2017.
First edition.
Essays, poetry, and art included in this anthology celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.
Book
9781940430867
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Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday
Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens
Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years
Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015
Lansana, Quraysh Ali editor.
Jackson-Opoku, Sandra, editor.
Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Marita Golden -- Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jodi Joanclair ; Georgia A. Popoff ; Angela Jackson ; Jeanne Towns ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Diane Glancy ; Rita Dove ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Aries Hines ; Avery R. Young ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Kalisha Buckhanon ; Jessica Care Moore.
Qiana Towns ; L.D. Barnes ; Malaika Favorite ; Jaki Shelton Green ; CM Burroughs ; Keith Wilson ; Mike Puican ; Keith Wilson ; Randall Horton ; Crystal Simone Smith ; David Bublitz ; Jericho Brown ; Randall Horton ; Wayne-Daniel Berard ; David Bublitz ; Adrienne Christian ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Keith Wilson ; Dasha Kelly ; David Bublitz ; Elise Paschen ; Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Jodi Joanclair ; John C. Mannone -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Calvin Forbes ; Monique Hayes ; Tony Medina ; Adrian Matejka ; Judy Dozier ; Calvin Forbes ; Avery R. Young ; Tony Lindsay ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; David Bublitz ; Rohan Preston ; Mel Goldberg ; Jericho Brown ; Avery R. Young ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Reggie Scott Young ; Calvin Forbes ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Jacqueline Johnson.
Sam Hamill ; Regina Taylor ; Tara Betts ; Khari B. ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Devorah Major ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Kevin Coval ; Nile Lansana ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Kevin Stein ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Deshaunte Walker ; Kevin Stein ; John C. Mannone ; Jodi Joanclair ; Tony Medina ; Esteban Colon ; Kwabena Foli ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Sharan Strange ; Malaika Favorite ; Sheree Renée Thomas ; Jaki Shelton Green -- Keith Wilson ; Marilyn Nelson ; Devorah Major ; Shahari Moore ; Reggie Scott Young ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Keith Wilson ; Patricia Smith ; Bettina Marie Walker ; Adrian Matejka ; Kevin Coval ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Zoe Lynn Nyman ; Rohan Preston ; Reggie Scott Young ; Qiana Towns ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Cortney Lamar Charleston ; Rohan Preston ; Adrian Matejka ; Rita Dove ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Lenard D. Moore ; Monica Hand ; Monica Hand ; John Wilkinson ; Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Rita Dove ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Clifford Thompson ; Randall Horton ; Sharon Olds ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Sandra Cisneros ; Manuel Muñoz ; Damaris Hill ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Lansana/Brooks ; Lansana/Brooks -- Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Khari B. ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Rose Blouin ; David Bublitz ; Adjoa Jackson Burrowes ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Adrienne Christian ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Judy Dozier ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Calvin Forbes ; Diane Glancy ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Monica Hand ; Damaris Hill ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Jodi Joanclair ; Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Roy Lewis ; Tony Lindsay ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Devorah Major ; Adrian Matejka ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Lenard D. Moore ; Joyce Owens ; Elise Paschen ; Mike Puican ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Kevin Stein ; Regina Taylor ; Jeanne Towns ; Qiana Towns ; Keith Wilson ; Avery R. Young ; Reggie Scott Young -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Kathleen E. Bethel.
edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku.
2017
Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
[2019]
Scholar and host Elisa New travels the country, joining up with distinguished poets, celebrities, and everyday Americans to create a fully immers
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Poetry in America. Season 1 [DVD]
Poetry in America (Television program). Season 1.
Poetry in America. Season 1: explore and debate 12 unforgettable American poems
Poetry in America. Season one
Poetry in America. First season
Poetry in America. 1st season
I cannot dance opon my toes.
Fast break.
Those winter Sundays.
Hymmnn and hum bom!
Skyscraper.
Harlem.
Musée des Beaux Arts.
Shirt.
To prisoners.
Gray heron.
N.Y. state of mind.
New colossus.
I cannot dance opon my toes, by Emily Dickinson -- Fast break, by Edward Hirsch -- Those winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden -- Hymmnn and hum bom!, by Allen Ginsberg -- Skyscraper, by Carl Sandburg -- Harlem, by Langston Hughes -- Musée des Beaux Arts, by W.H. Auden -- Shirt, by Robert Pinsky -- To prisoners, by Gwendolyn Brooks -- The gray heron, by Galway Kinnell -- N.Y. state of mind, by Nas -- The new colossus, by Emma Lazarus.
New, Elisa, screenwriter, television director, host.
Reis-Dennis, Leah, television producer.
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), presenter.
Verse Video Education (Firm), production company.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.
PBS Distribution (Firm), film distributor.
WGBH ; a production of Verse Video Education ; written and directed by Elisa New ; producer, Leah Reis-Dennis.
2019
Poetry in America. Season 1 [DVD]
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