Taught by women : poems as resistance language : new and selected / Haki R. Madhubuti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, [2020]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: POETRY MATTERS AND MORE

Why Women?

For the Consideration of Poets

Art II: Reviewing A Life, A Calling

Liberation Narratives

Taraka Burke & the *MeTooMovement

Poetry

Art IV

Gwendolyn Brooks

Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks at 70

Gwendolyn Brooks (1968)

An Afterword: For Gwen Brooks

A Mother's Poem

Mothers

This Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks At Eighty

Gwendolyn Brooks: America in the Wintertime

Gwendolyn Brooks: No Final Words

LANGUAGE KEEPERS

First World Cheikh Anta Diop

Books As Answer / Willalyn Fox

So Many Books, So Little Time Independent Book Sellers and librarians: Nichelle Hayes

Keeping Papers Alive / Michael Fluge

Libraries, Librarians: The Careful Equalizers / Mary Dempsey

LANGUAGE CREATORS

Toni / Toni Morrison

Bones / Lucille Clifton

Black Earth / Margaret Walker Alexander

Courage / Betty Shabazz

Remembering Betty Shabazz / Susan L. Taylor

Etta / Delmarie Cobb

Earthquakes / Frances Cress Welsing

Master of Colors And Canvas / Margaret Burroughs

Art III Sonia Sanchez: Drawing Fire / Sonia Sanchez

Magnificent Tomorrows / Janet Sankey

The Sea In Your Language / Sandra Gibbs

Mama Ann Forever / Ann Ward

Wonderment and Figs / Ruby Dee

YELLOWBACK

Maxine and Jimmy Lee

Maxine

Helen Maxine

Helen Maxine: Two

Helen Maxine: Three

Helen Maxine: The Last Conversation

Making Transitions

For Helene Maxine Graves Lee

HEARTLOVE

Maintaining Loveships

A Bonding / Khephra Burns

Quiet Mountains to Your Elegance / Charles

Contemplating Full Orchards / Bakari

Breathing The Breath of the Other Dark Rooted: The Joining / Ron Rochon

Marilyn and David

The Union of Two Ife and Jake

Answers: This Magic Moment / Chester

Turning Toward Joy / Rashid

Woman Black: Why These Poems / Safisha Madhubuti

LovePoems

Safisha

Womenblack: We Begin With You

Rain Forest young lovers

The Answer / Akili

Cultural Daughter / Calvin

Parting Lovers, A Closing with Renewing Possibilities

YES: BLACK WOMEN

Yes

Black Women Have Been Our Answer, No Matter the Questions / Diane D. Turner

Why Shani? Baraka Family

Love Gets Too Much Credit

Until It Finds You Alone Much of the Time

Laini Laini Madhubuti

For Manama: Spelman Commencement / Johnetta B. Cole

Mariama and Birth / Aminata

Sun McLaurin Richards Our Daughter on Loan / Keyanizelpah Moyo

Layla Anaya

Gabby: All Around Gold / Gabby Douglas

Birth In a Time of Hostilities

Major Facts of Life

Poet: What Ever / Don L. Lee

Happened to Luther HeartWork For Teachers of Poetry

Claiming Language, Claiming Art V / Joanne V. Gabbin

COMPLICATED MELODIES

Why She Loves Him

Risk Everything

Tee One in a Complex World

Recession Proof Sex / Maxine Graves Lee

Maturity / Diane Nash

Black Girl Learning

The Petty Shell Game

Some of the Women are Brave Women of SNCC

WinterMan

Struggle

Big Momma Big Mamas, Grandmamas and Nanas

Future

Blackwoman

Women With Meaning

WONDERMENT: LEAVING LARGE VOICES

Rape: The Male Crime

Abortion

Is Truth Liberating / Bell Hooks

Maya: We Honor Our Own

In Our Tradition

My Brothers

The Damage We Do

Violence Against Women national organization for women

Message to Our Sons

A Poem for Quincy Jones and Too Many Others

Justice as The Purest Motivation / Janet D. Bell

The Last First / Michelle Obama

The Secret of His Success / Michelle Obama

More Powerful than God?

The NRA and

Its Supporter's Mantra / David Kato

Fundamental Creation Native Country in the Person of One / Susan Gordon

For R. Kelly

In A Time of Devastation and Reflection / Edwidge Danticat

Robert Bly: For the Years of His / Ruth Bly

Poetic Wisdom and Art Picture Reparations: The United States' Debt Owed to Black People / For our children

Always Remember Where You Are / Zora Neale Hurston

Art: A Comment / Babatunde Graves

Journey Confirmed / Lynn Rochon

Perfect Builder, Quiet Hurricane / Beverly Lomax

He Never Saw the Bullets Coming / Fred Hampton

Consumed by the Idea of a Liberated People / Anderson Thompson

Expectations High: LeBron / Savannah James

Builds I Promise School While Talking & Dribbling Grandfathers: They Speak Through Me / Paul Robeson

#WeCantBreathe: The Misrule of the True Enemy of the State: Forty-Five / C.T. Vivian

Art Gwendolyn Brooks

All Children are Precious / Barbara A. Sizemore

ADDENDUM

On Becoming Anti-Rapists (1993)

Lucille Clifton: Warm Water, Greased Legs, and Dangerous Poetry (1984)

Sonia Sanchez: The Bringer of Memories (1984)

Bambara: What She Meant to Us/Me / Toni Cade Bambara

Remembering Maya Angelou / Maya Angelou

Ntozake Shange: Never Wrong-Eyed (2019) / Ntozake Shange.

ISBN:

9780883783580

0883783584

OCLC:

913335231