Bum rush the page : a Def Poetry Jam / edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Medina, Tony.

Rivera, Louis Reyes, 1945-2012.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Oral interpretation of poetry--Competitions.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Poetry--Competitions.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 282 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Three Rivers Press, [2001]

Summary:

Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry. " Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to jam- not slam. This is our mouth on paper, our hearts on our sleeves, our refusal to shut up and swallow our silence. These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But most of all, they tell it like it is." - Tony Medina, from the Introduction

Contents:

We Have Been Believers / Margaret Walker xxv

A Poet Is Not a Juke Box / Dudley Randall xxvi

Nommo / Zizwe Ngafua xxvii

No Jive / Raymond R. Patterson xxviii

failure of an invention / Safiya Henderson-Holmes xxviii

Building / Gwendolyn Brooks xxix

The Disdirected / Louis Reyes Rivera xxxi

Blood I Say, Study Our Story, Sing This Song

The Way We Move / Tony Medina 1

... And the Saga Continues / Ted Wilson 1

Bad Times / Lenard D. Moore 3

How to Do / Cornelius Eady 4

Like a Dog / Cheryl Boyce Taylor 6

Lonely Women / Kysha N. Brown 7

On the Other Side / Benin Williams 9

N / Kiini Ibura Salaam 10

Her Scream Has Been Stolen / Samiya A. Bashir 11

Crater Face / Denise Duhamel 12

susu / R. Erica Doyle 13

An Asian Am Anthem / Thien-bao Thuc Phi 14

Scout / Wendell Ricketts 16

This Old Man / Jackie Sheeler 17

Afternoon Train / Afaa M. Weaver 19

Beginning at the End: Capital/Capitol Punishment / Rich Bartee 20

Open Your Mouth

and Smile

A Chinese Man in Smyma / Sharon Olinka 22

450 Years of Selective Memory (Smile) / Ken McManus 23

the n-word / Evie Shockley 24

an open letter to the entertainment industry / Beau Sia 25

Metropolitan Metaphysics / James Flint 28

America Eats Its Young / Jemeni 29

laughin at cha / Kenneth Carroll 31

Rosa's Beauty / Jane Alberdeston-Coralin 32

Overworked / Lucy Partlow 33

Nintendo / Treasure Williams 34

Stealth-Pirates of Cyberia / Blair Ewing 35

The Death of Poetry / Bob Holman 35

Last Visit to Chestnut Middle School / Jaime Shaggy Flores 37

Learning to Drive at 32 / Allison Joseph 38

Mr. BOOM BOOM Man / Michele Serros 39

Road to the Presidency / Oneca Hitchman-Britton 40

For What It's Worth / Benjamin Theolonius Sanders 41

Every Word Must Conjure

It's Called Kings / Susana Cabanas 44

Billy / Oktavi Allison 45

To Become Unconscious / Ebony Page 46

Letter to an Unconceived Son / Tyehimba Jess 46

The Usual Suspects / Reginald Harris 48

Blooming Death ... Blossoms / Andre O. Hoilette 49

What the Oracle Said / Shara McCallum 51

The U.S.A. Court of No Appeal / George Edward Tait 52

on the state-sanctioned murder of shaka sankofa / Suheir Hammad 52

An Epistle to the Revolutionary Bible / Andrea Roberts 53

Warrior Womb / Lenina Nadal 55

Cowboynomics / Jose Angel Figueroa 56

Demockery / Ngoma 57

Executive Privilege / Danny Shot 58

georgia avenue, washington d.c. / Brian Gilmore 62

A Palace of Mourners / Patrick Sylvain 64

Palestine / Marvin X 65

The Road from Khartoum / Sheree Renee Thomas 66

A Modern Love Poem / Candice Nicole Love 68

In Praise of the Seattle Coalition / Eliot Katz 69

Blood Is the Argument / Gary Johnston 69

Drums Drown Out the Sorrow

Amadou Diallo from Guinea to the Bronx Dead on Arrival / Carlos Raul Dufflar 73

Another Scream / Malkia M'Buzi Moore 74

A Well-Bred Woman / Mervyn Taylor 76

Amadou / James E. Cherry 78

BLS / G. E. Patterson 78

after diana died / Asha Bandele 79

Dudley Randall (1914-2000) / Ahmos Zu-Bolton II 80

Hoodoo Whisper / Adrian Castro 81

Sammy Davis, Jr. / Jacqueline Jones LaMon 82

Glad All Over / Patricia Spears Jones 84

Dancing after Sanchez / Staci Lightburn 85

The 13th Letter / Jolivette Anderson 86

In Black Churches / Lamont B. Steptoe 86

For Gwendolyn Brooks / Quraysh Ali Lansana 87

tonal embryology / folade mondisa speaks 88

Zizwe / Tanya Tyler 88

All, Bomaye / Hayes Davis 89

Phyllis / Jacqueline Johnson 90

Timbalero / Julia Maier 91

Puente / Americo Casiano, Jr. 93

Somalia / Nancy Mercado 93

epitaph for Etheridge Knight / Melba Joyce Boyd 94

Farewell Queen Mother Moore / John Watusi Branch 97

Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores / Comrade Askia M. Toure 98

When the Definition of Madness Is Love

January Hangover / Pedro Pietri 100

the hardest part about love / Imani Tolliver 100

Lies We Tell Ourselves / Marj Hahne 102

8 ways of looking at pussy / Letta Neely 103

Temporary Insanity / Tanai Sanders 105

alone in belize / Shonda Buchanan 106

footprints / Esther Louise 107

Big World Look Out / Jeneanne Collins 108

Bullet Hole Man: A Love Poem / Nancy D. Tolson 110

Dreadlocks / Tara Betts 111

Roots / Arthur Ade Amaker 111

Six Minutes Writing / Kadija Sesay 112

Diner / RoByn Baron 112

Fullness / Latasha Natasha Diggs 113

Wet Dream / Carlos Omar Gardinet 115

foursomes / Marvin K. White 115

Wishing You / C. D. Grant 116

Shunning an Imperative / Carl Hancock Rux 116

January 8, 1996 / Kimmika L. H. Williams 118

A Poem for You / Paul Laraque 119

Throbs for the Instructress / Pedro Lopez-Adorno 120

At the Frenchman's / Kendra Hamilton 121

Mata Hari Blues or Why I Will Never Be a Spy / Jewell M. Handy 123

Yellah / Lisa Pegram 124

Extremes Ain't My Thing As Salaam Alaikum / Tufara Waller Muhammad 125

13 / Jennifer Murphy 126

rock candy / A. Wanjiku H. Reynolds 127

Love Jam / Everett Hoagland 129

Cocaine Mad-Scream Article #33 LoveSong / Gylan Kain 130

We Whose Fathers Are Hidden

The Elders Are Gods / Tijan M. Sallah 132

What the Dead Do / Jackie Graves 133

creation is a cycle / Empress 133

Birth / Kelly Elaine Navies 134

Daughter-to-Father Talk / Kamilah Aisha Moon 136

Tattooing the Motherline / Krista Franklin 137

Our Fathers / Ta'Lease Niche Cleveland 138

Mama's Magic / Glenis Redmond 139

Father's Day / Aarian Pope 140

Momma in Red / Nichole L. Shields 140

Wildlife / Karen Williams 141

Chicago on the Day Brother Increases His Chances of Reaching Age 21 / Taiyon J. Coleman 142

Lest We Forget / Patricia A. Holt Abner 143

The African Burial Ground Called Tribeca / David Henderson 143

fatherless townships / Abiyah 144

Waiting for the Results of a Pregnancy Test / Maria Mazziotti Gillan 146

Sitting in the Doctor's Office the Next Day / Laura Boss 148

Circa / Tom Mitchelson 148

Seed of Resistance

Cooking / Ayin Adams 151

Ben Hur / Joe E. Weil 151

in 5th grade / Valerie Caesar 152

Complected / Teri Ellen Cross 154

Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa 155

My Name's Not Rodriguez / Luis J. Rodriguez 156

Water from the Well / Duriel E. Harris 157

The Tragic Mulatto Is Neither / Michael C. Ladd 158

Beauty Is Moving Us Forward

I'm Sayin Though / Marco Villalobos 160

beauty rituals 2000 / Nwenna Kai 160

Medusa / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 161

Stariette / Chioma Okereke 161

exceptions / Felice Belle 163

What the deal, son? / Kevin Powell 166

Plain Ole Brother Blues / Jarvis Q. DeBerry 168

Why I Be a Goddess / Rha Goddess 169

I'm the Man / Lindamichellebaron 170

Dare to Be Different / Venus Harris 171

Thoughts from a Bar Stool / Deirdre May 173

A Blue Black Pearl / Clairesa Clay 173

runnin / Jamila Z. Wade 175

conversations in the struggle / Pamela Plummer 176

Harvest: A Line Drawing / Gregory Pardlo 177

joseph speaks to gericault in the studio / Michael Datcher 178

Entrancielo / Edwin Torres 181

New York Seizures / Eugene B. Redmond 182

Hey Yo / Yo Soy! / Jesus Papoleto Melendez 185

Flying over America / Kalamu ya Salaam 188

It Was the Music That Made Us

I'm a Hip Hop Cheerleader / Jessica Care Moore 190

kill the dj / Reg E. Gaines 192

Ms. Cousins' Rap / Linda Cousins 193

all up in there / Derrin Maxwell 194

Doin' / Atiba Kwabena 195

The Trash Talker / Howard Rambsy II 196

Owed to Eminem / June Jordan 197

A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop / Thomas Sayers Ellis 200

rapid transit / Nzadi Z.

Keita 201

hold it steady / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 202

Conversation with Duke Ellington and Louis (Pops) Armstrong / Carmen D. Lucca 203

For Lady and Prez / Theodore A. Harris 204

breath / Daniel Gray-Kontar 205

The Flow / Lynne d Johnson 206

Bebop Trumpet / Layding Lumumba Kaliba 208

conjugation of the verb: to blow / Fredrica Africa Payne 208

The Creed of a Graffiti Writer / Steven Bonafide Rojas 210

Sonido Ink(quieto) / Brenda Cardenas, Aide Rodriguez 214

because I am it's a race thing trip / Chong Xiong 215

Grasshopper / Danielle Legros Georges 217

Grace / Umar Bin Hassan 219

The Low End / Tomas Riley 219

rep/resent / Douglas Kearney 221

2G (Another Millennium Poem) / C. Leigh McInnis 223

enter(f*#@ckin)tained / Nzinga Regtuinah Chavis 223

Children of the Word

Motherseed / Sandra Maria Esteves 226

Wake Up, My Little Pretties / Liza Jessie Peterson 227

nommo: how we come to speak / Devorah Major 227

spaNglisH / Lissette Norman 229

New Boogaloo / Willie Perdomo 229

Mi Negrito / Anasuya Isaacs 232

News of the World / Meena Alexander 233

Much of Your Poetry Is Beautiful / Brenda Walcott 234

Ginsberg / Thomas C. Howell IV 234

In Bed with James Tate / Regie Cabico 235

soulgroovin ditty #7 / Hannah Howard 236

Sundays / Seitu J. Hart 237

To Aretha Franklin from Sparkle / Amina Baraka 238

Lumumba Blues / Raymond R. Patterson 239

All the shoes are shined and the cotton is picked / Sharrif Simmons 240

In this day age / Bruce George 241

The Trouble I've Seen / Fred Hampton, Jr. 241

Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage / Wanda Coleman 242

Bensonhurst / Jack Wiler 243

For Michael Griffith, Murdered Dec. 21, 1986, Howard Beach, NY / Jeffrey Renard Allen 244

Lift Every Fist and Swing / Rohan B Preston 245

TV Dinner / Michael Warr 245

Bluesman / Charlie Braxton 248

We're Not Well Here / Abiodun Oyewole 250

Nickel Wine and Deep Kisses / Patricia Smith 251

The Coward / Kate Rushin 253

Strip / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 254

Sex / Yona Harvey 255

enemies / Tish Benson 256

American Poetry / Ras Baraka 257

So Many Books, So Little Time / Haki R. Madhubuti 260

How to Be a Street Poet / John Rodriguez 261

The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash / DJ Renegade 263

X / Amiri Baraka 264

The Tradition / Assata Shakur 265

There It Is / Jayne Cortez 267.

ISBN:

0609808400

OCLC:

46857662