360 Degrees: A Revolution of Black Poets,9781888018127

360 Degrees: A Revolution of Black Poets

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ISBN13: 9781888018127
ISBN10: 1888018127
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
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Summary

Edited by New Orleans writer/producer Kalamu ya Salaam with writer/publisher Kwame Alexander, 360 includes sharp-edged new work from Amiri Baraka, a historic founder of the sixties Black Arts Movement and Grand divas Sonia Sanchez, author of Wounded in the House of a Friend and Does Your House Have Lions, and Mari Evans, author of the classic I Am a Black Woman.

Table of Contents

Foreword Forward: Evolution of a New Era in Black Words i
Kwame Alexander
Life
1(1)
Our Women
2(2)
New School Sketches
4(2)
Amiri Baraka
Answers In Progress
6(1)
Fusion Recipe
7(1)
Class Gas
8(1)
Oklahoma Enters The Third World
9(1)
The People's Last Will & Testament
10(1)
Ras Baraka
Hayes \ Tilden (1877)
11(3)
Ghetto Tales
14(2)
Toni Blackman
the black woman's struggle
16(1)
where's daddy?
17(1)
samplin'
18(2)
rwandan sleep
20(1)
Nadir Lasana Bomani
(untitled)
21(1)
Shooting Stars
22(2)
a poem for ruby mae
24(2)
Roger Bonair-Agard
daddy
26(3)
...Requiem
29(2)
Kysha N. Brown
when lost, ask for directions
31(3)
nudity
34(1)
fierce spherical woman
35(1)
Wanda Coleman
Dreams Without Means
36(1)
Single Doom Occupancy
37(2)
Bubble Eyes Declares War
39(1)
I Ain't Yo Earthmama (2)
40(1)
Kamau Daaood
Poet
41(1)
For Paul Robeson
42(2)
Balm of Gilead
44(2)
D-Knowledge (Derrick I. M. Gilbert)
Butt...Or The Gluteus Maximus Addictus Poem
46(2)
Henna
48(3)
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Stretchin' Out
51(2)
Big Foot Music (1975)
53(3)
Mari Evans
Liberation Blues
56(2)
Urban Dawn
58(1)
If There Be Sorrow
59(1)
I Am A Black Woman
60(1)
Stacey Lyn Evans
Deaf Jammin'
61(2)
How Do I Know
63(1)
Requiem for Tupac Amaru Shakur
64(1)
Real soul food
65(1)
Ruth Forman
Venus' Quilt
66(2)
The Journey
68(3)
Peter J. Harris
A Sense of Ceremony
71(4)
Only Wine
75(1)
Angela Jackson
Kinsmen: An Address
76(2)
The Resolution
78(1)
Moment
79(1)
Festival
80(1)
June Jordan
Poem Against the Temptations of Ambivalence
81(1)
Poem of Commitment
82(3)
1998 Mid-Day Philadelphia Haiku
85(1)
Carolyn Cooley Joyner
They Do Not Have To Nest In Your Hair
86(1)
Mother
87(1)
Agape
88(1)
Color Of Her
89(1)
Sonia
90(1)
Quraysh Ali Lansana
give and go
91(2)
window
93(1)
the night before tomorrow
94(1)
crutch
95(1)
Toni Asante Lightfoot
Haiku World Tour 1994
96(1)
In Oklahoma
97(1)
Cornucopia Breaks Her Silence
98(1)
The Wilted Gardenia
99(1)
Moses Came Down
100(1)
Haki Madhubuti
Books as Answer
101(2)
Too Many of our Young are Dying
103(1)
Poetry
104(2)
Mannafest
Tupac came to me in a dream
106(2)
saviouress
108(1)
after life drum part 1
109(1)
We meet each other to discover God
110(1)
And i lost myself
110(1)
Laini Mataka
Forgiveness Will Come, But, Not Today
111(2)
Karma
113(1)
The Period
114(1)
A Warning to Eros
115(1)
Tony Medina
Harlem to Havana
116(1)
sometime in the summer there's october
117(4)
E. Ethelbert Miller
tomorrow
121(1)
Roy Campanella: January, 1958
122(1)
A House in Provincetown
123(1)
Another love affair / another poem
124(1)
Slave Narratives
125(1)
Jessica Care Moore
Mirrors
126(1)
October
127(2)
Omari's magic star fish
129(2)
Tracie Morris
Beat Poet
131(3)
Hardrock
134(1)
Prelude to a Kiss
135(1)
Abiodun Oyewole
Tags and Labels
136(2)
Black
138(1)
The Tree of Life
139(1)
Our Time
140(1)
Eugene B. Redmond
Her Black Body in Light
141(1)
Ina Peabody, Sister Friend
142(2)
Parapoetics
144(2)
DJ Renegade
Landscape
146(1)
150 Bonifay St. / Apt. 716 / PGH. PA 15210
147(1)
Can I Ask You A Question
148(2)
Tribute
150(1)
Kate Rushin
On the Eastern Shore
151(2)
A Pacifist Becomes Militant and Declares War
153(3)
Kalamu ya Salaam
No Ordinary Waterfall
156(1)
There's no big accomplishment in acting white
157(3)
Snapshot: dawn in dar es salaam
160(1)
Sonia Sanchez
Poem for Some Women
161(4)
This Is Not a Small Voice
165(1)
Ntozake Shange
advice
166(2)
an invitation to my friends
168(2)
on becomin successful
170(1)
Glenis Redmond Sherer
If I Ain't African
171(3)
How do you get yours?
174(2)
Nichole L. Shields
Happenings
176(1)
Sweet But Sassy
177(1)
MADD
178(1)
Momma in Red
179(1)
The Crack of Dawn
180(1)
Askia M. Toure
Snow White: A Rejoinder
181(2)
To Adam Smith: A Rejoinder
183(1)
Furies: 1992
184(1)
Nubian Dawn: A Goddess Smiles
185(1)
Quincy Troupe
A Response to All You ``Angry White Males''
186(3)
Poem for My Father
189(2)
wadud
Hardcore
191(3)
3003
194(2)
Afaa Michael Weaver
The poets
196(2)
Mama's Hoodlum
198(2)
The Incomplete Heart
200(3)
Afterword 360° is just a beginning! 203

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