The heritage series of Black poetry, 1962-1975: a research compendium

ESSAYS

The Heritage Series: An Introduction / Lauri Ramey

"The Time of the Whirlwind and the Fire": Dudley Randall, the Heritage Series and the Broadside Press Connection

Whose Images?: Waring Cuney and the Harlem Renaissance Idea of the Poet's Work / Lorenzo Thomas

Bardic Memory and Witness in Poetry of Samuel Allen / Edward A. Scott

Russell Atkins: "Heretofore" / Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Clarence Major and Mark Twain Abroad / Linda Selzer

Spiritual Witness in the Poetry of Dolores Kendrick / Joanne V. Gabbin

Audre Lorde: The Voice of Multiple Consciousness / Margaret Kissam Morris

Ray Durem: Take No Prisoners / Lauri Ramey

Owen Vincent Dodson: Faith and Sorrow; Sorrow and Faith / Inga R. Ivory

Calvin C. Hernton: Portrait of a Poet / Lauri Ramey.

MEMOIRS AND INTERVIEWS

The Heritage Series: A Memoir (excerpts) / Paul Breman

Paul Breman's Heritage Series of Black Poetry / Clarence Major

Poetry and the Heritage Series / Sonia Sanchez

Reflections on the Heritage Series / Dolores Kendrick

Heritage and Black Poetry in the 1970s / Amon Saba Saakana

Paul Breman and Black Poetry / Samuel Allen

Ebele Oseye as Poet / Earl McKenzie

The Responsibility and Power of Art / Ellease Southerland

'bout me, 'bout you, 'bout us (excerpts) / Ron Fair

The Comic Vision of Robert Hayden: A Brief Remembrance / Fred M. Fetrow

Memories of My Father, Ray Durem / Vida Boyd Durem

W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in the Netherlands / Marc Breman.

STATEMENTS ON POETRY AND POETICS

Statement / Ray Durem

Statement / Calvin C. Hernton

Statement / Audre G. Lorde

Statement / Conrad Kent Rivers

Statement / James W. Thompson

Introduction: The Wright Poems by Conrad Kent Rivers / Ron Fair

On Negritude / Lloyd Addison

First Editorial as Editor of The New African (excerpt) / Mukhtarr Mustapha.

POEMS

This Because: A Countless Accounting / Lloyd Addison

There Are No Tears; The Lingering Doubt / Samuel Allen

To Be Whole Again / Nkemka Asika

At Night Keep Still; Ventilating Day at the Mall Down by the Lake; Threnodic Phantasies for Example / Russell Atkins

variations for di prima / Harold Carrington

Lil and Joe; Long Gone; My Prayer; Nineteen-twenty-nine; Picture; Carry Me Back / Waring Cuney

About Maurice; To Maurice; A Dun; Pedagogy; Blues, Blues; Married Woman; Compensation; Caution; Pretty Ann; A Decoration for the President

Pausing / Ron Fair

The Red Crab Gang 3; The Red Crab Gang 15; Ohio Listening / Calvin C. Hernton

Keep On / Frank John (Nkemka Asika)

The Daily Grind / Fenton Johnson

Intermezzo: My Mother Listens to Cavalleria Rusticana; The Cleaning Woman: Hattie Elder; Sisters Before the Rain (for Mary Frances Dagostino) / Dolores Kendrick

Martha / Audre G. Lorde

My Corner; Patience; Night Driving and Daydreaming; Wednesday or Saturday; Three / Clarence Major

The Job / Willard Moore

Statement; Ants; Violet Crows; 5/ 6/ 4/ 3/ 4 / Mukhtarr Mustapha

Meru; Night in Nigeria; Process; One of these Mornings / Ellease Southerland

Black All Day / Raymond Patterson

The Profile on the Pillow / Dudley Randall

Night Letter from Paris / Conrad Kent Rivers

An Image of You / Amon Saba Saakana.