Beyond the frontier : African American poetry for the 21st century / edited by E. Ethelbert Miller.

After the 200th White Person Locks Her Car {...} / Bruce A. Jacobs
Exits from Elmina Castle: Cape Coast, Ghana / Toi Derricotte
Born / Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
Trying to Sleep After Studying Color Photos {...} / Monifa A. Love
Invisibles / Joanne M. Braxton
Barrage / Ruth-Miriam Garnett
The Woman Who Jumped / M. Eliza Hamilton
Bound / Odetta D. Norton
Soul Roots / Felicia L. Morgenstern
1619. Virginia / Gale P. Jackson
1691. Tituba of Salem / Gale P. Jackson
From the Spirit of Phillis Wheatley {...} / Karen Williams
Gone / Calvin Forbes
If Harriet Tubman Were Alive Today / Verneda (Rikki) Lights
Circumcising Pandora / Mirlande Jean-Gilles
Praisesong: From Son to Mother / Lenard D. Moore
Harvest / Stephen Caldwe Wright
Dream of Mango / Rohan B. Preston
Thermometer / Giovanni Singleton
Defensive driving / Giovanni Singleton
Locks / Joy Dawson
Port Townsend Poems / Pinkie Gordon Lane
Haiku / C. Yaphet Brinson
Memorial / Charmaine A. Gill
Memory of Wings / Jabari Asim
Returning the Water / Angela Shannon
I Am a Creature of the Obvious / Keith Antar Mason
Refugee / Gideon Ferebee
Moons ... tides / Andre J. Baldwin
Legacy / Sydney March
When Africa Speaks / Jude Chudi Okpala
African Sunrunner / Wanda Winbush-David
Senegal Sestina / Odetta D. Norton
Tattoo, or Henna / Odetta D. Norton
Meditations I / Duriel E. Harris
White / Ronaldo V. Wilson

Blue / Carl Phillips
Passing Through This House / Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
Objects of Desire / Monifa A. Love
Poem for the Purchase of a First Bra / Allison Joseph
Michele / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
At Five / Oktavi
Help / Rosamond S. King
Anotherday / Rosamond S. King
Washboard Wizard / Marilyn Nelson
The Prayer of Miss Budd / Marilyn Nelson
Drifter / Marilyn Nelson
Love Song of a Red Cap / Sam Cornish
Landmarks / Claude Wilkinson
For my 27th birthday / Giovanni Singleton
A Debt is Paid / A. Van Jordan
Boy at the Paterson Falls / Toi Derricotte
Walking On: A Declaration of Wholeness / Saddi Khali
Something Terrible Something / Sam Cornish
Pretty White Girls / James E. Cherry
Gentleman at the Barbershop / S. Brandi Barnes
Roots / Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani
Black Drag Queen / A. Van Jordan
Fruitbowl 1 / Imani E. Wilson
I Know I Aint Hip No More / Peter J. Harris
Revolutionary Thoughts / Crystal Williams
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing / Toi Derricotte
In Search of Aunt Jemima / Crystal Williams
Raindrop Women / Mariahadessa Tallie
What I Am / Terrance Hayes
To the People of a Small Town in Ohio ... / William Henry Lewis
The Tar Baby on the Soapbox / Carole Boston Weatherford
Beaches / Zak Robbins
Vivian, Take 57 / Bruce A. Jacobs
Annuals and Perennials / Janice W. Hodges
Mississippi on the Doorstep / Sam Cornish
The Love of Travellers / Angela Jackson

Smile / Reuben Jackson
Work to be Done / Sam Cornish
The Fitting Room / Angela Jackson
Land of the Lost / Charles Porter
City in You / Michael Hill
Peace Be Still / Esther Iverem
Untitled / Eli Goodwin
American Sonnet (46) / Wanda Coleman
Black on Black / Bruce A. Jacobs
Memorial Drive / Willie Abraham Howard, Jr.
Sunday / Angela Shannon
Going Home / Toneka N. Bonitto Burwell
Leaving Winston-Salem / Toneka N. Bonitto Burwell
Charleston, South Carolina / Christopher Nickelson
My Mother / Melvin E. Lewis
We / Janeya K. Hisle
Gullah Women / Melvin E. Lewis
JoNelle / Angela Shannon
Things No One Told Me / Opal Palmer Adisa
Integration / Angela Shannon
Dirt / Stacy Lynn
After an All Day Skirmish with the Clouds / Eli Goodwin
Blackbottom / Toi Derricotte
Baltimore / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
Lost / Bruce A. Jacobs
Child in the New Delhi Sun / Garrett McDowell
Threnody / Kalamu Ya Salaam
Soledad / Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
Meridian Hill Terrace / Wendy S. Walters
7-30-96 / Erren Geraud Kelly
Brother is a Star / Rachel E. Harding
Call and Response / D. J. Renegade
Snapshot: West Philly / Kimmika L. H. Williams
The Bible Buckle / Rozell Caldwell
Saints / Lana C. Williams
How to Make It / Yvonne A. Jackson
Audre's Son / John Frazier
It's a Dog's Life / Bruce A. Jacobs
Dungle sublime / Ronaldo V. Wilson

Yellow is Me, But All the Same Are We / Joan Adams
An Irresistible Light / Dorothy Phaire
April 19,19 -: A Sonnet / George Elliott Clarke
Bruised Children / Janice W. Hodges
Worry All the Time / Alison Morris
Midnight in Mississippi / M. Eliza Hamilton
For the Man I Met on Georgia Ave / Matthew Watley
My Family / Nyere-Gibran Miller
Mother's Day at McDonald's / Patricia Elam
The Major / Bernard Keller
Hazing / Brian Gilmore
Father and Son / D. J. Renegade
Father's shoes / Tyehimba Jess
Father country / Tyehimba Jess
100 Times / Arnold J. Kemp
Those I love are sometimes white / Imani Tolliver
Paralyzed / Willie Abraham Howard, Jr.
The Museum Cashier / Yona Camille Harvey
Dedicated to the domestics / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Astrology? / Valerie Jean
Moon Daughters / Artress Bethany White
Passing / Carl Phillips
Sterling Brown / Ronald D. Palmer
Matisse, Cut Outs / Trasi Johnson
Stranger in the Village / Lorelei Williams
They Do Not Have to Nest in Your Hair / Carolyn Joyner
Rain Making / Dana Gilkes
Thoughts From a 747 / Dana Gilkes
Space / Verneda (Rikki) Lights
High School / Toi Derricotte
Tattooed Girl / Monica A. Hand
Cross Burning Black / Willie Abraham Howard, Jr.
She-Ghosts of Tiresias / Monica A. Hand
The Science of Forgetting / Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
The Lock and Key / Vicki-Ann Asservero
Spirit of the Dancer / Lisa Elaine Johnson

As Dancers / Lisa Teasley
Help is a Discotheque / Eddie Bell
For lester / Reggie Timpson
Bird / James E. Cherry
Mom Used to Listen to Erroll Garner / Everett Goodwin
John Birks Gillespie: an appreciation {...} / Everett Goodwin
Chittlin's / Cornelius Eady
Thelonius / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
Monk / Gaston Neal
Monk's Misterioso / Sydney March
The Fourth Supreme / Allison Joseph
Stevie Wonder / Lyn'elle Patrice Chapman
The Mighty Blood / A. Anthony Vessup
Noon Talk at Georgia's Coffee Shop / Allison Joseph
Burn Rubber on Me / Goldie Williams (Derrick X.)
Photo of Ron Carter, Playing His Bass / Cornelius Eady
Savannah Brass / Verneda (Rikki) Lights
Set Piece / Houston A. Baker, Jr.
A Thousand Marionettes / Sydney March
Verbal gun shots / Reggie Timpson
Dr. Jack / Thomas Stanley
Vipers, Flies, and Women of the Cloth / James Coleman
Visiting Hours / John Frazier
Concerning Violence / Ruth-Miriam Garnett
Rehearsal / Baba Lukata
Alley Games 6/the ascension / Ira B. Jones
Glass Box Puzzle No. 1 / Andre J. Baldwin
December 12th / Zak Robbins
Examination / Stacy Lynn
A White Man and the Judge / Kevin Simmonds
The Good Ole Days / Harriet Wilkes Washington
I Love You, Though You're Unemployed / Dawn L. Hannaham
If there's no sugar / Dawn L. Hannaham
The Edge / Paul Jamal
The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele
Who Sez Thunderbirds Can't Fly / Gary Lilley

Imperialism-The Dancing Do Not Die / Thomas Stanley
Park mole / Merilene M. Murphy
The Artifice of War / Brandon D. Johnson
Generation Gap / Tammy Lynn Pertillar
Funeral / Gary Lilley
Say Something: A Change is Gonna Come / Mbali Umoja
Some Solace, Some Yearning / William Henry Lewis
In Oklahoma / Toni Asante Lightfoot
Black tax / Nzadi Zimele Keita
What is left / Nzadi Zimela Keita
A Guard / John Frazier
Sorrow Song / John Frazier
1st Lt. Vernon J. Baker: Hero on the Hill / Jabari Asim
Staff. Sgt. Edward A. Carter, Jr. {...} / Jabari Asim
1st Lt. John R. Fox: Rain of Fire / Jabari Asim
The Names of Summer: A War Memory / Harold L. Johnson
At the Jackson Pollock Retrospective in L.A. / Harold L. Johnson
Our Second Night / Viki Radden
Letter from Kuwait / Lenard D. Moore
A Black soldier / Lenard D. Moore
Four and Twenty Soldiers / S. P. Shephard
Come and See My Little Toys / S. P. Shephard
Homeless Vets / S. P. Shephard
Suicides and Fools / S. P. Shephard
Lights of the Bigtop / Garrett McDowell
This mortal coil / Robert Fleming
The Plea / Calvin Forbes
Girlfriend / Lori Tsang
To Keep from Shouting Something / Honoree F. Jeffers
Our Mothers / Melanie Hope
She kneels at the wailing wall / Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Color-Struck / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
For My Mother / Duriel E. Harris
For My Mother / Gideon Ferebee
Fallen Bodies / Gideon Ferebee

The Long Walk Home / Robert Fleming
Back road / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Grand Diva / Thandiwe Shiphrah
To adam / Thandiwe Shiphrah
Grandma / Thandiwe Shiphrah
While Communing with a Tree {...} / M. Eliza Hamilton
Friendly Skies / Bruce A. Jacobs
And all the sisters said ... / Janeya K. Hisle
Angry sisters / Christopher Nickelson
Three men / Christopher Nickelson
Untitled / Christopher Nickelson
For Fatma and Her Co-wives / Janeya K. Hisle
What is There for Us? / Jacqueline Joan Johnson
Be Careful When You Go Looking {...} / Pat Russell
Rising / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Cycles / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Meetin the Conjure Woman / Gary Lilley
Wet Oak / Angela Shannon
Hands / Angela Shannon
The Beelzebub Chronicles / Artress Bethany White
Stringbeans / Kay Lindsey
The Star / Clyde A. Wray
Private Thoughts / Clyde A. Wray
Sin, 1969 / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
Lines / Afaa Michael S. Weaver
Midnight / Terrance Hayes
Ashy Gal / Baba Lukata
What does a man do / Tyehimba Jess
Why I Don't Leave the Apartment {...} / Kalamu Ya Salaam
Haiku # 135 / Kalamu Ya Salaam
Grand Canyon / Estelle E. Farley
Home Cookin / Estelle E. Farley
Daniel's Hands / Niama Leslie Williams
Cornbread blues / Vincent Woodward
Licorice / Laini Mataka
Can We Talk? / Laini Mataka
Interpretations / Baba Lukata
Kiss her that she don't know how / Carletta Carrington Wilson
Fisher king / Imani Tolliver

Fire/Water Blues / Darrell Stover
To a Flasher / Dawn L. Hannaham
Finished Poem / Michelle Calhoun Greene
For My D.C. Girlfriends / Michelle Calhoun Greene
Perspective / Lisa Pegram
The New Sestina / Kevin Simmonds
In This, the Fifth World / Jennifer Lisa Vest
Hearts / Melvin E. Lewis
Why I Won't Wear a Tatoo / Tracie Morris
Lover's Total Recall / Tracie Morris
Just Say No Blues / Tracie Morris
Prelude to a Kiss / Tracie Morris
Yet another epiphany / Lisa Pegram
Deposed / John Frazier
Untitled / Lauren Anita Arrington
(1/vacant) / Nadir Lasana Bomani
I watched / Kimmika L. H. Williams
My sleeping husband / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Poem # 3 / Sybil J. Roberts
Love # 49 / Reuben Jackson
Soul gestures in spring / Michael Datcher
Word/Life / Charlie R. Braxton
Sextet / C. Yaphet Brinson
Back to the Blues / S. Brandi Barnes
When you say no / Merilene M. Murphy
Voudou Mama / Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani
Roots I: {...} / Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Roots II: the conjure woman replies / Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Taboo / Cherryl Floyd-Miller
Lessons in lying / Nzadi Zimele Keita
Stranger / Tisa Bryant
More Than Anything / Doreen Baingana
One More Once / Reuben Jackson
Control / Janice W. Hodges
Imani's Song / Alison Morris
Crushin / Stacy Lynn
Obessions are Important / Primus St. John
Nice Sister-Scholars Need Loving, Too / David Earl Jackson

Temple of Your Familiar / Felicia L. Morgenstern
Ride Me Baby, Ride Me / Felicia L. Morgenstern
Hues of Electric Blue / Felicia L. Morgenstern
Black Women with Jewish Names / James Coleman
Loving / Angela Jackson
Sex / Viki Radden
When You Talk That Talk / Viki Radden
Blood / Viki Radden
Jesus' song / Esther Louise
Moment / Angela Jackson
Zoning / Joanne M. Braxton
Coming to the net / Brian Gilmore
Untitled One / Kwan Booth
Negroes / Matthew Watley
The Next Malcolm Poem / Peter J. Harris
Shame of the Writers' Conference / Allison Joseph
Gale Sayers / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Brown Bomber / Sam Cornish
The Knockout / Sydney March
And the Birds Sing of Life / Stephen Caldwell Wright
Confession / Eli Goodwin
Just Asking / Carl Hancock Rux
Lookin good / Stacy Lynn
When I Leave My Body / Rohan B. Preston
As from a Quiver of Arrows / Carl Phillips
October death / Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke
October 7th / Zak Robbins
Haiku for My Brothers / Ira B. Jones
One Million Men Marching II / Bernard Keller
Keep a Good Thought / Bernard Keller
What My Mother Taught Me / Shara McCallum
Praise the Daughter / Melanie Hope
Ezili Impending / Rachel E. Harding
I am open / Michael Datcher
Sea Shells / Lorna Lowe
100 Million / Matthew Watley
Storm / Brandon D. Johnson
Mary, Don't You Weep / Honoree F. Jeffers
A Streetwalker Trying to Speak {...} / Elaine Maria Upton

The black experience / Mwatabu S. Okantah
African Morning / Mwatabu S. Okantah
Market day / Mwatabu S. Okantah
Stranger at Home / James R. Lee
Anacaona / Danielle Legros Georges
Another Ode to Salt / Danielle Legros Georges
Jamaica, October 18, 1972 / Shara McCallum
Saudades / Jacqueline Joan Johnson
Mississippi: Bell Zone 1 / Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
For Brothas That Like to Holla / Kenneth Carroll
A song for serpents / Kysha N. Brown
Yu no send. Me no come / Shara McCallum
Nuclear Peril / Pinkie Gordon Lane
History of the quilt {...} / Carletta Carrington Wilson
How to Build a Prayer / S. Pearl Sharp
From the Mouth of the Gxara / Carole Boston Weatherford
The Song to Come / Doreen Baingana
Lunching / Lori Tsang
The Beloved Ones / E. Juaguina Watkins-Cothran
Swinging doors of knocking-wood {...} / Esther Louise
At the Threshold of the Moon / Gigi Maria Ross
Surrender / Amitiyah Elayne Hyman
Morning Buddhism / E. Ethelbert Miller.