St. Stephen : a passion play / Janus Adams --
For "Mamie" / Fayola Kamaria Ama --
There is no title : only echoes ; The promise ; Story for the remainder / Johari M. Amini --
The reunion / Maya Angelou --
Madame Bai and the taking of Stone Mountain / Toni Cade Bambara --
Soweto song ; Haiti ; I wanna make freedom ; Sortin-out / Amina Baraka --
Pretending ; Martha ; The dancer / Brenda Connor-Bey --
Primer for blacks ; To those of my sisters who kept their naturals ; Requiem before revival / Gwendolyn Brooks --
For her ; My dream about being white ; Morning mirror / Lucille Clifton --
Rape ; There it is ; You know ; Big fine woman from Ruleville ; For the brave young students in Soweto / Jayne Cortez --
French doors : a vignette ; The woman who lives in the botanical gardens / Alexis De Veaux --
The welcome / Y.W. Easton --
I am a black woman ; Where have you gone ; Speak the truth to the people ; Early in the mornin / Mari Evans --
Prince Harlem / Lois Elaine Griffith --
Fragments : mousetrap ; Definition ; The takers / Nikki Grimes --
Skillet blond / Vértàmàè Smart-Gròsvènòr --
Portrait of a woman artist ; Harlem/Soweto ; Letter to my father
a solidarity long overdue /
Lament ; August ; I. / Akua Lezli Hope --
Reports ; A using ; Solution #9 / Mariah Britton Howard --
Paraphernalia for a suicide : a revelation of life / Lateifa-Ramona Lahleet Hyman --
Loomit ; Friday the 13th candlelight march / Adrienne Ingrum --
Murderous intent with a deadly weapon ; Dialogue ; Struggle of class / Rashidah Ismaili --
For the count ; A poem for all the mens in the world ; On learning ; My last feeling this way poem / Mae Jackson --
Ensinanc̦a / Gayl Jones --
Sweet Otis suite / Anasa Jordan --
On the real world : meditation #1 ; Blue ribbons for the baby girl ; A last dialog on the left ; Poem towards a final solution / June Jordan --
I am the weaver ; On being high ; In the middle ; A name change / Abbey Lincoln (Aminata Moseka) --
Need : a chorale of black women's voices / Audre Lorde --
Enough ; It's all in the name ; Running to gone ; For us ; Tokens for "t" / Esther Louise --
Barbados / Paule Marshall --
Lament ; Tree women quest for sun / Malkia M'buzi --
A love poem to an African freedom fighter ; Untitled ; New chapters for our history / Rosemari Mealy --
A man called Jethro / Louise Meriwether --
Recitatif / Toni Morrison --
Sugarman ; When I rite ; Inflation / Margaret Porter --
Transcendental blues ; The lady and the tramp / Aishah Rahman --
from Being my own woman / Faith Ringgold --
Mannessahs ; Touch : translation poem 4 ; Touch : poem 5 ; Aunt Dolly ; Folk ; Wimmin / Carolyn M. Rodgers --
Waiting for her man too long / Sandra Rogers --
A poem for Sterling Brown ; Just don't never give up on love ; Old words ; Present ; Kwa mama zetu waliotuzaa / Sonia Sanchez --
Minority ; Equal opportunity ; Linseed oil and dreams / Judy Dothard Simmons --
The fabulous world of Toni Morrison : tar baby / Eleanor W. Traylor --
I said to poetry ; Family of ; Each one, pull one ; I'm really very fond ; Representing the universe / Alice Walker --
My truth and my flame ; This is my century
black synthesis of time ;
Fanfare, coda, and finale / Margaret Walker --
The envelope / Michele Wallace --
Asylum ; For our life is a matter of faith ; I am not my sister's keeper : I am my sister / Regina Williams --
from "The iconography of childhood" ; You were never Miss Brown to me ; A record for my friends ; This city-light ; The wishon line / Sherley Anne Williams --
Refugee mother ; Our children are our children / Geraldine L. Wilson --
Birds of paradise ; Long road rhythm ; What we know / Nzadi Zimele-Keita (Michelle McMichael).