Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks

Synopsis

Essays, Poetry, And Art Included In This Anthology Celebrate The One-hundredth Birthday Of The Late Poet And Cultural Icon Gwendolyn Brooks. Introduction: Of Memory And Revision / Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-opoku -- Foreword / Marita Golden -- Part I. Child-free / Joan Wiese Johannes ; Barbed Wire / Jodi Joanclair ; I, Too, Am The Mother / Georgia A. Popoff ; The Unmother / Angela Jackson ; Dialogue Between Two Women At The Clinic / Jeanne Towns ; Motherhood / Emily Hooper Lansana ; First Journey / Diane Glancy ; Daystar / Rita Dove ; My Mother's Clothes / Chirskira Caillouet ; Washer Woman / Kimberly A. Collins ; Tax Deadline / Akua Lezli Hope ; Fixing Face / Akua Lezli Hope ; [untitled] / Kimberly Dixon-mays ; Milk Bath / Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Part 2. Horse And Carriage On The Plaza / Natasha Ria El-scari ; A Slip Into History / Crystal Simone Smith ; My Face / Aries Hines ; Blk(s) / Avery R. Young ; The Night After You Have Been Fired From Your Job / Natasha Ria El-scari ; A Burning Lesson / Kimberly A. Collins ; She Was My First / Kalisha Buckhanon ; Poem For Gwendolyn Brooks On Her Centennial Birthday / Jessica Care Moore -- Part 3. Sister Flossie's Jam / Qiana Towns ; Recipe / L.d. Barnes ; Radio / Malaika Favorite ; For The Lover Who Eats My Poems... / Jaki Shelton Green ; To Be In Love / Cm Burroughs ; To Be / Keith Wilson ; Knife In The Wall / Mike Puican ; Chalk / Keith Wilson ; When Your Silence Will Not Save You / Randall Horton ; Fine Art School / Crystal Simone Smith ; Combatives / David Bublitz ; Stay / Jericho Brown ; Abracadabra / Randall Horton ; Psalm 23 At 15 / Wayne-daniel Berard ; Visitation One / David Bublitz ; Dog In A Dead Man's House / Adrienne Christian ; Babes / Mary Catherine Loving ; On Spring / Keith Wilson ; Bitter Winter / Dasha Kelly ; Suicide One / David Bublitz ; Lovely Love / Elise Paschen ; Sweet Stalk / Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Genetic Codes / Jodi Joanclair ; The Samaritan Woman / John C. Mannone -- Part 4. Look Behind / Sandra Jackson-opoku ; Deuce And A Quarter / Calvin Forbes ; Convenience / Monique Hayes ; Anacostia Suite / Tony Medina ; Sold To The Man With The Mouth / Adrian Matejka ; Kenny's Friend / Judy Dozier ; Run Johnny Run / Calvin Forbes ; Foun(d) Poem / Avery R. Young ; Silly Stories / Tony Lindsay ; Dying Of Laughter / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Sleep Smoking / David Bublitz ; Five Belly Buttons / Rohan Preston ; Yaakov's Jackets / Mel Goldberg ; The Hammers / Jericho Brown ; Mama Gwendolyn Kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus On De Forehead / Avery R. Young ; Civility / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Tribal Differences / Reggie Scott Young ; Players Online Dating Service / Calvin Forbes ; Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes To Heaven / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Looking For Venture Smith / Jacqueline Johnson ; Sonnet For Gordon Parks / Carolyn Joyner ; Oriki For John Oliver Killens / Jacqueline Johnson -- Part 5. Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Sam Hamill ; Quatrain For Emmett Till/trayvon Martin/michael Brown/laquan Mcdonald / Regina Taylor ; Many Sons, Many Mothers / Tara Betts ; A Depraved Indifference 2 Human Life / Khari B. ; The Short Answer / Roger Bonair-agard ; A Neighborhood Boy / Devorah Major ; Rite Of Passag / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; We Real / Kevin Coval ; Roots / Nile Lansana ; News Item : Police Seek African-american Man / Mary Catherine Loving ; History Of Static / Kevin Stein ; East Texas Blues / Mary Catherine Loving ; Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / Mary Catherine Loving ; We Real / Roger Bonair-agard ; Www2015 / Deshaunte Walker ; The Tragedies / Kevin Stein ; Skin / John C. Mannone ; Keloid Cells / Jodi Joanclair ; Landscape With Chalk-marked Silhouette / Tony Medina ; Everyday Horrors / Esteban Colon ; When Racism Dies / Kwabena Foli ; Overheard At Tea, Near Kensington And Deveers, London / Mary Catherine Loving ; A Feast Of Whispers / Jaki Shelton Green ; In Praise Of Wisdom / Sharan Strange ; Halloween / Malaika Favorite ; Who Needs The Stars If The Full Moon Loves You? / Sheree Renée Thomas ; Prayer For Jordan / Jaki Shelton Green -- Part 6. The Corner / Keith Wilson ; A Deaf Old Lady / Marilyn Nelson ; Street Woman / Devorah Major ; Black Woman In Russia / Shahari Moore ; Artwork Gallery ; Recollections / Reggie Scott Young ; Urban Couple / Opal Palmer Adisa ; The Tenant / Keith Wilson ; Meanwhile, A Lawndale Girl Burns Cornbread / Patricia Smith ; R. Taylor's Project Girl / Bettina Marie Walker ; Final Frontier / Adrian Matejka ; Gwendolyn Brooks Stands In The Mecca / Kevin Coval ; The Last Supper / Tina Jenkins Bell ; Second Ave. Ceiling / Zoe Lynn Nyman ; Steel Canary / Rohan Preston ; Crime In Bluesville / Reggie Scott Young ; Eating In The After Life / Qiana Towns ; Hotel Hades / Sandra Jackson-opoku ; Lincoln Cemetery / Cortney Lamar Charleston ; The Blinking Apple / Rohan Preston ; & Later / Adrian Matejka ; Geometry / Rita Dove ; Cedar / Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Fun In The Backyard / Lenard D. Moore ; Day 4, Somewhere Between Athens And Serifos, Greece / Monica Hand ; June 9, Serifos, Greece / Monica Hand ; Blackbirding / John Wilkinson ; Seven Years / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Part 7. Testifying / Rita Dove ; Language Of The Unheard / Opal Palmer Adisa ; Jazz June / Clifford Thompson ; To The Recorder Of History / Randall Horton ; A Note On Gwendolyn Brooks / Sharon Olds ; Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Letter To Gwendolyn Brooks / Sandra Cisneros ; Nobody Knows My Name / Manuel Muñoz ; A Haiku For Gwendolyn Brooks / Damaris Hill ; Journaling With Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : A Pastiche Of Poetic Reports On Her Life & Works / Eugene B. Redmond ; The Weight Of The Word / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Baggage / Lansana/brooks ; Smolder / Lansana/brooks -- Part 8. Artist Statements. Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Khari B. ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Rose Blouin ; Anecdote / David Bublitz ; Adjoa Jackson Burrowes ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Adrienne Christian ; Kimberly Dixon-mays ; Judy Dozier ; Natasha Ria El-scari ; Calvin Forbes ; Diane Glancy ; Reflections : Experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Jaki Shelton Green ; Monica Hand ; Reflection / Damaris Hill ; Gwendolyn Brooks Reminiscence / Akua Lezli Hope ; Being Born Into Brooks / Sandra Jackson-opoku ; Jodi Joanclair ; Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Description Of Portrait Of Gwendolyn Brooks / Roy Lewis ; My Gwendolyn Brooks Experience / Tony Lindsay ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Devorah Major ; Remembrance / Adrian Matejka ; Finding My Own Sunset And Thoughts On Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Lenard D. Moore ; Joyce Owens ; Elise Paschen ; My First Contact With Gwendolyn Brook / Mike Puican ; A Slice Of Prose For Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet / Eugene B. Redmond ; Crystal Simone Smith ; To Make A Thing Sing And Mean : Reflections On Gwendolyn Brooks / Kevin Stein ; Regina Taylor ; Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / Jeanne Towns ; Qiana Towns ; Keith Wilson ; Avery R. Young ; A Bluesviile Tribute For Gwendolyn Brooks / Reggie Scott Young -- Brooks Biography. We Remember Sunday : Portrait Of The Artist As An Ancestor / Sandra Jackson-opoku -- Brooks Bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : A Selected Bibliography 1979-2015 / Kathleen E. Bethel. Edited By Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-opoku. Includes Bibliographical References.