# africanamericanliterature.net ## African - [Reading Black | African American Literature](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/) - [Random Notes | African American Literature](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/) - [Reading Index | African American Literature](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-index/) - [Article Overview | African American Literature](https://africanamericanliterature.net/article-overview/) ## /info - [An introduction to africanamericanliterature.net](https://africanamericanliterature.net/info/an-introduction-to-africanamericanliteraturenet/): New to this homepage? Read An introduction to africanamericanliterature.net on how to use this page and what you can expect to find, and something about the editor and how to contact him. - [Contact](https://africanamericanliterature.net/info/contact/) ## Random Notes | African American Literature - [Gloria Oden Between Worlds: The Tie That Binds, Homage, and other poems](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/gloria-oden-between-worlds-the-tie-that-binds-homage-and-other-poems/) - [Japan, Jazz, and North Carolina; or, The geography of Lenard D. Moore's poetry](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/japan-jazz-and-north-carolina-or-the-geography-of-lenard-d-moores-poetry/) - ["What Beauty We Now Have" ... ; or, Taking a look at the late Carolyn Marie Rodgers and her Eden Press poetry](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/what-beauty-we-now-have-or-taking-a-look-at-the-late-carolyn-marie-rodgers-and-her-eden-press-poetry/) - ["We Can't Breathe" ... ; or, Remembering Ronald Fair](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/we-cant-breathe-or-remembering-ronald-fair/) - [Much Ado About a Name; or, Revisiting Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-education of the Negro](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/much-ado-about-a-name-or-revisiting-carter-g-woodsons-the-mis-education-of-the-negro/) - [Liberation Narratives: Nicole Mitchell and Her Black Earth Ensemble Brings Haki Madhubuti and His Poetry Back Again on CD](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/liberation-narratives-nicole-mitchell-and-her-black-earth-ensemble-brings-haki-madhubuti-and-his-poetry-back-again-on-cd/) - [Effie Lee Newsome's Nature Poetry for Children Revisited](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/effie-lee-newsomes-nature-poetry-for-children-revisited/) - [When Melvin Van Peebles Read His Obituary; or, The passing of a pioneer](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/when-melvin-van-peebles-read-his-obituary-or-the-passing-of-a-pioneer/) - [African American Poetry Beyond English; or, The Example of Sybil Kein](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/african-american-poetry-beyond-english-or-the-example-of-sybil-kein/) - [New National Book Award Winner Walter Mosley's America, 2008 - and 2021](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/new-national-book-award-winner-walter-mosleys-america-2008-and-2021/) - [Hope and History; or, The inaugural poetics of Amanda Gorman](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/hope-and-history-or-the-inaugural-poetics-of-amanda-gorman/) - [William H. Johnson in Kerteminde: A New Donation to Danish Museum](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/william-h-johnson-in-kerteminde-a-new-donation-to-danish-museum/) - [In a Minor Chord: Waters Edward Turpin's "These Low Grounds" Reissued](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/in-a-minor-chord-waters-edward-turpins-these-low-grounds-reissued/) - [Yusef Komunyakaa 'Down Under'; or, Rereading February in Sydney](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/yusef-komunyakaa-down-under-or-rereading-february-in-sydney/): February in Sydney (Matchbooks, 1969), a small (and it is small, 10,7cm x 13,7 cm) but important chapbook of 14 poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-), is a testimony to this major African American poet’s deep interest in jazz, Australia, and Australian Aboriginal culture. - [The White Card; or, Claudia Rankine's American conversations on race and citizenship](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/the-white-card-or-claudia-rankines-american-conversations-on-race-and-citizenship/) - [Vincent O. Carter's The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind - An exchange](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/vincent-o-carters-the-bern-book-a-record-of-a-voyage-of-the-mind-an-exchange/) - [A Feel-Good Film; or, Hidden figures revealed](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/a-feel-good-film-or-hidden-figures-revealed/) - [Rita Dove's Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry; or, Opening up the canon](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/rita-doves-anthology-of-20th-century-american-poetry-or-opening-up-the-canon/) - [Quincy Troupe on Twenty-Twenty Vision; or, Tiger Woods as 'The Comeback Kid'](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/quincy-troupe-on-twenty-twenty-vision-or-tiger-woods-as-the-comeback-kid/): Watching him receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom after what some commentators called ‘the greatest comeback in sport’, 43-year old Tiger Woods winning his fifth Masters at Augusta, Georgia – and his 15th championship – , I am reminded of poet Quincy Troupe’s poem The Shot, a poem in tribute to the great golfer after his winning his last Masters in 2005 – 14 years ago. All this after years of personal as well as professional problems, including several back surgeries. - [Ishmael Reed as 'Haute Couture'](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/ishmael-reed-as-haute-couture/) - [Country Place: Ann Petry's 'White' Novel Reissued; or, Flipping the script](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/country-place-ann-petrys-white-novel-reissued-or-flipping-the-script/): I have been considering myself a serious reader – reader, not critic or scholar – of African American literature for the last fifty years, let us say since buying Abraham Chapman’s Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature (Mentor Books) in 1968 for $ 1.50! Black Voices included Ann Petry’s 1947 novella In Darkness and Confusion, a fictionalized account of the Harlem riot of 1943, thus becoming my introduction to Ann Petry’s world – or worlds – of fiction. - [Dudley Randall and Broadside Press: 'Overlooked No More' by The New York Times](https://africanamericanliterature.net/random-notes/dudley-randall-and-broadside-press-overlooked-no-more-by-the-new-york-times/) ## Reading Black | African American Literature - [Everett Hoagland: The Music: New and Selected Poems, 1973-2023 (Willow Books, 2023)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/everett-hoagland-the-music-new-and-selected-poems-1973-2023-willow-books-2023/) - [Cedrick May: The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon: Poems and Essays (The University of Tennessee Press, 2017 - paperback 2024)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/cedrick-may-the-collected-works-of-jupiter-hammon-poems-and-essays-the-university-of-tennessee-press-2017-paperback-2024/) - [Cynthia Davis, Verner D. Mitchell: Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney (Texas Tech University Press, 2024)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/cynthia-davis-verner-d-mitchell-images-in-the-river-the-life-and-work-of-waring-cuney-texas-tech-university-press-2024/) - [Stephen C. Wicks, editor: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door (Knoxville Museum of Art, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/stephen-c-wicks-editor-beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-through-the-unusual-door-knoxville-museum-of-art-2020/) - [Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey, Jr., editors: The Black Chicago Renaissance (University of Illinois Press, 2012)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/darlene-clark-hine-and-john-mccluskey-jr-editors-the-black-chicago-renaissance-university-of-illinois-press-2012/) - [Kalamu ya Salaam, editor: I Am New Orleans: 36 poets revisit Marcus Christian's definitive poem (Runagate/University of New Orleans Press, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kalamu-ya-salaam-editor-i-am-new-orleans-36-poets-revisit-marcus-christians-definitive-poem-runagateuniversity-of-new-orleans-press-2020/) - [Harryette Mullen: The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Essays and Interviews (The University of Alabama Press, 2012)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/harryette-mullen-the-cracks-between-what-we-are-and-what-we-are-supposed-to-be-essays-and-interviews-the-university-of-alabama-press-2012/) - [Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (Basic Civita Books, PB 2010)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/henry-louis-gates-jr-the-trials-of-phillis-wheatley-basic-civita-books-pb-2010/): A meditation on Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) and her importance to her own time and ours, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. America’s First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers is an extended essay based on literary historian and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s 2002 Jefferson Lecture at the Library of Congress, first published in hardcover 2003. - [Thomas Sayers Ellis: Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf Press, 2010)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/thomas-sayers-ellis-skin-inc-identity-repair-poems-graywolf-press-2010/) - [The Photographs of Gordon Parks (The Library of Congress, 2011)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/the-photographs-of-gordon-parks-the-library-of-congress-2011/): A meditation on Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) and her importance to her own time and ours, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. America’s First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers is an extended essay based on literary historian and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s 2002 Jefferson Lecture at the Library of Congress, first published in hardcover 2003. - [Jeffreen M. Hayes, editor: Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman (Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, GILES, 2018)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/jeffreen-m-hayes-editor-augusta-savage-renaissance-woman-cummer-museum-of-art-and-gardens-giles-2018/) - [Cheryl Clarke: By My Precise Haircut (The Word Works, 2016)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/cheryl-clarke-by-my-precise-haircut-the-word-works-2016/): Among the several subjects touched upon in Cheryl Clarke’s slim volume (about 60 pages of poetry) are: poets, jazz-musicians, athletes and other public figures (like Allen Ginsburg, Nelson Mandela, baseball legend Jackie Robinson, Marvin Gaye, jazz singer Ruth Brown (“Inventress of the hoochie coochie … Making white mothers wanna keep their sons at home, white fathers wanna treat their daughters mean.”), singer Marian Anderson, the Amiri/Amina Baraka family, Billie Holiday); same-sex love, HIV/AIDS, slavery, race riots (Detroit 1943), McCarthy-era politics, JFK’s assassination, police brutality/violence, the CIA 1971 coup d’etat in Chile, Hurricane Katrina 2005 and Haiti 2010, Sandy Hook, Iraq/Afghanistan, and family and personal poems. - [James A. Emanuel: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Lotus Press, 1991)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/james-a-emanuel-whole-grain-collected-poems-1958-1989-lotus-press-1991/) - [Matthew Teutsch, editor: Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (University Press of Mississippi, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/matthew-teutsch-editor-rediscovering-frank-yerby-critical-essays-university-press-of-mississippi-2020/) - [Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 (HC 2003, Harper Perennial Modern Classics PB 2007)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/nikki-giovanni-the-collected-poetry-of-nikki-giovanni-1968-1998-hc-2003-harper-perennial-modern-classics-pb-2007/) - [Camille T. Dungy, editor: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/camille-t-dungy-editor-black-nature-four-centuries-of-african-american-nature-poetry-university-of-georgia-press-2009/) - [Keorapetse Kgositsile: Homesoil in My Blood: A Trilogy (Xarra Books, 2017)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/keorapetse-kgositsile-homesoil-in-my-blood-a-trilogy-xarra-books-2017/) - [Angela Jackson: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Beacon Press, 2017)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/angela-jackson-a-surprised-queenhood-in-the-new-black-sun-the-life-and-legacy-of-gwendolyn-brooks-beacon-press-2017/) - [Veronica T. Watson, editor: The Short Stories of Frank Yerby (University Press of Mississippi, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/veronica-t-watson-editor-the-short-stories-of-frank-yerby-university-press-of-mississippi-2020/) - [Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting (David Zwirner Books, 2019)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kerry-james-marshall-history-of-painting-david-zwirner-books-2019/) - [Horace A. Porter, editor: Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work (University Of Iowa Press, 2015)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/horace-a-porter-editor-dreaming-out-loud-african-american-novelists-at-work-university-of-iowa-press-2015/) - [devorah major: and then we became (City Lights Books, 2016), where river meets ocean (City Lights Foundation, 2003)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/devorah-major-and-then-we-became-city-lights-books-2016-where-river-meets-ocean-city-lights-foundation-2003/) - [The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major (University Press of Mississippi, 2019)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/the-paintings-and-drawings-of-clarence-major-university-press-of-mississippi-2019/) - [Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough, editors: World'd Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kevin-prufer-and-robert-e-mcdonough-editors-worldd-too-much-the-selected-poetry-of-russell-atkins-cleveland-state-university-poetry-center-2019/) - [Lynn Nottage: Sweat (Theatre Communications Group, 2017)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/lynn-nottage-sweat-theatre-communications-group-2017/): Sweat, a play about the devastating effects of de-industrialization on a group of steel workers in the small town of Reading, Pennsylvania, won Lynn Nottage (1964-) a second Pulitzer Price (the first was for Ruined, 2009, on the abuse of women in a Congo torn by civil war), putting her in the company of other multiple prize-winning playwrights like Eugene O’Neill (4), Edward Albee (3), Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson (all 2-times winners)*. - [Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell, editors: Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights Books, 2019)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/neeli-cherkovski-raymond-foye-and-tate-swindell-editors-collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-city-lights-books-2019/) - [Ava DuVernay: Origin (ARRAY Films, 2023)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/ava-duvernay-origin-array-films-2023/) - [Margaret Walker: For My People (Yale University Press, 2019 - originally published 1942)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/margaret-walker-for-my-people-yale-university-press-2019-originally-published-1942/): When poet and editor Rita Dove chose to select one poem only by Margaret Walker (1915-1998) for her Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011), she picked For My People. Did she have a choice? For even as Margaret Walker has written a number of significant poems, the majestic and rousing For My People, the title poem of her first book of poetry, has over the years remained her signature poem. - [Anna Deavere Smith: Notes from the Field (Anchor Books, 2019 - HBO film, 2018)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/anna-deavere-smith-notes-from-the-field-anchor-books-2019-hbo-film-2018/) - [Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (Library of America, 2023 - originally published by Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/ronald-l-fair-many-thousand-gone-an-american-fable-library-of-america-2023-originally-published-by-harcourt-brace-world-1965/) - [Margaret D. Bauer, editor: North Carolina Literary Review, Number 28, 2019: Featuring North Carolina African American Literature (University of North Carolina Press)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/margaret-d-bauer-editor-north-carolina-literary-review-number-28-2019-featuring-north-carolina-african-american-literature-university-of-north-carolina-press/) - [Lenard D. Moore: Long Rain (Wet Cement Press, 2021)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/lenard-d-moore-long-rain-wet-cement-press-2021/) - [Sonja D. Williams: Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (University of Illinois Press, 2015)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/sonja-d-williams-word-warrior-richard-durham-radio-and-freedom-university-of-illinois-press-2015/): Radio script writer and ’word warrior’ Richard Durham (1917-1984) was a product of the Illinois Writers Project radio unit – part of the Works Progress Administration of president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal – meeting regularly between 1939 and 1943 to discuss the future of radio as a medium for social change and honing their skills as scriptwriters, according to author, oral historian, and famous Chicago radio broadcaster Louis ‘Studs’ Terkel (1912-2008). - [James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway, editors: Conversations with Paule Marshall (University Press of Mississippi, PB 2019- first published in HC 2010)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/james-c-hall-and-heather-hathaway-editors-conversations-with-paule-marshall-university-press-of-mississippi-pb-2019-first-published-in-hc-2010/) - [Mona Lisa Saloy: Black Creole Chronicles (University of New Orleans Press, 2023)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/mona-lisa-saloy-black-creole-chronicles-university-of-new-orleans-press-2023/) - [Kalamu ya Salaam: Precise Tenderness: 100 Haiku (Third World Press, 2023)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kalamu-ya-salaam-precise-tenderness-100-haiku-third-world-press-2023/) - [Steven C. Tracy, editor: Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance (University of Illinois Press, 2011)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/steven-c-tracy-editor-writers-of-the-black-chicago-renaissance-university-of-illinois-press-2011/) - [Carter G. Woodson: The Mis-education of the Negro (Penguin Classics, 2023 - originally published 1933 by Associated Publishers)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/carter-g-woodson-the-mis-education-of-the-negro-penguin-classics-2023-originally-published-1933-by-associated-publishers/) - [Julius E. Thompson: Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 (McFarland & Company, 1999)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/julius-e-thompson-dudley-randall-broadside-press-and-the-black-arts-movement-in-detroit-1960-1995-mcfarland-company-1999/): Between 1965 and 1995 two independent black-run presses in Detroit, Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press and Naomi Long Madgett’s Lotus Press, and Chicago’s Third World Press run by Haki R. Madhubuti (then Don L. Lee), became the leading U.S. publishers of African American poetry of the Black Arts Movement of the sixties and beyond, publishing hundreds of black poets in the form of broadsides (single sheet poems), poetry pamphlets, posters, tapes, and anthologies – inexpensive formats matching the resources, economic and otherwise, of both publishers and intended buyers. - [Ruth Fine, editor: Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis (University of California Press, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/ruth-fine-editor-procession-the-art-of-norman-lewis-university-of-california-press-and-the-pennsylvania-academy-of-the-fine-arts-2015/) - [Carole Boston Weatherford: Birmingham, 1963 (Wordsong PB 2023 - originally HC 2007)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/carole-boston-weatherford-birmingham-1963-wordsong-pb-2023-originally-hc-2007/) - [Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle (Anchor Books/ Penguin Random House 2021)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/colson-whitehead-harlem-shuffle-anchor-books-penguin-random-house-2021/) - [Alice Childress: Trouble in Mind (Theatre Communications Group, 2022)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/alice-childress-trouble-in-mind-theatre-communications-group-2022/) - [E. Ethelbert Miller: How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask (City Point Press, 2022)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/e-ethelbert-miller-how-i-found-love-behind-the-catchers-mask-city-point-press-2022/) - [John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C. Tracy, editors: After Winther: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Oxford University Press, 2009)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/john-edgar-tidwell-steven-c-tracy-editors-after-winther-the-art-and-life-of-sterling-a-brown-oxford-university-press-2009/): After Winter is an homage to the art and life of Sterling A. Brown as teacher (40 years alone at Howard University in Washington, D.C.), poet, folklorist, literary critic, cultural historian, blues scholar, jazz enthusiast, comic wit, fierce polemicist, raconteur, a truly major voice in African American literature in especially the first half of the Twentieth Century. - [Kalamu ya Salaam: Cosmic Deputy: poetry and context 1968-2019 (University of New Orleans Press/Runagate Press, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kalamu-ya-salaam-cosmic-deputy-poetry-and-context-1968-2019-university-of-new-orleans-pressrunagate-press-2020/) - [Gene Andrew Jarrett and Thomas Lewis Morgan, editors: The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio University Press, 2005)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/gene-andrew-jarrett-and-thomas-lewis-morgan-editors-the-complete-stories-of-paul-laurence-dunbar-ohio-university-press-2005/) - [Haki R. Madhubuti: Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected (Third World Press, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/haki-r-madhubuti-taught-by-women-poems-as-resistance-language-new-and-selected-third-world-press-2020/) - [Charles Johnson, editor: Anthology of Black American Literature (Chicago Quarterly Review, Volume 33, 2021)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/charles-johnson-editor-anthology-of-black-american-literature-chicago-quarterly-review-volume-33-2021/) - [Carmen L. Phelps: Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2013)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/carmen-l-phelps-visionary-women-writers-of-chicagos-black-arts-movement-university-press-of-mississippi-2013/) - [Claude McKay: Romance in Marseille (Edited and introduced by Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell, Penguin Classics, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/claude-mckay-romance-in-marseille-edited-and-introduced-by-gary-edward-holcomb-and-william-j-maxwell-penguin-classics-2020/) - [William Gardner Smith: The Stone Face (New York Review of Books Classics, 2021 - originally published by Farrar, Straus, 1963)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/william-gardner-smith-the-stone-face-new-york-review-of-books-classics-2021-originally-published-by-farrar-straus-1963/) - [Vincent O. Carter: The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/vincent-o-carter-the-bern-book-a-record-of-a-voyage-of-the-mind-dalkey-archive-press-2020/) - [Barack Obama: A Promised Land (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/barack-obama-a-promised-land-crownpenguin-random-house-2020/) - [Naomi Long Madgett: You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems (Wayne State University Press, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/naomi-long-madgett-you-are-my-joy-and-pain-love-poems-wayne-state-university-press-2020/) - [John Zheng, editor: Conversations with Sterling Plumpp (University Press of Mississippi, PB 2019, originally published i HC 2016)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/john-zheng-editor-conversations-with-sterling-plumpp-university-press-of-mississippi-pb-2019-originally-published-i-hc-2016/) - [Kevin Young, editor: African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (LOA/Library of America, 2020)](https://africanamericanliterature.net/reading-black/kevin-young-editor-african-american-poetry-250-years-of-struggle-and-song-loalibrary-of-america-2020/)