Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book Synopsis"A delectable selection of poems by China's greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty. A rare achievement!"--Red Pine "Jade Mirror's particular strength comes from the fact that all of its fine translators bring to the work different senses of where poetry is to be found in the originals as well present some of the finest poetic translation of the last twenty years."--Jerome Seaton This anthology spans twenty-five hundred years of writing by women. These are voices that were most often left out of the official anthologies and represent a hidden tradition that deserves a wider audience.Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. From the Book of Songs (c.600BCE) Biographical note and translations by Michael Farman Midnight Songs (Zi Ye Ge) (4th Century CE) Biographical note by Michael Farman; translations by Jeanne Larsen and Michael Farman 4. Wu Zhao (625-705) and Shangguan Wan'er (c. 664-710) Biographical note and translations by Jeanne Larsen 5. Xue Tao (c.768-831) Biographical note and translations by Jeanne Larsen 6. Yu Xuanji (c.844-c.871) Biographical note by Geoffrey Waters; translations by Geoffrey Waters and Jeanne Larsen 7. Li Qingzhao (1084 – c. 1150) Biographical note and translations by Michael Farman 8. Zhu Shuzhen (Song Dynasty) Biographical note and translations by Emily Goedde 9. Ji Xian (1614-1683) 10. Ye Xiaoluan (1616-1632) 11.Shen Cai (b.1752) 12. Lü Bicheng (1883-1943) Biographical notes and translations by Grace Fong

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Book Synopsis"Wow! What a book! The tradition of women's writing that flows out of the work of Symborska and Anna Swir--the way this mighty tradition turns in the hands of a younger generation from the traumatic history of their country to a poetics of everyday life, of play, and experiment. An absolutely rich and appealing book."--Robert Hass "These cosmopolitan, multilingual poets speak to us across the decades, overcoming a great silence, redirecting the myths, reimagining the role of the poet, and the nature of poetry itself. Scattering the Dark is a useful, subversive, even necessary anthology."--Edward Hirsch Scattering the Dark offers a lively selection of over thirty of Poland's women poets writing before and after the fall of communism. Karen Kovacik is a translator and poet.Table of ContentsContents Introduction / I. Lifting the Veils of History / Wislawa Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Hitler’s First Photograph” / Julia Hartwig, “Victoria” / Julia Hartwig, “Some Women from Warsaw” / Anna Swir, “I Carried Bedpans” / Julia Hartwig, “This Is How It Will Be” / Julia Hartwig, “In Transit” / Bozena Keff, “Lara Croft” / Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, “Fragments of Maps” / Agnieszka Kuciak, “Wroniecka Street Pool” / Ewa Lipska, “Confessions of a Courtesan” / Krystyna Milobedzka, From I Remember (Notes on Martial Law) / Mira Kus, “Poem of the Seven Veils” / Wioletta Grzegorzewska, “Spring, 1986” / Agnieszka Mirahina, “All the Radio Stations of the Soviet Union” / Ewa Lipska, “Freedom” / II. In the Theater of Dreams Joanna Lech, “Cuts” / Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, “Black” / Justyna Bargielska, “In this season, at this time of day” / Wislawa Szymborska, “In Praise of Dreams” / Krystyna Dabrowska, “Travel Agency” / Urszula Koziol, “Under the Cover of Night” / Krystyna Lars, “‘I Dreamed I Collaborated’…” / Joanna Lech, “Postscript” / Marzanna Bogumila Kielar, “Like an oxidized breath . . .” / Marzena Broda, “My Little Son Died” / Joanna Lech, “The Tide Coming In” / Julia Fiedorczuk, “Bio” / Julia Fiedorczuk, “Lands and oceans” / III. Reimagining the Bard Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, “Ballad on the Death of a Poet” / Krystyna Lars, “Soiree at the Czar’s Plenipotentiary” / Krystyna Lars, “The Military Governor Contemplates the Statue of Adam M.” / Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, “A Literary Life” / Anna Piwkowska, “What Do Men Bring?” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem” / Joanna Mueller, “Proofreading” / Justyna Bargielska, “Avantourism” / Marta Podgórnik, “death becomes her” / Krystyna Rodowska, “Old Woman Poet” / Ewa Parma, “Old women poets” / IV. The Ironic Art of Poetry Wislawa Szymborska, “The Joy of Writing” / Julia Hartwig, “The Sentence” / Agnieszka Kuciak, “Meter” / Agnieszka Kuciak, “Hawthorn” / Marzanna Bogumila Kielar, “Manuscript” / Mira Kus, “View from My Window” / Izabela Morska, “Madame Intuita” / Agnieszka Kuciak [Bionda], “Sure, I’ll rent out to others all my dreams” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Stage Fright” / Ewa Lipska, “Questions at a Poetry Reading” / Ewa Lipska, “My Translators” / Urszula Koziol, “To My Poem” / Ewa Sonnenberg, “Prophecy” / Izabela Morska, “Madame Snake” / Marta Podgórnik, “little use” / Urszula Koziol, “Again I Didn’t Write” / V. A Gallery of Myths and Masks Agnieszka Kuciak, “Delay” / Agnieszka Kuciak, “Philomela” / Anna Piwkowska, “Phaedra” / Anna Piwkowska, “Ismene, sister of mine” / Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, “My Name is Iocasta” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Soliloquy for Cassandra” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Lot’s Wife” Justyna Bargielska, “Ophelia” / Ewa Sonnenberg, “Sign of the Times” / Krystyna Rodowska, “Without Revenge” / Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz, “Cinderella of the Cinder-Blocks” / Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz, “Depths” / Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz, “The Hunt” / Izabela Morska, “Madame Intuita, Vampire-Killer, Grants an Interview” / Julia Fiedorczuk, “Madame Midas” / VI. Transitions, Transformations Anna Swir, “I Banged My Head Against the Wall” / Krystyna Lenkowska, “An Overdue Letter to a Pimply Angel” / Anna Piwkowska, “Lying on a Lawn Chair” / Julia Hartwig, “I Will Perform This Miracle for You” / Agnieszka Mirahina, “To my great-great-granddaughter” / Urszula Koziol, “For some time now...” / Krystyna Rodowska, “Mutinous Cemetery” / Krystyna Milobedzka, “strip yourself of Krystyna” / Izabela Morska, “Chrysalis” / Agnieszka Mirahina, “Perversion” / Wislawa Szymborska, “An Unexpected Meeting” / Izabela Morska, “Metamorphoses” / Krystyna Milobedzka, “I ran into myself in Bologna…” / Krystyna Dabrowska, “Where should I look from in order to see you?” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Over Wine” / Anna Piwkowska, “Blue Sweater” / VII. The Domestic Arts Urszula Koziol, “Recipe for the Meat Course” / Justyna Bargielska, “Translation” / Anna Swir, “A Woman Writer Does Laundry” / Julia Hartwig, “Escaping One’s Chores” / Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, “Strange Lady” / Ewa Parma, “A Room of One’s Own” / Ewa Lipska, “Dishwasher” / Ewa Lipska, “Warranty” / Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, “Tenant” / Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo, “The House” / Izabela Morska, “Kitchen and Myths” / Agnieszka Kuciak [Mrs. K], “Parable” / Krystyna Milobedzka, “The house” / VIII. Curating Objects Julia Fiedorczuk, “Drawer” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Map” / Julia Hartwig, “Justly” / Julia Hartwig, “Inventory” / Ewa Sonnenberg, “Love Poem” / Joanna Wajs, “glove” / Ewa Chrusciel, “Ginkgo Leaves” / Ewa Chrusciel, “Incense” / Krystyna Milobedzka, “Brooches once lived in the wild…” / Mira Kus, “From the Land of Childhood” / Joanna Wajs, “under the table” / Joanna Mueller, “Etch a Sketch” / Ewa Lipska, “A Door Handle” / Wislawa Szymborska, “Negative” / Works Cited Works Consulted Notes on the poets Notes on the translators ?

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Book SynopsisThe early experimental work of one of the founders of Russian conceptualism Russian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of artists who have organized participatory actions on the outskirts of Moscow since 1976. Though his poetry is less well known, poetry is where he began. After writing in the manner of the Russian modernists (who were newly available to Soviet readers during Khrushchev's thaw), Monastyrski's interest in John Cage and ideas about consciousness from Western and Eastern philosophical traditions led him to conduct experiments with sound, form and the creation of artistic situations involving constructed objects that required viewer engagement to complete. Elementary Poetry collects poems, books and action objects from the '70s and '80s, tracing a genealogy of the art action in poetry.

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Book SynopsisThree celebrated poets illuminate the complexity of life in Haiti and its diaspora in the 21st century, particularly for women, in this exceptional and unprecedented trilingual collection. In Évelyne Trouillot’s sensual poems about love and yearning, she asks repeatedly “in what language should I speak to you”? Marie-Célie Agnant addresses poverty, pain, death, but also the pleasures of passion. Maggy De Coster’s concise and personal poems explore the world — its nature, light, wind — and, sometimes, political themes. Together, these poems navigate between an impulse to “capture gently these moments of light” (De Coster) and the very different insistence that we see how “pain sits at ground level / at times charging like a beast” (Agnant). The original poems in French and Haitian Kreyòl appear facing the English translations by Danielle LeGros Georges. Agnant is the 2023 Cana

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Book SynopsisLike A New Sun features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages. Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Victor Teran and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six indigenous Mexican poets--three women and three men--each writing in a different language. Well-established names like Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec) appear alongside exciting new voices like Mikeas Sanchez (Zoque). Each poet's work is contextualized and introduced by its translator. Foreword by Eliot Weinberger. Poets include Victor Teran (Isthmus Zapotec), Mikeas Sanchez (Zoque), Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazatec), Briceida Cuevas Cob (Yucatec Maya), Juan Hernandez (Huastecan Nahuatl), and Enriqueta Lunez (Tsotsil).

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Book SynopsisThe Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late 20th century's most influential poets and artists, who have come together in this legendary venue over the past 50 years. Includes interviews with Charles North, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, David Rattray, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Koch, Harryette Mullen, Barbara Henning, David Henderson, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Ed Sanders, Samuel Delany, Harry Matthews, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Renee Gladman, Lorenzo Thomas, Fred Moten, Stan Brakhage, Alex Katz, Lewis Warsh, Ron Padgett, Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, and more. "I find it one of the liveliest points of communication in the American poetry world. There is an incredible excitement to come to the church and read one's poems to the many other poets who congregate there, drawn to the church by its own energy and thrust." --Donald Hall From the introduction, by Anselm Berrigan: For the poets closely involved with the Poetry Project since, and subsequent to, its inception, the interviews were an opportunity to speak directly to a community one could perceive as known, imaginary, expanding, unwieldy, intermittent, formative, desperately necessary, and sometimes peculiarly unsatisfying all at once. Community being the kind of term that often implies everything and nothing simultaneously, with the bottom falling out of the word depending on who happens to be wielding it. Poets can be particularly adept at using and exposing such terms.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Anselm Berrigan The New York Poetry Scene / Short Form- Charles North Talking with Red Grooms: An Interview by Anne Waldman Translation as Puzzle and Performance: An Interview with Paul Schmidt (by Tim Dlugos) The Colors of Consonance: Bernadette Mayer Talks.... Taking Risks Seriously: David Rattray Talks.... Allen Ginsberg & Kenneth Koch: From A Conversation An Interview with Harryette Mullen by Barbara Henning An Interview with David Henderson by Lisa Jarnot An Interview with Alice Notley by Judith Goldman An Interview with John Godfrey by Lisa Jarnot An Interview with Ed Sanders by Lisa Jarnot An Interview with Victor Hernandez Cruz by Sheila Alson An Interview with Bernadette Mayer by Lisa Jarnot An Interview with Kenneth Koch by Daniel Kane A Silent Interview with Samuel R. Delany To Buffalo and Back with Renee Gladman: Interview by Magdalena Zurawski A Conversation with Lorenzo Thomas by Dale Smith An Interview with Fred Moten by Ange Mlinko Lisa Jarnot interviews Stan Brakhage Interview with Charles North by Ange Mlinko “Surprise Each Other”: Anne Waldman on Collaboration by Lisa Birman Interview with Alex Katz by Vincent Katz Adventures in Poetry: An Interview with Larry Fagin Tina Darragh interviewed by Marcella Durand Lewis Warsh interviewed by Peter Bushyeager Jack Collom talks Spandrels, Foxez, and Receding Paths with Marcella Durand Anne Waldman Talks Poetry Infrastructure, Safe “Zones”, and Other Versions of the World with Marcella Durand Edwin Torres Talks Interactive Eclecticism, Banana Peels, and Walking in Your Calling with Marcella Durand Harry Mathews Reveals the Inside Story to Marcella Durand Brenda Coultas Tells the Truth to Marcella Durand Akilah Oliver Talks to Rachel Levitsky Will Alexander: A Profound Investigation, with Marcella Durand Ron Padgett Lifts Off, with Edmund Berrigan Wayne Koestenbaum and Maggie Nelson In Conversation Knowing Isn’t Enough: A Conversation with John Trudell, by Brendan Lorber An Interview with Ted Greenwald by Arlo Quint An Interview with Eileen Myles, by Greg Fuchs 10 Questions for Bruce Andrews and Sally Silvers

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Book SynopsisBetween these covers you will find haunting unconventional narratives that push the boundaries of genre & form in poetry, fiction & essays. This is our first transmission. Welcome to Black Telephone Magazine.

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Book SynopsisA ground breaking anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry containing the diverse work of eight women and eight male poets with a wide range of subject matter and styles full of musicality, rhythm, and colorful images.Table of ContentsJános Áfra Johanna Domokos Gábor G Gyukics Attila Jász Dénes Krusovszky Gábor Lanckor Júlia Lázár Mónika Mesterházy Zita Murányi Zsuka Nagy Márió Nemes Z. Anna Szabó T. Sándor Tatár János Térey Krisztina Tóth Szabina Ughy

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Book SynopsisAn illustrated work of lyric poetry and prose on drinking green tea as a meditation.An Homage to Green Tea is an illustrated collection of poetry and prose on the beneficence of green tea, and ways to experience that beneficence. It collects two works of classical Korean literature into a single volume.“A Poem for Green Tea” is a long poem that includes short-short stories, legends, anecdotes, other related poems, excerpts from reference books about green tea, religious and spiritual (Buddhist/Taoist) writing, and Ch’oŭi’s notes to the poem. Taken as a whole, the poem seeks to authenticate the value of Korean green tea relative to Chinese green tea in a pleasing, aesthetic manner. “A Poem for Green Tea” ends with an epilogue poem in praise of Ch’oŭi’s unparalleled green tea.“The Divine Life of

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Book SynopsisBeowulf & Beyond is the first and only collection of translations into modern English to include not only Beowulf but all of the best-known works of Anglo-Saxon literature in one convenient volume. The texts translated here are taken chiefly from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Exeter Book and the Anglo-Saxon Genesis, as well of course as Beowulf itself. Previously, students have had to buy a separate book to read essential works like "The Seafarer", required reading in all courses of early English literature. And even these may miss some of the greatest delights of this period: the wonderful stories from Bede, the charms, sayings, spells and riddles that inspire students to dig deeper into this strange and magical world. Dan Veach provides a brief introduction to each text, giving just enough background to allow the modern reader with no specialist knowledge to understand the historical context of the work and its author. There is a longer introduction to Beowulf, discussing the poem in some detail; its opening paragraph tells us: “Those returning [to Beowulf] with distant memories from school will be shocked to discover just how fantastic it really is—how chilling the drama, how delicious the scene-setting, how engaging the characters. These translations are, in the words of A.E. Stalling writing in the book’s Preface, the work of a “deeply learned translator who, at the same time, wears his learning so lightly, locating each work with a brief introduction and letting its humanity gleam through.” Dan Veach’s translations, which derive their power from cleaving "close to the bone" of the original Anglo-Saxon, capture the power and punch of the original in a supple verse that sweeps the reader irresistibly onward.Table of ContentsForeword Preface TALES FROM THE VENERABLE BEDE The Story of Caedmon Pope Gregory sees an Angle The Story of the Sparrow From the Venerable Bede, by A. E. Stallings Bede’s Death Song BLOOD & BATTLE Viking Attack on Lindisfarne The Battle of Brunanburg The Battle of Maldon Norman Invasion of 1066 LOVE & LOSS The Seafarer The Wife’s Lament The Husband’s Message The Wanderer BOLD SPIRITS From the Anglo-Saxon Genesis Satan’s Rebellion The Temptation The Sacrifice of Isaac Dream of the Rood Judith MAGIC & MYSTERY Magic Spells To Heal the Land For a Swarm of Bees Charms for Childbirth Maxims Riddles #25. “I’m a wonderful creature” #27. “I’m treasured by men, found far and wide” #44. “It hangs in splendor by a man’s thigh” #5. “I’m a lonely wretch, wounded by iron” #61. “Sometimes a lady locks me” #46. “A man sat at wine with two wives” #45. “I hear tell of something” #47. “A moth munching on words” #54. “The young man came” Answers to Riddles BEOWULF Episodes Introduction Beowulf I. Grendel II. Grendel’s Mother III. The Dragon The Finnsburg Fragment Selected Readings and Media

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Book Synopsis"An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely" —from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate The Carolina African American Writers’ Collective celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with All the Songs We Sing, an anthology of works by members of the Collective, edited by its founder, Lenard D. Moore. North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green introduces the anthology, which includes works by Lenard D. Moore, Bridgette A. Lacy, Crystal Simone Smith, Evie Shockley, Camille T. Dungy, Carole Boston Weatherford, and many others. Individually, these poems, stories, and essays have helped these Carolinians voice their experiences, remind us of our history, and insist on change, and gathered together, their chorus is turned all the way up and demands to be heard. These writers have shaped the modern literary landscape of the Carolinas for the last twenty-five years and will continue to influence and inspire African-American writers for generations to come.Trade Review"All The Songs We Sing is a complex, nuanced ballad, an important ensemble of voices worth listening to and spending careful time with. The artists of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective have not only brought the noise, they’ve brought the music."—Southern Review of Books "All the Songs We Sing dazzles in scope and variety, highlighting the expansive talents of African American storytellers and poets from the Carolinas...This anthology contains a triumphant choir of stories, essays, and poems that sing from their guts...An expansive and poignant harmony of Black poets and writers that will inspire and uplift any reader wanting to listen."—Lindsay Lake, Raleigh ReviewTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Preface—Lenard D. Moore Introduction—Jaki Shelton Green (North Carolina Poet Laureate) Fiction “Sophia” (excerpt from Salt in the Sugar Bowl) Angela Belcher-Epps “When the Stars Begin to Fall” Tracie Fellers “A History of Wanting” (excerpt from Fes is a Mirror) Chantal James “On the Border” Melina Mangal “Thomas” Lenard D. Moore “Sanctuary” Sheila Smith McKoy Poetry “Pray” Oktavi Allison “When I Consider The Open Casket” Kim Arrington “An Unrelenting Meal” Beverly Fields Burnette “Artichoke Pickle Passion: Sonnet” Beverly Fields Burnette “Donny Hathaway” Christian Campbell “portrait of pink, or blush” Adrienne Christian “The Moment At Hand” L. Teresa Church “Golden Whistles for Emmett Till” L. Teresa Church “Woman-Child” L. Teresa Church “Brown Fedora” L. Teresa Church Haiku— “sliver of moonlight,” “rose-laying,” “springtime farewell,” “navy blue hearse,” “wild onions” L. Teresa Church “Things My Father Taught Me” DeLana R.A. Dameron “Dear—,” DeLana R.A. Dameron “Black Barbie” celeste doaks “Black Lotus” celeste doaks The Grill Master” celeste doaks “What to Eat, and What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison” Camille T. Dungy “7 Lessons in Pedagogy” Camille T. Dungy “That Feeling I Get” Cynthia M. Gary “Rise” Cynthia M. Gary “A Link Between Worlds” Ashley Harris “The Pictograph Selfie” Ashley Harris “Annuals and Perennials” Janice W. Hodges “All Children Are our Children” Janice W. Hodges (The Call) and Lana Williams (Response) “Answer” Janice W. Hodges “Love Poem” Janice W. Hodges “Barrage” Janice W. Hodges “sons of the dark” Brian H. Jackson “Ghazali” Chantal James “First Breath” Valjeanne Jeffers “Out of This World” Valjeanne Jeffers “My Best Days” Valjeanne Jeffers “In A Place Where” Patricia A. Johnson “Somebody’s Child” Patricia A. Johnson “In My Father’s House” Patricia A. Johnson “Aftermath” Diane Judge “Because of Emmett Till” Diane Judge “When I Thought Of Racism” Diane Judge “Poet: Code’s Story” Raina J. Leon “Iset, God And Mother” Raina J. Leon “Persephone (Call Me Perse)” Raina J. Leon “Interrogation of Harriet Tubman” Lenard D. Moore “A Reminiscing Daddy” Lenard D. Moore “Bop: Coaching Poets” Lenard D. Moore “Haiku—the dark rock-road” Maiisha L. Moore “Mai Bahamian Haiku” Maiisha L. Moore “Color Like This” Grace Ocasio “Deeper Than Skin” Grace Ocasio “Walking Sepia” Grace Ocasio “the ballad of anita hill” evie shockley “ballad of bertie county” evie shockley “Vitals” Crystal Simone Smith “Greyhound” Crystal Simone Smith “Whole Fish” Crystal Simone Smith “Sweetness” Sheila Smith McKoy “Pollination: Outskirts of Raleigh, NC 1968” Sheila Smith McKoy “Brother Haints” Darrell “SCIPOET” Stover “North Star Blues” Darrell “SCIPOET” Stover “Rattle Grass at Fort Fisher” Darrell “SCIPOET” Stover “Black Light: To MLK, Jr.” Gina Streaty “Sojourner: Daughter of Eden” Gina Streaty “Elementary Days” Gina Streaty “Your David, My Soul” Cedric Tillman “Tact” Cedric Tillman “A Few Years In” Cedric Tillman “Tired Enough To Fill A River Of Sleep” Karen Wade “Blackbirds Listen” Karen Wade “Driving Lesson” Jacqueline D. Washington “New Spring” Jacqueline D. Washington “Morning Rises” Jacqueline D. Washington “The Archeologist: Excavating the Long Green” Carole Boston Weatherford “The question of Doctor Isaac Copper” Carole Boston Weatherford “Isaac Copper I: Why I Am Called Doctor or Minister” Carole Boston Weatherford “Ashe” Lana C. Williams “The Dowry” Lana C. Williams “Legacy of Somebody’s Baby” Lana C. Williams “I Am Black & Comely” L. Lamar Wilson “You Da Only Man I Ever Loves, Daddy: Lot’s Daughters” L. Lamar Wilson “Haiku” (“the smell of tomato plants,” “pale ferns,” “early frost” and “water from the sky”) Gideon Young Creative Nonfiction/Memoir/Essays “A Literary Mission Accomplished: Twenty Years of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective” L. Teresa Church “From dirt” Camille T. Dungy “Perennials” Angela Belcher Epps “The World Loses Its Former Shape: Caught in the Undertow of Grief” Chantal James “Scents and Sensibility: The loss of smell brings an unexpected gift” Bridgette A. Lacy “An Onslow County Tradition” Lenard D. Moore “Tuck Hughes” Gina Streaty Afterword: “Report from Part Three”: All the Songs We Sing: The Legacy of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective”—Dr. Lauri Scheyer [Ramey], Eminent Scholar and author of A History of African American Poetry (2019) Acknowledgments About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe expansion of Marvel and DC Comics’ characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre—receiving wide literary and popular attention. This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gil Scott-Heron, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Tracy K. Smith, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Joshua Bennett, Douglas Kearney, Tara Betts, Frank X Walker, Tyree Daye, and others. In addition, the anthology will also feature the work of artists such as John Jennings and Najee Dorsey, showcasing their interpretations of superheroes, Black comic characters, Afrofuturistic images from the African diaspora.Trade Review"A formidable collection of talent...The Future of Black is a necessary compendium of early 21st-century Afrofuturistic verse and thought."—Los Angeles Review of Books"Superstars of poetry have created work around both real-life and fictional superheroes in this innovative collection of poetry and art... This unique volume is a wonderful addition to library collections invested in the celebration of Black voices and Black visual art."—Booklist"The Future of Black is a marvel. Some of the best Black voices out there deconstructing subjects we've all come to know intimately. But not like this. Superheroes and superheroism, pop-culture and genre media are transmuted into poetry that is sharp and staggering. Pick this book up and savor it. You won't regret it."—Cadwell Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters and The LessonTable of ContentsTable of Contents Sheree Reneé Thomas, “The Sun Burnt Up and Other Reasons to Riot” Introduction from the Editors MAN OF STEEL Borelson, Unleashed Lucille Clifton, “if i should,” “further note to clark,” “final note to clark,” “note passed to superman” Frank X. Walker, “new note to clark kent” Turtel Onli, M10 teri elam, “Superman Retires” Ashley M. Jones, “Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane No. 106” Cynthia Manick, “Dear Superman” MORE SUPERHEROES John Jennings, Afrofuturism Gary Jackson, “Nightcrawler Buys a Woman a Drink” Yorli Huff, Superhero Huff A. Van Jordan, “The Flash Reverses Time” Keith S. Wilson, “Aubade on Bachelorhood and Never Becoming the Flash” Tony Medina, “Blue Dick Blue Balls” Loretta Diane Walker, "Princess Diana of Themyscira, Aka Wonder Woman" BLACK SUPERHEROES Yorli Huff, Superhero Huff Steven Leyva, “Ode to Static” Derrick Weston Brown, “Bruuuuuh or When Brothers Debate Black Panther in a Safeway parking Lot.” Tara Betts, “Storm Writes to Black Panther,” “Oya Invites Storm to Tea” Sheree Reneé Thomas, “If There Is Darkness,” Grisel Acosta, “I of the Hurricane” Amanda Johnston, “Blade Speaks at Career Day” Borelson, Channeling the Energy Tim Seibles, “Blade, the Daywalker,” “Blade, Historical,” “Blade, Unplugged” Cynthia Manick, “Praise for Luke Cage’s Skin and Starshine” Gary Jackson, “Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is” BLACK ANTIHEROES Wolly McNair, Raven Sheree Reneé Thomas, “Eartha Kitt Reflects On Cat Woman” Steven Leyva, “Ode to Lando Calrissian” Len Lawson, The Amanda Waller Suite “Episode 1: Amanda Waller Enters the War Room,” “Episode 2: Amanda Waller Attracts a Bat,” “Episode 3: Amanda Waller Has a Woman-to-Woman with Harley Quinn,” “Episode 4: Amanda Waller Assembles a Suicide Squad” John Jennings, Ajala Rodney Wilder, “Invocation” Cortney Lamar Charleston, “Elegy for Kilmonger With My Own Pain Entering Frame” Frank X. Walker, “New Rules for Crime Fighting” BLACK POP CULTURE Najee Dorsey, Southern Futurist over Civil War Soil Saida Agostini, “the ending where queen and slim live” Derrick Weston Brown, “So Jon Snow and Colin Kaepernick are in a pub…” Alice Kandolo, Let's Party in Space Tara Betts, “Before Sasha Lights a Bonfire,” “To Lieutenant Nyota Uhura” Casey Rocheteau, “Sun Ra Speaks to Gucci Mane” TJ Anderson, “Space is the Place” Qunicy Scott Jones, “‘post-racial' as Samuel L. Jackson” BLACK HISTORY Karo Duro, city upon a hill Joshua Bennett, “Frederick Douglass Is Dead” Quentin VerCetty, the new Queen's Gates Yona Harvey, "In Toni Morrison's Head" Keith S. Wilson, “uncanny emmett till” Yorli Huff, Agent Huff Ashley M. Jones, “Soul Power / James Brown Time Loop” Peter Schmidt, “Octavius V. Catto” avery r. young, “((( in my marvin gaye voice ))) light year(s) / ahead friday (2020) – poem” Moriah S. Webster, “Harlem [3]” Joshua Bennett, “When Thy King Was a Boy” VIDEO GAMES & FANTASY Karo Duro, Woman of sand and stone Trace DePass, “ode to pokemon trainer Red” Ashley Harris, “God Usopp,” “Majora’s Mask,” “Ode to Pinky and the Brain” Wolly McNair, Black Magic Is Only Bad in the Movies Rico Frederick, “Keep De Hacksaw on Mary Poppin's Throat” Cortney Lamar Charleston, “Grand Theft Auto III (2001)” Douglas Kearney, from “Over Deluxe AF,” “Maroon AF,” “But Black, It Can’t—" NEW ORIGINS Alex Kandolo, Galaxy Woman Dexter Booth, “Jim Crow’s Dirge” Glenis Redmond, “How to Become Your Own Supershero” Joshua Bennett, “The Book of Mycah” Najee Dorsey, B4-Rosa—Here I Stand Teri Ellen Cross David, “Origin Story” Cagen Luse, Generations Tony Medina, “Five Chanclas of Death,” “The Original” Terrance Hayes, “Shafro,” “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” Douglas Kearney, “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always” Saida Agostini, “speculative fiction: apocalypse” Derrick Weston Brown, “Derrick Weston Brown Sonsplains AfroFuturist/Speculative Social Science to his Mother, a therapist who is also a longtime member of The National Association of Black Social Workers” NEW FAITH CONSTRUCTS Karo Duro, The oracle Richard Garcia, “Black Jesus” Khalif Thompson, Toyin Salau Rico Frederick, “A Better Savior” Bianca X, “Creation Myth” Natalie J. Graham, “The Origin of Moths” Craig Stevens, “As It Is in Heaven” BLACK WOMEN NARRATIVES Nikki Giovanni, “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” Teri Ellen Cross Davis, “The Goddess of Anger” Ashley M. Jones, “Friendly Skies, or Black Woman Speaks Herself into God” Kevin Johnson, Looking for Hope Tim Fab-Eme, “Mitochondrial Eve” Kevin Johnson, Resolving Sorrow Terese Mason Pierre, “La Diablesse” Maurya Kerr, “Sonnet I” Karo Duro, Arch Angel Tony Medina, “Well, You Needn’t” Les James, “Why Black Women Write Horror Stories:” Yona Harvey, "Dark & Lovely after Take-Off (A Future)" AFROFUTURISM & SPECULATIVE POETRY Jamal A. Michel, FATE: Fight for Idriss Saida Agostini, “the moongazer speaks on longing” Cagen Luse, Afronaut Tyree Daye, “give them the moon—here” Tracy K. Smith, “Sci-Fi,” “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” “The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” A. Van Jordan, “Einstein Defining Special Relativity” Gil Scott-Herron, “Whitey on the Moon” Ashley Harris, “Fireworks” Joshua Bennett, "In Defense of Passing" John Jennings, Black Kirby Steven Leyva, “The Silver Screen Asks, ‘What’s Up Danger?’ After We Enter” John Jennings, Octavia Butler (73rd Birthday) Tony Medina, “Banner day” Keith S. Wilson, “Heliocentric” Quincy Scott Jones, “Untitled” upfromsumdirt, “SPACESHIP FOR SALE,” “Fair Gabbro Travels Time To View The End Of Days” Rashida James-Saadiya, “One day the sky began to weep and did so for 300 days” Anastacia Renee, “III.,” “apocalypse (400)” Nikia Chaney, “Untitled,” “spinnerman spinnerman” Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, “excerpt from FUGUE: THE SIGHT” Yvonne McBride, “By the Blood Moon Bridge” Dexter Booth, “The Coon Show” Yona Harvey, "Q." Tim Seibles, “Something Like We Did” Contributors Afrofuturism Syllabus Resources

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Book SynopsisTurn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited by Stephen Cramer, is a vibrant anthology of 400 pages, including poems by everyone from Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Rita Dove to Yusef Komunyakaa, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, and Danez Smith. The book contains 88 poets in all (the number of keys on a piano) and is split into three sections: poems about jazz, poems about blues and rock, and poems about hip-hop. The now famous quote -- writing about music is like dancing about architecture -- has been attributed to everyone from Theolonious Monk to Frank Zappa to Elvis Costello. How can one pin down an invisible craft like music with the more absolute definitions of language? Well, the poets in Turn It Up!, responding to everyone from Louis Armstrong to the Rolling Stones to Public Enemy, prove that it can be done, and done in style.

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Book SynopsisNow available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder—a perfect gift.When a group of fifth-grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some the world’s most beloved poems, from classic to modern, that continues to offer inspiration, solace, wisdom, and amusement. Each poem is accompanied by the celebrity’s brief letter explaining why they chose it and its resonance for them.Among the celebrities are Yo-Yo Ma, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Lansbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Harolyn Blackwell, Isabella Rossellini, Bill Irwin, E. L. Doctorow, David Mamet, Elie Wiesel, Ally Sheedy, Ved Mehta, Tom Wolfe, David Dinkins, and Susan Minot. The poets include Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Alice Walker, Mary Oliver, Frank O’Hara, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats. and John Keats—not to mention Noel Coward and a ditty by David Mamet himself! Anna Quindlen and verse from Pulitzer Prize–winner Yusef Komunyakaa provide a thoughtful introduction.Royalties from this collection have been donated to charity since its original publication.

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