Gathering ground : a reader celebrating Cave Canem's first decade / Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, editors ; Camille T. Dungy, assistant editor ; introduction by Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, and the editors.

For Mairead / M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde 13
Peeling Off the Skin / Opal Palmer Adisa 14
When / Elizabeth Alexander 17
The Taste of Apples / Lauren K. Alleyne 18
seven crown man / Holly Bass 19
Bop Poem / Venise N. Battle 21
LL. Benbow Relates the Circumstances Surrounding Vernell Spraggins's Recent Ejection from Hell / Herman Beavers 22
Miranda Remembers Cuba, 1974 / Michelle Courtney Berry 24
For Those Who Need a True Story / Tara Betts 26
Spirit Led / Angela A. Bickham 28
Marchers Headed for Washington, Baltimore 1963 / Remica L. Bingham 30
H.N.I.C. (Head Nigger in Charge) / Shane Book 32
Crossing Over / Angela Brooks 35
Thirty Mile Woman: Sixo's Song / Derrick Weston Brown 36
Detailing the Nape / Jericho Brown 37
Dreadlocks / Toni Brown 38
Blessing the Lepers / Gloria Burgess 39
Coil / C.M. Burroughs 40
[surely i am able to write poems] / Lucille Clifton 42
Sister / Taiyon Coleman 43
Twelve Year Poem / Lauri Conner 44
Robbing hoods / Curtis L. Crisler 46
Haint / Teri Ellen Cross 48
Standing Ground / Traci Dant 49
Search for Robert Hayden / Kyle G. Dargan 50
Carapace / Hayes Davis 51
Atlantic Coasts / Jarita Davis 52
Tall Man Flies / Kwame Dawes 54
Juke Joint Josephine / Jarvis Q. Deberry 56
my dad & sardines / Toi Derricotte 57
A Love Supreme / Joel Dias-Porter 58
mug shot pedigree / La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs 60
The Street of Look Behind / R. Erica Doyle 61
Code / Camille T. Dungy 63
I'm a Fool to Love You / Cornelius Eady 64
Uncollected Ghazal / Michele Elliott 66
Music Lesson / Phebus Etienne 67
True Autumn / Chanda Feldman 68
Stewards / Nikky Finney 70
Worship / Reginald L. Flood 71
is / Cherryl Floyd-Miller 73
Saturday Nights at the Bug Inn, 1986 / Krista Franklin 74
A Human Landscape: On Coyotes / John Frazier 75
Corner Yard / Deidre R. Gantt 76
Unclean. Make me / Ross Gay 77
Zeitgeist o: Zeitgeist 63-69 / Regie O'Hare Gibson 78
Talkin' Back to Mama / Carmen R. Gillespie 80
Palimpsest / Aracelis Girmay 81
of / Monica A. Hand 82
Goodbye Porkpie Hat / Michael S. Harper 83
Phou / Duriel E. Harris 84
Coward / Francine J. Harris 86
MT in Solitary / Reginald Harris 87
In Toni Morrison's Head / Yona Harvey 88
Pine / Terrance Hayes 90
Lovely's Song / Tonya Cherie Hegamin 92
Nigger Street 1937 / Sean Hill 95
summer / Andre O. Hoilette 96
Love Worn / Lita Hooper 98
Poem for a Second / Erica Hunt 99
The Chosen One / Kate Hymes 101
Family Outing / Linda Susan Jackson 102
from Urban Renewal, xvi: "What of my fourth grade teacher at Reynolds Elementary" / Major Jackson 103
Muse, a Lady Cautioning / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 104
bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920 / Tyehimba Jess 105
Spirit of the Dead Watching / Amaud Jamaul Johnson 106
listen / Brandon D. Johnson 107
in the Quarter / Karma Mayet Johnson 108
Kind of Blue / A. Van Jordan 109
The Now of Aunt Marie / Carolyn C. Joyner 111
The Haymarket / John Keene 112
soprano / M. Nzadi Keita 113
Response to Pasiphae / Ruth Ellen Kocher 114
The Blue Hour / Yusef Komunyakaa 115
Clair de Lune / Jacqueline Jones LaMon 116
long way home / Quraysh Ali Lansana 117
The Sniff / Carmelo Larose 118
Yellow Is in the Eye of the Beholder / Virginia K. Lee 119
Christ and Magdalene / Raina J. Leon 121
The Devil Is Beating His Wife Again / Doughtry "Doc" Long 123
Artificial Insemination of a Working-Class Lesbian / Kenyetta Lovings 124
Understanding Al Green / Adrian Matejka 125
An Offering / Shara McCallum 127
The First Time We Heard "Flyin' Home" / Carrie Allen McCray 128
One More Silver Dollar / Ernesto Mercer 129
The Temple of Greed & Mildew / Dante Micheaux 131
Relapse of Winter in Frankfurt / Jonathan Moody 132
What a Snakehead Discovered in a Maryland Pond and a Poet in Corporate America Have in Common / Kamilah Aisha Moon 133
Tap-Root / Indigo Moor 134
A Quiet Rhythm of Sleep / Lenard D. Moore 136
Drinking Mojitos in Cuba Libre / Harryette Mullen 138
Woman with a Chignon / Marilyn Nelson 139
In The Way That Longing Is, a sonnet cento for Cave Canem / Mendi Lewis Obadike 140
Winter After the Strike / Gregory Pardlo 142
The only shine on the Titanic / Carlo Toli Paul 144
Ode to the Triays of Amelia / Gwen Triay Samuels 147
Under a Soprano Sky / Sonia Sanchez 149
Ambition: II. Mosquito in the Mist / Tim Seibles 150
W.E.B. in Ghana / Elaine Shelly 153
Parade of Flesh / Cherene Sherrard 154
The Poet, 1955 / Kevin Simmonds 156
Asking for a Heart Attack / Patricia Smith 157
Duende / Tracy K. Smith 158
Exile Propriety / Christina Springer 160
Mete / Christopher Stackhouse 162
border town / Nicole Terez 163
Dress / Amber Flora Thomas 164
West Indian Girl Contemplates the Push / Samantha Thornhill 165
Wild Like That / Venus Thrash 166
Miscegenation / Natasha Trethewey 167
Maul / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 168
Prophet as Slow Bird / Wendy S. Walters 170
Silver Rights / Nagueyalti Warren 171
Charleston / Afaa Michael Weaver 172
259 Brooklyn Avenue / Arisa White 174
The Early Brilliance of Dwayne / Simone White 176
Book of Ruth / Carolyn Beard Whitlow 177
These Bones / Karen Williams 179
prescription or for what ails you or poetry on demand / Treasure Williams 182
Garden of Eden Blues / Bridgette A. Wimberly 184
Nola / Yolanda Wisher 185
Good News from the River / Toni Wynn 187
To Go for Broke / Al Young 188
Hard Headed Blues / Kevin Young 189.