": [20] 311

Fewell, Richard, "12,000 Miles to See a President": [8] 173

Fleming, Ray, "Aretha," "Bakke's Law, or Lateral Movement," "Summertime": [13] 35

Fleming, Robert, "Nutty," "Thirst," "Totem": [29] 475-477

Ford, Pat, "Black Song": [6] 10

Ford, Theresa, "Scene on a Metrobus": [13] 150-151

Forrest, Leon, "Richard Hunt's Jacob's Ladder": [18] 14-15

Fuller, Stephany: see Stephany

Gaither, Renoir, "Token": [31] 73

Garrett, Daniel, "Forms": [23] 476

Garrett, Lorene V., "Broken Friend," "Undying Treachery," "Winter Green": [20] 306-307

Gex, Bill, "Dead Black Men Overboard": [11] 155

Gex Breaux, Quo Vadis, "Aging," "The Long and Short of It": [27] 130
--, "All Tom's Children": [40] 344

Gibson, Ruth, "In the Darkening Playground": [5] 119

Gilbert, Chris, "Marking Time": [14] 124

Gilbert, Christopher, "Soweto, the Present Tense": [30] 249

Gilbert, El, "The Noise of Death": [14] 176

Glover, Hoke S., III, "Work Song": [34] 699

Goldberg, Stuart, " 'Atta My Way, Nigger,' " "Black Beauty": [10] 71-72

Goodman, Diane, "Jewel's Hair," "The Way Jewel Prays": [29] 90-91

gossett, hattie, "in the window/monk": [27] 571-572

Green, Jaki Shelton, "Auction Block," Untitled: [27] 131-132; "that boy from georgia is coming through here": [27] 629-630

Grierson, Patricia, "The Oldest Living Thing": [10] 72

Griffin, Jeffery J., "Getting Strong Now," "In Minutes When": [14] 174

Hambrick, Brenda, "Topaz Lady": [15] 72

hanks, d. Trinidad, "I Been Fractured": [26] 235; "Color Struck," "I Been Fractured": [27] 473-474

Hanley, Aedan, "Ghetto Spring": [23] 501

Hardy, Myronn, "Comets, 1942," "Return to the Labyrinth," "Inferno," "Night of Chappotin," "September 21": [36] 492-495

Harper, Michael S., "Homebound: Homeground:": [6] 15; "Br'er Sterling and the Rocker": [23] 112; "A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98," "Meditation for Inese," "Portrait (Jay Saunders Redding at Sayles Hall): 5 26 97," "An Umbrella of Maple Leaves," "The Writer's Desk": [34] 509-513

Harper, Rachel M., "Bass" "The Myth of Music": [33] 482-483

Harrington, Janice N., "Color," "A Mother's Voice": [33] 674-675

Harris, Duriel E., "Drive," "Brown Sugar," "Recess," "seeing the dead / lucky seven," "Crazy Woman Blues," "Voice of America": [36] 311-317

Harris, Reginald, "MT in Solitary": [34] 698

Harris, William J., "A Guy in a Black SUV," "Mother to Son," "The Famous Colored Writer," "Dunbar": [41] 17-18

Hayes, Terrance, "When the Neighbors Fight": [33] 481

Heard, Karen, "The Crossing," "Saltwater": [19] 127-128

Hemphill, Essex, "The Note": [19] 111

Henderson, David, "Third Eye/World": [14] 111-112

Henson, Reggie, "Rallies," "Young Being": [17] 175; "Passion," "Riding Shotgun," "Solitaire": [26] 236-237

Hernton, Calvin, "Hands": [14] 112

Hill, Robert, "And So Am I!", "Doin Our Thang," "For Black Women," "On a Quiet Night in Georgia": [10] 70-72

Hines, Leo, "Closed Doors," "Love": [7] 104

Holmes, Darryl, "Fire," "Oil Spills," "Out of the Soil": [26] 216-219

Hooks, Gabriele, "Drawing Parallels," "Lighted Path," "On the Page," "Saint Norma," "Temporary Marker": [33] 78-81

Hope, Akua Lezli, "Leaving Is a Little Death": [20] 262-263; "Hairdressers": [26] 225-227

Hord, Fred L., "Belly Dancer," "The Black Axe: Cleaving for Song," "How Could I Not Love You?", "Nuptials": [20] 267-270

Howard, Willie Abraham, Jr., "Black Panther": [26] 234

Hudson, J. Blaine, "The Illusion of Necessity": [24] 547

Hyman, Lateifa Ramona L., "Night Owls," "Stephen": [18] 19-20; "This South: I," "This South: II": [27] 133-134

Iverem, Esther, "Some Places in America Scare You More," "The Time," "Tsunami": [20] 254-256; "Daddy's Friends": [26] 266

Jackman, Vernon L., "Brown Girl in the Ring": [23] 496-497; "Eyes," "Rites": [26] 288-289

Jackson, Angela, "Fannie (of Fannie Lou Hamer)," "The War Chant of the Architect (Toni Cade Bambara)": [19] 100-101

Jackson, Gale P., "New York Beirut Nagasaki": [18] 56; "Spring 1862, Letter to Daughter": [38] 359-360

Jackson, Patti Gayle, Untitled: [15] 30

Jackson, Reuben M., "the murder city blues": [20] 308; "Edward," "haiku": [21] 249-250

Jacobs, Bruce A., "Church Lady," "Friendly Skies," "The Neighborhood": [29] 93-94

Jahannes, Ja A., "God," "Last One in Should Bring the Light," "Totes": [27] 137-138

Jeffers, Honorée F., "Only the Yellow," "The Light Brigade": [31] 64-65

Jeffers, Lance, "If not the semen on the flower's tip": [6] 19

Jeffers, Trellie L., "On the Second Birthday of My Grandson Mikki (June 16, 1991)," "Requiem for a Teacher": [27] 135-136

Jewell, Terri L., "Salvaging Blood, January 1983," "Theurgy": [18] 35; "No News Among Us": [19] 110; "Covenant," "Gasoline on the Roof": [20] 257-260; "She Who Bears the Thorn": [23] 462; "Harriet's Power": [26] 228

Johnson, Joe, "Harlem": [14] 113-114

Johnson, Yvette, "Rush-Hour Traffic in a Lonely Room": [6] 8

Jones, Joy: "Dizzy": [28] 600

Jones, Joyce, "Pome to My Lover": [18] 36

Jones, sylvia: see Baraka, Amina

Jones, Tyrone, "If by Chance": [23] 454

Jones, Willie M., "Aunts": [26] 258-259

Jordan, Norman, "Straight Ahead": [6] 28

Kai, Nubia, "W. E. B. Du Bois": [23] 502-503

Keene, John R., "Eulogy," "Heroic Figures": [29] 481-482

Kein, Sybil, "Bayou Song": [12] 29; "Bayou Ballad": [27] 142-143

Keith, Bill, "Harlequinode," "Rendezvous in Bilad-as-Sudan": [27] 627-628; "The Alchemy of Letters," "olde myth": [29] 95-96

Kelly, Erren Geraud, "Mirrors" [27] 145-146; "500": [33] 96

Kgositsile, W. Keorapetse, "Ivory Masks in Orbit": [6] 7

Kilgore, James C., "Your Silence Is Not Clear": [6] 25; "The Hooves of a Powerful Horse," "I Am Programmed for Heartbreak," "It's Thundering Again": [10] 70; "The Full Price," "Gambian Magic," "Gourmet Day," "No Hiding Place": [14] 124-125; "Another Ecclesiastical Morning," "Like the Drunk," "Page 3," "Time Is More than Money": [17] 172-173

King, Curtis, "Generations," "mr YOU": [11] 72

King, Glenngo Allen, "the age of anti-art," "dancing demonless": [24] 548-549

Knight, Cranston, "South African Miner": [18] 17

Kocher, Ruth Ellen, "Black White Arms": [26] 283; "Last Night in the Garden": [28] 599

Komunyakaa, Yusef, "Blues Hokku," "from Family Tree," "Interregnum": [11] 120; "Passion of Ex-Hell's Angels," "Passion of the String Bass": [12] 79; "After the Heart's Interrogation," "From Across Years," "Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror," "The Violinist Returns from War": [18] 6; "Basilique," "Butterfly-Toed Shoes," "Modern Medea": [26] 213-215

Kraft, Eugene, "Esu's Itch," "When the Rains Come": [26] 284-285

Kvam, Wayne, "The Day Otis Redding's Airplane Crashed in Lake Monona": [7] 33

Labu, Ariono-jovan, "Borrowing Dead": [38] 154-155

Lamkin, Kurt, "Black Wind": [14] 175

Lane, Pinkie Gordon, "Portrait": [6] 5; "Children," "Poems to My Father": [20] 289-293; "Reading Poetry by Henry Dumas While Listening to Cool Jazz": [22] 275; "Lyric: I Am Looking at Music," "Photograph," "Prose Poem: Portrait," "Song for an Eagle": [23] 451-453; "Mississippi River Poems": [27] 147-149

Lauture, Denizé, "The Gift of Creativity," "A Green Star for the Bard," "Necropsying": [20] 251-253

Lee, James R., "A Commemoration: March 7, 2000": [36] 579

LeFlore, Shirley Bradley, "Dumas Is Necessary": [22] 276-280

Lewis, Brad, "The Big Fight": [27] 150-151

Lewis, Melvin E., "Once I Was a Panther": [24] 534-538

Lewis, Reginald S., "Black Wings": [33] 100

Lilley, Gary, "The Lowdown Conjure Woman Blues," "Voyeur": [30] 251-254

Liyong, Taban lo, "circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus": [38} 289-293

Locke, Sharese, "And the Rain Came": [23] 460-461

Love, Monifa Atungaye, "Talking to Wendy at My Mother's Funeral": [27] 477-478

Lubiano, Wahneema, "Acts of Courage," "The Language of Necessity": [26] 229-231

Lyle, Curtis K., "Lemon's Comin on Strong Blues": [6] 22; "Henry Dumas Walking through Subway Skulls": [22] 281-285

Lynch, Charles, "Rest Home of the Good Shepherd": [7] 105; "As Good as News," "Hurt Concert (4-9-76)," "Simfunny of Thee Hold Whorl," "To the Memory of Malcolm": [12] 119-120; "Cables for Your Babel Tour," "Magic Marker Mystifies Manhattan": [21] 247-248

Madison, Tamara: see Tamara

Major, Clarence, "Spoken Arts": [6] 11; "The Black Experience Cannot Be Defined in One Way," "The Black Experience Cannot Be Summed Up in One Word," "Bones," "East Ninth Street: New York": [12] 31-32; "Coming into Existence," "Get Along Cindy," "The Swine Who's Eclipsed Me": [23] 477-479; "I Was Looking for the University," "On Trying to Imagine the Kiwi Pregnant," "On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly," "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage," "View from a Rock at Dusk/New Mexico ": [28] 11-28

Makalani, Minkah, "Names": [30] 250

Malone, Teri L., "The Bootleg": [17] 154

Maloney, Clarence, "A Sister's Skin": [6] 16

Maquèlàni, Orson T., "Lean Black Faces": [16] 75

Mardis, James, "Heritage": [24] 555; "Fear," "For Dexter Gordon": [26] 238-239

Martin, Herbert Woodward, "Atlanta": [19] 110; "XV," "XVI," "XVII": [23] 470; "letter to freedom": [28] 598; "Ten Pieces for Rwanda": [36] 571-574

Martin, Joan, "Notes from Update on Feminist Resources," Untitled, Untitled: [13] 150

Maura, Sister, "A Woman Is Waiting for a Bus": [7] 104

Mautner, Janice, "wrath of a daydream (the funeral of James Baldwin)": [29] 626-627

Mbembe, "The Black Messiah," "The Broken Church Window," "The Eyes of the Ancestors," "GIGO (garbage in, garbage out)," "What I'm Talking About," "Yourself Fulfilling History": [17] 150-151

McClane, Kenneth A., "Family," "Song: A Chant": [15] 29-30; "Paul": [19] 128

McClaurin, Irma, "Old Age Sequence": [21] 252

McCloud, Rebekah, "Heritage": [10] 72

McCray, Maxine, "A Time of Wonder," Untitled, Untitled: [4] 93-95

McElroy, Colleen J., "Codex: Frostbite": [38] 551-552

McFarland, JoAnne, "incident," "where we begin": [30] 247-248; "The Romance of Bark": [34] 689

McKeever, Herman, "WORK--Night Comes": [20] 310

Middleton, Herbola, "Black Prisona's Lova's Call," "Black Woman," "Da Way We Were," Untitled, "The Way We Wus," "Why I Don't Eat Apple Pie No Mo": [10] 34-36, 138

Miller, Adam David, "The Assistant," "The Square Ring": [34] 694-695

Miller, Alan. "Letter to Gregory," "Traveler": [18] 7-8

Miller, E. Ethelbert, "Bringing Back the Draft," "The Last Days of BoWillie," "Sweet Honey in the Rock": [14] 122-123; "New York (for egberto)," "New York (for enid)," "New York (for marie)," "New York (for richard)": [21] 235-236

Miller, James A., "On Honored Streets": [19] 112

Miller, William, "Zora Hurston in the Welfare Hotel," "Prison Cemetery, Angola Farm," "Night Golf": [36] 323-324

Mire, Stephanie Pearl, "The Fight," "Like Then, I Don't Need You Now," "That Good Ol' Unshaded Nigga": [16] 74-75

Mitchell, Margaret L., "Knowing Your Niggers," "When Midday Is": [19] 126

Moor, Tony, "Straight from the Streets": [26] 282

Moore, Barbara Drew, "Eulogy to El Haij Malik": [10] 138; "Gamblin' Man": [11] 155

Moore, Lenard D., "Heat," Untitled, Untitled, Untitled, Untitled: [18] 28; "The Way of Feet in the Heat": [19] 111; "Dinin' Out at the Midway Café," "The Way I Think It Should Be": [20] 266; "For Dudley Randall," "On Hearing Gerald W. Barrax," "Poor Old Mr. Toothpick," "Raleigh Jazz Festival, 1986," "A Summer Stroll": [21] 241-244; "James Brown": [24] 558-559; "Heavenbird": [26] 267; "Land Changes": [27] 152; "Cornelius Eady at the Painted Bride Arts Center," "The Letters," "Thunder," "For Afefe": [37] 638-639; "Holy-Oiled Fingers" (Incident in the Lives of Three African American Poets, Written by Themselves)": [38] 281-282, 286

Moore, Opal. "Landscapes: Shakin' ": [19] 113

Morris, Harvey, "Oppression": [10] 71

Mullen, Harryette, "Cold Storage," "No More Arguments, No More Anything," "To a Woman": [13] 149; "European Folktale Variant," "Fancy Cortex": [34] 690-691

Nash, C. L., "Beauty Will Be," "Cry for Me": [18] 34-35

Nazarene, Robert, "As the United States House of Representatives Prepares for an Historic Impeachment Vote," "The Billyclub": [34] 700
--, "We Are The Land, Where Everyman": [38] 156

Nelson, Oscar, "Passin On": [10] 137

Nelson, Sandra, "Fire," "The Mate," "Message to the Country Poets": [20] 315-316

Newton, Jerry, ". . . And Someone Said," "Nonexistence," "Transition": [18] 20

Nixon, Art, "Cakewalking in the Badlands": [12] 139

Norman, Kelly: see Askari, Nyewuski

Nuru, Njeri, "All Afrikans Ain't Afrikan," "Atlanta Poem #1," "Atlanta Poem #2," "Bonding," "Little Deaths Hurt Especially": [18] 15-17

Ogbowei, G. 'Ebiny, "Gani Fawehinmi": [24] 542-543

Oliver, William, "The Rhythms of Blackness": [13] 35-36

Opoku-Agyemang, Kwadwo: "Dancing with Dizzy (or Manteca, by Mr. Birks)": [29] 257-258

Ottley, Wendell W., III, "Reggie": [33] 673

pfister, arthur, "wig-poem": [6] 9

Phillips, Frank Lamont, "Tunnel Rats": [27] 153-154

Pinson, Hermine, "Marvin Gaye's Lament," "What can you do with a fan?": [26] 260-263

Plumpp, Sterling D., "Time": [14] 172; "Behind the Rose," "In Remembrance of Fire": [15] 73-74; "First Annual Chicago Blues Festival, 1984," "Streets": [19] 121-123; "No Chasers": [23] 519-521; "For Dudley": [36] 496

Pollard, Cherise A., "Criminal Family": [37] 644

Powe, Blossom, Untitled: [4] 87

Powell, Gregory, "Fragments of a Dream": [19] 124-125

Randall, Dudley, "Be Kind to Me," "For Kim," "For Vivian," "The Girls in Booths," "Motown Polka," "Old Detroit," "Silly Jim," "To Poets Who Preach in Prose," "Woman of Ghana": [17] 168-170

Redmond, Eugene B., "In the Fleshflame That Is Her Face": [6] 27; "Double Clutch Lover": [21] 447-449; "Poetic Reflections Enroute to, and during, the Funeral and Burial of Henry Dumas, Poet (May 29, 1968)": [22] 333-336

Reimonenq, Alden, "A Pleonastic Ne," "A Tree Died in France": [23] 466-467

Reynolds, Craig A., "Watch What You Make of Me": [21] 251

Rhinehart, Rosalyn G., "Glory's Song," "Jazz Man," "Roots": [18] 17-18

Rice, David L., "I'm Allright," "Inertia": [10] 137; "Outside": [11] 70-71

Roberson, Debra, "All People Talk Loud About Is: Black Out Loud," Untitled: [12] 79

Robinson, Rochelle, "Mardi Gras 1999: A Hiatus in the Festivities," "Just a White God": [34] 696-697

Robinson, Steven Richard, "The Griot": [19] 112

Ross, Linwood M., "James Brown," "Poverty Deluxe": [24] 552-554; "The Lyrics of Despair," "Reunion: August '89": [27] 631-634; "For Malcolm, With Gratitude": [29] 628-629; "Single Mother, Anointing 133rd and Lennox": [33] 92-93

Rowell, Charles H., "Experimental Birth," "Look to the Sun": [11] 155

Royster, Philip M., "Black Mythology," "The Black Scholar," "(for virgo)," "Sarah's Blues," "Song of the People": [18] 33-34; "Love Song from a Plain Brown Rapper": [19] 110

Rudder, Sonja M., "City Block Summer": [23] 490-491

Russell, Valerie, "Sowing Seed": [24] 539

Saloy, Mona Lisa, "Word Works": [27] 155-156

Schmitt, John F., "The Solitary Wood," "Thinkin' It Out": [2] 6-7

Scott, Constance E., "Family," "The Way We Were": [12] 80

Scrivner, Jay, "Suasive Tuesday": [31] 66-67

Seibles, Tim. " 'The Shit Didn Hit Nuttin But Net,' " "The Word 1964-1981": [23] 480-481

Sele, Baraka, "Gerald Cheatom, 1970," "Listen," "Spirit People," "Uprising: A Day in the History of Revolutionary Warfare": [18] 8-9

shango, chaka: see Coleman, Horace

Shockley, Evie, "ballad of bertie county" (Incident in the Lives of Three African American Poets, Written by Themselves)": [38] 281-285

Sieber, Hal, "Red, Black, and Green": [10] 107

Sinclair, John, "Three Poems from thelonious: a book of monk": [29] 269-273

Slaymaker, Bob, "Acid Trip, Age 14," "Fool," "Player": [36] 326

Smith, Gary, "Holly Springs": [14] 177-178; "Fireflies": [21] 240; "Fifth Avenue Uptown: James Baldwin, 1924-1987": [27] 635-638

Smith, Jennifer E., "Preceding Our Arrival": [19] 112; "disrespect," "reactionary deeds": [24] 550-551; "2 a.m.": [26] 264-265; "notetaking," "sisterwords": [33] 84-85

Smith, Milton: see Mbembe

Speller, Judith, "Richard Drafted": [13] 151

Spellman, A. B., "After Vallejo," "DEAR JOHN COLTRANE": [39] 153-154

Stephany, "Revolution 1971": [6] 17; "Fear," "Girl Talk," "The Hustler," "Love Out of Season," "Night Rain," "The Poet," "What Has Been Done": [9] 89-90

Stuckey, Elma, "Reprobate": [17] 171

Sudie, "After the Accident," "At the Beach," "The Dwarf," "Lothlorian," "The Word": [10] 25

Sylvain, Patrick, "Adieu Miles": [26] 280; "Festival of Flies," "Jazz Dreams": [33] 676-677; "Jazz Haiku's Medley": [37] 642-643

Tamara, "death of a secretary," "Holy Ghost," "Xmas Poem": [23] 455-459

Tarpley, Natasha, "Parting the Waters or Sinking," "To Alabama": [26] 270-271

Tartt, Peggy Ann, "Origin": [26] 290; "Angel," "Pietà," "Room": [33] 97-99

Taylor, Alvin Constantine, "Cornelia," "The Tourists": [26] 232-233

Taylor, Stephanie Parrish, "The Albino": [15] 30

Thomas, Lorenzo, "Wheeling": [14] 109; "L'Argent," "The Audie Murphy Game," "Now You Can Worry": [26] 268-269

Thomas, Stanley R., "Entrapment: A Continuing Saga": [21] 451

Thomas, Valorie, "Each Other's Eshu": [37] 646

Thompson, Dorothy Perry, "My Fancy Tea Room": [23] 498-499; "Tour, Creswell, NC, 1989": [26] 220

Thompson, Julius E., "Preserving the Memory": [23] 500

Touré, Askia Muhammad, "Cornrow 3": [14] 109-111; "Scarifications 1 (Afro/Abstract: Blue)": [19] 99; "The Frontier of Rage . . . ," "Nefertari: A Praise Song," "Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth," "Sun/Prince: A Rite (of Passage)": [21] 227-234; "Milestones: September 28, 1991," "Sun Ra's Utopian Chant": [29] 247-248

Towns, Jeanne R., "The Morning After," "The Thief": [20] 271-272

Trethewey, Natasha, "At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950," "Circa 1922," "Gesture of a Woman in Process," "His Hands": [29] 83-86

Troupe, Quincy, "Painting in the Head": [6] 12

Turner, Seneca, "Opus VI": [22] 384-385

Tyler, Valerie R., "Brother": [23] 469

Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae, "Leda: Crescent City, Florida 1952," "Daphne," "Danae," "Tamar's Blues," "Groove": [36] 487-489

Wade, Nathaniel, Untitled: [10] 137

Walker, George: see ebed

Walsh, Joy, "Praised Be Imagination": [19] 111

Ward, Jerry W., Jr., "And Just Because My Friends": [14] 123-124; "Black Boy," "Danger in the Human Zone," "For Rachel," "Lawd Today," "Meditation 83/USA," "The Outsider Inside," "Two for Certain Leaders": [18 ] 18-19

Warren, Nagueyalti, "Winter," "Spring," "Summer": [36] 325

Washington, Linda E., "Radio Free U.S.A.": [5] 35

Watts, Stephanie Powell, "At the Well": [37] 645

Weatherford, Carole Boston, "Day's Work," "Migrant Man," "Shejazz," "This Blood": [21] 237-239; "Yeast Rolls & Water Biscuits": [24] 533; "Sciatica": [27] 475-476; "Bluebird": [33] 86-87

Weaver, Afaa M., "African Jump Ball," "Kingfish," "Michael Holley, Bruthaman Boston Globe Sports Writer, Covers the Celtics–in the '96-'97 season–Loss to Loss," "To Malcolm X on His Second Coming": [33] 73-77; "Slim's Stride": [36] 576-577

Weaver, Anthony P., "Disaster": [7] 85

Weaver, Michael S., "For Milton Obote, President Hopeful of Uganda," "Inner Harbor Visions": [15] 72-73; "Messages: For Ntozake Shange," "The Underground Railroad": [19] 103-104; "In Paris on a Humble," "Neo-African Sculpture": [23]: 492-493; "Providence Journal VII: Ascensions and Disruptions": [26] 257; "Enemies," "The Southpaw": [29] 623-625; "Thelonious," "The Doves," "The Poets": [31] 61-63

Weems, Mary, "Return to Temptation": [33] 484-485

Whitley, James R., "Mourning the Familiar: An Epilogue (for Melvin Dixon)": [37] 637

Whitlow, Carolyn Beard, "BAPTISMAL," "From Sorrow Songs": [38] 149-153

Whitney, J. Stephen, "Cemetery Ride," "Gumbo Dance," "Miles": [26] 272-273

Wilkinson, Claude, "Like Da Blues-Man Do": [19] 127

Williams, Joe, Untitled: [23] 494

Williams, Lana C., "A'she": [31] 68-72

Williams, Lenny, "The Ostrich Lectures": [21] 452

Williams, Otis, "Blues for Henry Dumas," "For Henry Dumas": [22] 405-407

Williams, Regina, "Uncle Henry's Conjugal Visits": [14] 171

Wilson, John R., "Atlanta Whispers": [15] 71

Wise, Eric, "ka knew": [29] 480

Woodson, Rose Maria, "Mandela": [26] 281

Wren, Andrea M., "Homecoming": [27] 157

Wright, Bobbie Wallace, "Elizabeth Catlett: Grace against Gravity," "Francisco Mora: Reflections–Geometry & Color Take the Floor": [33] 680-681

Wright, Jay, "Four from Chapultepec": [6] 20-21

Wright, S., Jr., "I Wait": [10] 103

Xanthos, Grace, "Langston": [36] 580

ya Salaam, Kalamu, "my father is dead. again.": [40] 345-348

Yancy, Keith, "The Legend": [26] 240

Yao, Bro., "Her Face," "For the Woman Wants Nothing": [33] 90-91
--, "speak": [40] 221

Young, Reggie, "Praise in Bluesville (Rev. Red Clay Jones)": [24] 560-563

Zar, Rubin, "Chinese Logic": [8] 174

Zicke, Getachew, "The Locked Mind," "A Proposal to Beneatha": [15] 71

Zu-Bolton, Ahmos, "Alexandria Revisited: What Would Have Become": [33] 88-89; "In Our Love(ing)," "Open Letter": [13] 34