All the songs we sing : celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective / Carolina African American Writers' Collective ; edited by Lenard D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Lenard D., 1958- editor, writer of introduction.

Carolina African American Writers' Collective.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carolina African American Writers' Collective.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Carolina African American Writers' Collective--Literary collections.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary collections.

Poetry.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 207 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[Durham, North Carolina] : Blair, [2020]

Contents:

Poetry

Pray p. 7 / Oktavi Allison

When I Consider the Open Casket p. 8 / Kim Arrington

Haiku-brown girls, hiking trail p. 9 / Valeria Bullock

An Unrelenting Meal p. 10

Artichoke Pickle Passion: A Sonnet p. 11 / Beverly Fields Burnette

Donny Hathaway p. 12 / Christian Campbell

Portrait of pink, or blush p. 13 / Adrienne Christian

The Moment at Hand p. 14

Golden Whistles for Emmett Till p. 15

Woman-Child p. 16

Brown Fedora p. 17

Haiku-sliver of moonlight, rose-laying, springtime farewell, navy blue hearse, wild onions p. 18 / L. Teresa Church

Things My Father Taught Me p. 19

Dear-, p. 20 / DéLana R.A. Dameron

Black Barbie p. 21

Black Lotus p. 22

The Grill Master p. 23 / Celeste Doaks

What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison p. 24

7 Problems in Pedagogy p. 31 / Camille T. Dungy

That Feeling I Get p. 32

Rise p. 34 / Cynthia M. Gary

The Pictograph Selfie p. 35

A Link Between Worlds p. 36 / Ashley Harris

Annuals and Perennials p. 38 / Janice W. Hodges

All Children Are Our Children p. 40 / Janice W. Hodges (The Call) and Afefe Lana Tyehimba (Response)

Love Poem p. 44

Barrage p. 45 / Janice W. Hodges

Sons of the dark p. 46 / Brian H. Jackson

Ghazali p. 48 / Chantal James

First Breath p. 49

Out of This World p. 51

My Best Days p. 52 / Valjeanne Jeffers

In a Place Where p. 53

Somebody's Child p. 55

In My Father's House p. 58 / Patricia A. Johnson

Father Sound p. 60

Seven Ways of Looking at Black Flowers p. 62

Gullah p. 64 / Fred Joiner

Because of Emmett Till p. 66

When I Thought of Racism p. 67 / Diane Judge

Poet: code's story p. 68

Iset, god and mother p. 69

Persephone (call me perse) p. 71 / Raina J. León

Sweetness p. 72

Pollination: Outskirts of Raleigh, NC, 1968 p. 74

Haiku-in Dorian's wake, carved wooden horses, tidal pools on the beach, a single deer, near the ruins p. 76 / Sheila Smith McKoy

Interrogation of Harriet Tubman p. 77

A Reminiscing Daddy p. 79

Bop: Coaching Poets p. 80

Haiku Sequence p. 81 / Lenard D. Moore

Haiku-the dark rock-road p. 82

Mai Bahamian Haiku p. 83 / Maiisha L. Moore

Color Like This p. 84

Deeper Than Skin p. 85

Walking Sepia p. 86 / Grace Ocasio

The ballad of anita hill p. 87

Ballad of bertie county p. 89 / Evie Shockley

Vitals p. 93

Greyhound p. 94

Whole Fish p. 95

Post-Surgery Strength p. 96

Life Alert p. 97

Haiku-spring break, slave museum, plantation tour p. 98 / Crystal Simone Smith

Brother Haints p. 99

North Star Blues p. 100

Rattle Grass at Fort Fisher p. 102 / Darrell SCIPOET Stover

Black Light: To MLK, Jr. p. 103

Sojourner: Daughter of Eden p. 104

Elementary Days p. 105 / Gina M. Streaty

Your David, My Saul p. 107

Tact p. 108

A Few Years In p. 110 / Cedric Tillman

Ashe (So Be It) p. 111

The Dowry p. 117

Legacy of Somebody's Baby (Beaten and Suspended from a Tree) p. 119 / Afefe Lana Tyehimba

Tired Enough to Fill a River of Sleep p. 120

Blackbirds Listen p. 121 / Karen Wade

Driving Lesson p. 122

New Spring p. 123

Morning Rises p. 124 / Jacqueline D. Washington

The Archeologist: Excavating the Long Green p. 125

The Question of Doctor Isaac Copper p. 127

Isaac Copper I: Why I Am Called Doctor or Minister p. 128 / Carole Boston Weatherford

I Am Black & Comely p. 129

You Da Only Man I Loves, Daddy: Lot's Daughters p. 130 / L. Lamar Wilson

Haiku-the smell of tomato plants, pale ferns, early frost, water from the sky p. 132 / Gideon Young

Fiction

Sophia (excerpt from Salt in the Sugar Bowl) p. 135 / Angela Belcher-Epps

When the Stars Begin to Fall p. 143 / Tracie M. Fellers

A History of Wanting (excerpt from Fes Is a Mirror) p. 149 / Chantal James

On the Border p. 153 / Mélina Mangal

Sanctuary p. 157 / Sheila Smith McKoy

Tuck Hughes p. 163 / Gina M. Streaty

Nonfiction

From Dirt p. 171 / Camille T. Dungy

Perennials p. 175 / Angela Belcher Epps

The World Loses Its Former Shape: Caught in the Undertow of Grief p. 178 / Chantal James

Scents and Sensibility: The Loss of Smell Brings an Unexpected Gift p. 183 / Bridgette A. Lacy

An Onslow County Tradition p. 186 / Lenard D. Moore

A Literary Mission Accomplished: Twenty-Five Years of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective p. 188 / L. Teresa Church

Afterword. "Report from Part Three": The Legacy of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective p. 191 / Dr. Lauri Scheyer [Ramey], scholar and author of A History of African American Poetry (2019).

Notes:

Foreword by Jaki Shelton Green and introduction by Lenard D. Moore.

ISBN:

9781949467338

1949467333

OCLC:

1164805504