May
• May 29: Anthologies featuring African American Poetry, 1968 - 2013
• May 29: A Notebook on Anthologies
• May 28: Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Kevin Young, and their playful poetry
• May 28: A Notebook on the work of Langston Hughes
• May 28: Links to Langston Hughes's Madam Alberta K. Johnson poems
• May 24: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 1854 - 2013
• May 24: 25 poems widely anthologized poems
• May 24: Poems about slavery or "liberation" poems: Framing Black Poetry
• May 22: How to read poetry like a RapGenius
• May 22: A notebook on other ways of reading African American poetry
• May 22: Notes on popular writings concerning African American poetry
• May 22: Kevin Young in The New Times in 2012
• May 22: How to read poetry like a RapGenius
• May 20: From RapGenius to Cultural Historian to Marketing Analyzer?
• May 18: 50 Poems about Slavery, Struggles for Freedom
• May 15: Some obversations concerning recent "debates" about African American poetry
• May 13: From "Black" to "African American" Poetry Anthologies
• May 12: The Rise of Rita Dove and Elizabeth Alexander during the late 1980s
• May 12: A Notebook on Rita Dove
• May 12: A Notebook on persona poems
• May 11: The pace of publishing: Another reason black poetry focuses on history
• May 9: From OHHLA to RapGenius
• May 3: 49 years ago, Amiri Baraka reviewed a grab bag of works for Poetry magazine
• May 2: Blogging about Poetry in April 2013
• May 1: Coltrane vs. Thelonious Monk in the sounds of Amiri Baraka
April
• April 29: Talking African American poetry at the University Oregon
• April 29: Evie Shockley and the Music
• April 24: Lessons covering poems with high school students
• April 22: Adrian Matejka's, Ralph Ellison's, and Quentin Tarantino's Battle Royals
• April 21: Photos from the reading hosted by Treasure Redmond
• April 21: Adrian Matejka reading from his Jack Johnson book in St. Louis
• April 21: The poet as organizer: Treasure Redmond
• April 21: Monica Hand reads in St. Louis
• April 21: Treasure Redmond hosts poetry reading in St. Louis
• April 20: The value of "our" history for African American collegiate poetry readers
• April 19: A Notebook on Frank X. Walker
• April 19: Other Bad Men: Frank X. Walker's Byron De La Beckwith poems
• April 19: Frank X. Walker's books
• April 15: RapGenius and Digital Humanities at CLA
• April 15: The Poet as 21st Century Bookseller: A note on Frank X. Walker
• April 14: The hues of Hughes, the dynamism of D.A.S.H.
• April 9: Could some black poets benefit from Illuminati accusations?
• April 6: Blogging about Poetry in March 2013
• April 5: Becoming a Verified Artist on RapGenius
• April 4: Vince Manuel on the RapGenius Experience: An Interview
• April 3: Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes & RapGenius
• April 2: Cornelius Eady's, Tyehimba Jess's & Adrian Matejka's Bad Men
March
• March 31: One way blogging has shifted my engagements with poetry
• March 31: How Alondra Nelson & Don Share helped transform an occasional poetry blogger into an active one
• March 17: Books by Allison Joseph & Tony Medina converse together about dads
• March 17: Volumes of poetry in conversation with one another
• March 14: African American poetry since 1976 (a timeline)
• March 14: Kevin Young's book publications
• March 14: 30 volumes of poetry leading to The Big Smoke
• March 9: ARCs: Works by Kevin Young, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka
• March 7: Favored black poets don't have to be "the best"
• March 7: A Notebook on Tyehimba Jess
• March 6: College students have little exposure to African American poetry
• March 5: Poetry Journalism
• March 3: Blogging about Poetry in February 2013
• March 3: From Rita Dove to Kevin Young to Lucille Clifton
• March 2: Collected & selected works by African American poets
February
• February 23: Poets by the numbers
• February 21: Poetry, history, and the trouble with creativity
• February 19: Poetry magazine, the Poetry Foundation site & the future
• February 17: Anthologies featuring African American Poetry, 2000 - 2012
• February 15: A Timeline of achievements by black women poets, 2000 - 2012
• February 13: Visual Chronicle #23
• February 12: Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination, and Crime Poetry
• February 10: Poets as Political Activists during the Q & A
• February 6: Visual Chronicle #22
• February 5: Evie Shockley's digital book: our first & futuristic volume of poetry
• February 4: Toward a future history of contemporary African American Poetry, 2000 - 2012
• February 3: The future digital histories of poetry commentary
• February 3: Blogging about Poetry in January 2013
• February 2: The paces of poetry, spoken word, and rap
January
• January 30: Kevin Young's Extraordinary Body of Work
• January 30: Visual Chronicle
• January 29: Amiri Baraka and the "controversial" tag
• January 28: Reading poetry after hearing Malcolm
• January 27: Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and the popularity of poets
• January 26: Coverage of 'the death of poetry'
• January 26: Ignoring black poetry and black readers
• January 25: A Notebook on Jayne Cortez
• January 25: Jayne Cortez, Jazz Poetry, and the Black Arts Movement
• January 23: The Rap Listening Sessions (The Golden age of Hip Hop)
• January 23: Rap as zombie poetry
• January 22: Poetry Lists
• January 21: Coverage of Richard Blanco's poem at Obama's Second Inauguration
• January 21: Blogging about Poetry in December 2012
• January 20: Poetry projects: Digital Humanities or Afrofuturism?
• January 19: The absence of some widely known poets on Twitter
• January 17: African American poetry vs. short stories
• January 15: Who else purchases volumes of poetry?
• January 12: Beyond Poetry: Amiri Baraka and Kevin Young
• January 10: Kevin Young's presence in the New York Times in 2012
• January 9: Jayne Cortez, black poet obituaries, and the New York Times
• January 8: African American poets and The New York Times
• January 1: Django Unchained & Robert Hayden's "Runagate Runagate"
2012
December
• December 31: The year in African American poetry, 2012
• December 31: Jayne Cortez, Black Arts Poetry, Jazz, and Intellectual Traditions
• December 31: 12 Memorable Blog Entries on Poetry from 2012
• December 30: Tony Bolden, Aldon Nielsen and Jayne Cortez
• December 30: Aldon Nielsen, Jayne Cortez, and my classroom poetry canon
• December 30: Jayne Cortez at SIUE in 2005
• December 29: The intellectual histories of black poetry
• December 28: Photographing volumes of poetry, 2012
• December 21: Black World, Poetry magazine & the Chicago poetry scene
• December 20: Poets by birth year
• December 18: The Demographics of African American Poetry
• December 18: Poets and Body Language
• December 17: A Malcolm X project on RapGenius, Pt. 1
• December 17: What if African American poetry enthusiasts were like rap geniuses?
• December 17: Utilizing the Poetry Foundation and RapGenius
• December 17: Reading RapGenius: An Introduction
• December 17: Too much or not enough African American poetry?
• December 17: A Notebook on RapGenius
• December 15: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Aaron McGruder, Colson Whitehead, Kevin Young & Hip Hop Aesthetics
• December 13: When students confuse a poem for a rap
• December 10: What if poets, taking a signal from Jay-Z, "decoded" their works?
• December 7: A Visual Notebook on Engagements with Poetry, Aug - Dec. 2012
• December 6: Blogging about poetry in November 2012
• December 5: Notes on the History of the term "Black Aesthetic"
• December 4: Jeffrey Skoblow Reads Whitman, Ginsberg, and Baraka
• December 3: Photos from EBR 75th Birthday Festival
• December 3: Celebrating Eugene B. Redmond's 75th Birthday
• December 1: 100 Poems read & re-read in 2012
• December 1: The empowering yet fragile nature of spoken word poetry
November
• November 28: When a poet studies game film: Adrian Matejka and Jack Johnson
• November 26: Poetry's Old-timey reputation
• November 25: Imagine a poetry campaign that took African American readers seriously
• November 23: The Profound Intellect of Lucille Clifton
• November 21: A growing distance between poets and readers?
• November 20: From Little Richard to James Brown to Amiri Baraka
• November 19: The promise and problem of relatable poetry
• November 18: What if there was a weekly New Volume of Poetry Day?
• November 17: Kevin Young & ampersands
• November 17: The absent black poetry problem
• November 15: Canonical poets known for poems, contemporary poets known for books
• November 12: Amiri Baraka's Frightening Poetic Recollections
• November 12: Talented student readers in African American poetry courses
• November 9: 25 More EBR Facts
• November 7: 25 EBR Facts
• November 7: Eugene B. Redmond and Prominent Black Poets at SIUE
• November 6: Nikki Giovanni -- The Great Gateway Poet
• November 5: The scary presence of rap in an African American poetry course
• November 4: My work as a Blogger vs. my work as an Author
• November 4: Blogging about Poetry in October 2012
• November 3: What scares black students in a black poetry course
• November 2: What scares white students in a black poetry course
October
• October 31: Margaret Walker and the Ballad of a Scary Black Woman By Cindy Lyles
• October 31: The Fear of Explaining Evie Shockley's Approaches to Design
• October 30: Audre Lorde and the Horrors of Breast Cancer By Christina Gutierrez
• October 30: Margaret Walker’s Uncanny Molly Means By Briana Whiteside
• October 30: Frances E. W. Harper’s Land of the Living Dead By Elizabeth Cali
• October 30: Elizabeth Alexander’s Horror at the Carnival By Emily A. Phillips
• October 30: The Fear of Explaining Evie Shockley's Approaches to Design
• October 28: Haunted by the origins of so much unpublished black poetry
• October 27: Rita Dove and the fear of poems that aren't black enough
• October 26: Once upon a time when black poetry was scary
• October 22: Amiri Baraka's scary wordless phrasings
• October 21: The curse & blessing of "We Real Cool"
• October 20: Fear of language & studies of poetry
• October 17: Letter to the Editor about Gwendolyn Brooks
• October 17: 25 Poems later, who are my students now?
• October 16: William J. Harris's Robot Poem
• October 16: The value of student-run open mics
• October 9: From Gwendolyn Brooks to Chief Keef
• October 7: Poets, not literary critics, are the key judges of contemporary African American poetry
• October 4: Treasure Redmond & the Poet as Connector
• October 4: 25 Poems by Black Women about the City By Cindy Lyles
• October 2: Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Jericho Brown, and the Emory model
• October 1: Blogging about Poetry in September 2012
September
• September 30: Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment
• September 30: The back cover of The Black Woman
• September 30: Early Black American Poets (anthology)
• September 30: Truth Is on Its Way by Nikki Giovanni
• September 30: The back cover of Play Ebony Play Ivory by Henry Dumas
• September 30: Play Ebony Play Ivory by Henry Dumas
• September 29: I am the Darker Brother (anthology)
• September 29: The back cover of Black Fire
• September 29: Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
• September 24: Which black poets appear most frequently in "the best" American Poetry series?
• September 23: Imagining Digital Resources for African American Poetry
• September 22: New Black Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Literature
• September 22: Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature
• September 19: Ebony mag: Table of Contents to Black Revolution special issue
• September 19: You know you're a poetry blogger if....
• September 18: Ebony magazine: The Black Revolution special issue
• September 18: Poetry vs. Poetry vs. Poetry vs. Poetry
• September 17: Broadside Press catalog
• September 16: think black!
• September 15: The Black 70s
• September 14: Does the Skin Color of Black Poets Matter?
• September 14: Back cover photograph featuring LeRoi Jones
• September 13: The Black Poets
• September 12: Dark Symphony
• September 11: Black Magic Poetry, 1961-1967
• September 10: The Black Book
• September 9: The Black Woman edited by Toni Cade
• September 8: Black Spirits poetry anthology
• September 7: Black World featuring Gwendolyn Brooks on the cover (Sept. 1972)
• September 6: Stephen Henderson's Understanding the New Black Poetry
• September 5: Eugene B. Redmond's Drumvoices
• September 4: Negro Digest features Richard Wright on the cover (Jan. 1968)
• September 3: Nikki Giovanni's ego-tripping and other poems for young people
• September 2: A little, far-reaching magazine: Black World
• September 2: The Journal of Black Poetry
• September 1: The Drama Review Special Issue on Black Theatre
• September 1: 30 Days of Black Arts Artifacts
• September 1: Blogging about Poetry in August 2012
August
• August 28: 25 poems by or about black men
• August 27: 25 poems by African American poets for a class
• August 20: Different tonalities, perspectives & views of black women's poetry
• August 17: Bad Men as Muses for Black Poets
• August 16: Anger Management and Black Poetry
• August 15: The Curious Cases of Genealogies, Chronologies: The Norton and Black Arts poetry
• August 13: Why 105 Volumes of Poetry is Small and Large
• August 11: The significance of African American poets being born during the late 1960s & early 1970s
• August 11: Michael Warr's volume The Armageddon of Funk
• August 10: A Poet, His Cameras & More than 100,000 Photographs
• August 9: 20 Anthologies featuring African American Poetry, 2003 - 2011
• August 8: 20 Anthologies featuring African American Poetry, 1992 - 2002
• August 6: Creative communities of poet-scholars & essayist-poets
• August 5: 15 Scholarly Books on African American Poetry
• August 4: James Smethurst's exceptionally thorough Black Arts Work
• August 3: Ishmael Reed's Funny Ex-slave Poem
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry in July 2012
July
• July 31: Richard Wright haiku
• July 31: The Poetry Report: a series
• July 30: "New" African American poets & the Canon
• July 29: 105 African American Volumes of Poetry by Publisher, 2000 - 2012
• July 28: Toward a Sociology of African American Readers & Their Relationships to Poetry
• July 27: Why potential poetry readers need advocates
• July 26: Presidential Politics & African American Poetry
• July 24: Poetry, Slavery & Creativity
• July 23: How 48 Black Writers and Critics Greatly Assisted Toni Morrison
• July 23: 105 volumes of poetry by year, 2000-2012
• July 21: Listening to Amiri Baraka, Reading Vijay Iyer
• July 20: Reading with Their Eyes Closed: Poets & Performance
• July 16: African American poets
• July 13: Black Poetry & the War on Drugs
• July 12: The increased aesthetic appeal of poetry book covers
• July 10: Kevin Young's Big Books & Extraordinary Publishing Career
• July 9: Does the success of a few obscure the plight of many other black poets?
• July 8: Why a history of unpublished poetry & poets is worth considering
• July 6: 25 Poems We've Already Read
• July 5: Funny poets: Amiri Baraka & Kevin Young
• July 3: Lucille Clifton's "wishes for sons" & the trouble male students have saying "gynecologists"
• July 1: Blogging about Poetry in June 2012
June
• June 30: Active African American Poets over 65
• June 30: Richard Wright's 7 haiku per day
• June 29: What we talk about when we talk about poetry in the age of colorblindness, Pt. 1
• June 27: People Watching: Gwendolyn Brooks & Robert Hayden
• June 25: Where you from?: Migration patterns of poets (A Midwest Edition)
• June 23: Where You Stay -- Amiri Baraka & the Matter of Where Poets Live
• June 23: Why Few Contemporary Poets Focus on Contemporary Subjects
• June 20: The Production of "New" Poets
• June 19: What happened with African American poetry from 1977-1987?
• June 18: Poets and Drama
• June 18: Poetry from Prison and The New Jim Crow
• June 18: Toni Morrison essays & Poems from Prison...Every. Single. Day.
• June 15: How poetry by black people became Black Poetry
• June 14: 1970: A defining year in black writing
• June 12: How Young (or Old) were Young Black Artists in 1926?
• June 12: Collected & Selected Works of Black Women Poets
• June 9: Rita Dove & Natasha Trethewey Connections
• June 7: African American Poetry in 2012
• June 1: Blogging about Poetry in May 2012
• June 1: A disconnect between struggling black men and contemporary poetry
May
• May 31: The Coverage of Authors, Books & Special Topics
• May 29: More on the Histories, Shifting Differences among Black Poets
• May 29: Noting Differences between Black Poets, Black Poets & Black Poets
• May 28: Why Poets might not write much about where they currently live
• May 27: A Notebook on the work of C. Liegh McInnis
• May 27: C. Liegh McInnis as a Black Urbanist
• May 26: 8 Poems Situated in Urban Spaces
• May 26: Poets as Black Urbanists
• May 26: The Black Women Formerly Known as Non-Poets
• May 25: Black Poetry & White Money
• May 24: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit in Jackson, TN
• May 23: A Notebook on the Work of Treasure Shields Redmond
• May 22: Geography, Multiple Voices & the Distinct Sound of Treasure Redmond
• May 22: A Southern and Malcolm-like Sound: C. Liegh McInnis & Spoken Word
• May 21: Ever Considered how Underfunded Spoken Word Poetry Is?
• May 21: Geography & Distinct Sounds in Spoken Word Poetry
• May 21: 3 Notable Trends in Contemporary African American Poetry
• May19: Covering Dometi Pongo's Ex-Slave at MIZZOU
• May 17: A Timeline of African American Poetry
• May17: Notes on a Timeline of African American Poetry
• May 16: 10 Moments, 1945 - 1966
• May15: 10 Moments, 1854-1919
• May 14: Notes on Blogging a Chronology of African American Poetry
• May 14 20 Moments, 2002 - 2012
• May 14: 15 Moments, 1993 - 2002
• May 13: 8 Moments, 1959 - 1968
• May 12: 12 Moments, 1976 - 1992
• May 11: 15 Moments, 1918 - 1950
• May 10: 10 Moments, 1965 - 1976
• May 1: Blogging about Poetry in April 2012
April
• April 29: The Transformative Possibilities of Black Poetry
• April 27: Kevin Young, Colson Whitehead & Lovejoy Library
• April 26: Adding the eBook of Evie Shockley's poems to our library collection
• April 21: Styles of Writing and the Popularity of Poets
• April 19: The importance of an active, diverse reception
• April 18: The Advantage of an Extended Publishing Record
• April 18: The Coverage of Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer-Prize Win
• April 17: Institutional support and the popularity of poets
• April 16: Why are some poets more popular than others?
• April 16: What if we view Black Women Poets as Public Intellectuals?
• April 14: Houston Baker, Jerry W. Ward, and the title of my Black Arts book
• April 13: 14 Sonnets by 14 African American poets
• April 11: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibit at Woodland Elementary
• April 8: Trayvon Martin and Persona (Poem) Moments
• April 6: Runner, Writer, Poet, Professor: About Allison Joseph
• April 4: Reading June Jordan's "Poem about My Rights"
• April 3: Amiri Baraka, the Black Arts & post Black Arts Poet
• April 2: Blogging about Poetry in March 2012
March
• March 31: A Subtle Trayvon Martin Reference in Kevin Young's Poem?
• March 28: Kevin Young's Second-Person James Covey Poems
• March 26: Blogging about African American Poetry & The Habit Loop
• March 25: What if Obama's Trayvon Statement was a Poem?
• March 24: Evie Shockley Remixes Poem to Address Trayvon Martin Case
• March 23: Defining Encounters with the Sound of Amiri Baraka's Poetry
• March 22: "When I grow up, I want to write poems."
• March 22: Clipboards, Poetry, and Third Graders
• March 21: The Idea of Escape in 3 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
• March 21: Poems that Tell Stories and those that don't
• March 20: Allison Funk Remixes her Escape Artist Poem
• March 19: Poets as Essayists
• March 18: How the Pace of News & Literary Publishing Affect Poetry
• March 17: Considering Escape Artists
• March 14: Why Evie Shockley's Poems Require Multiple Readings
• March 12: African American Poets and Academic Appointments
• March 10: A Notebook on the work of Elizabeth Alexander
• March 10: Elizabeth Alexander's Books
• March 9: Elizabeth Alexander: At the Crossroads of Poetry & Black Studies
• March 8: Elizabeth Alexander, Twitter Poetics & White Space
• March 7: Elizabeth Alexander's Teeny Tiny Twitter Poems
• March 6: A Notebook on the Work of Adrian Matejka
• March 6: The Trouble with Anthologies & the Series Trend in Poetry
• March 6: Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad: A Versified Rendering of Black History
• March 5: Discovering Elizabeth Alexander's Poetry at Tougaloo Collge
• March 5: Elizabeth Alexander Week
• March 3: The Densely Populated Field of Poetry
• March 2: Blogging about Poetry in February 2012
February
• February 27: A Need for More Poetry on the Web
• February 25: The greatest 10 years in African American literature
• February 24: February 1965: A Defining Moment in the History of Black Poetry
• February 23: Beyond Poetry: The Work of Black Artist-Poets
• February 22: Robert Hayden as a Black Arts (Era) Poet?
• February 20: The Golden Age of Anthologies featuring Black Poetry
• February 20: A Notebook on the Black Arts Era
• February 17: Tyehimba Jess: The Poet as Human iPod
• February 15: Blogging about Black Women Poets [Cindy Lyles]
• February 15: Black Poetry & the Young Dancers
• February 14: Mixed Media Poetry Exhibits
• February 14: Third Graders & African American Poetry
• February 12: Audio Recordings of African American Poets
• February 12: Kevin Young: The Poet as Creativity Machine
• February 11: Militancy in the works of Black Women Poets
• February 11: Black Women, Militancy, and Spoken Word Poetry
• February 10: Elizabeth Alexander's Militant Nature Poem
• February 9: The Militant Appeal of Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping”
• February 8: What Happens to Non-Award-Winning Poets?
• February 8: The Witty Militancy of Carolyn Rodgers's M.F. Poem
• February 7: The Radical Typography of Sonia Sanchez's Coltrane Poem
• February 6: Evie Shockley's Radical Typography
• February 5: Black Collegiate Women & the Power of Spoken Word Poetry
• February 5: The Enduring Presence of Black Arts Poets
• February 4: Why and How Poetry Struggles to Expand Its Audience
• February 3: 5 Reasons Tyehimba Jess's Leadbelly Matters
• February 2: 8 Black Arts Era Poets and 11 Name Changes
• February 2: A Notebook on the Black Arts Enterprise
• February 1: The Malcolm X Mixtape
• February 1: Blogging about Poetry in January 2012
January
• January31: Toward a Contemporary History of Black Persona Poems
• January 31: Stacey L. Brown discusses Yusef Komunyakaa
• January 30: Blogging about Black Women Poets in 2011
• January 30: Stacey L. Brown discusses "Barbie's Little Sister" by Allison Joseph
• January 29: Stacey L. Brown discusses "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks
• January 29: Black Boys and the Golden Age of Hip Hop
• January 28: A Notebook on Eugene B. Redmond & the EBR Collection
• January 28: 7 Poems by Lucille Clifton on the Poetry Foundation Site
• January 26: African American Poets on the Poetry Foundation Site
• January 26: 7 Poems by Robert Hayden on the Poetry Foundation Site
• January 25: Why Elizabeth Alexander's Presence on Twitter Matters
• January 23: 6 Poems by Margaret Walker on the Poetry Foundation Site
• January 22: 10 Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks on the Poetry Foundation site
• January 21: 10 Poems by Langston Hughes on the Poetry Foundation site
• January 19: Making'em See Red: Malcolm X's Poetic Touch
• January 16: The Upsides of the Vendler/Dove Debate
• January14: From Major Poets to Major Public Intellectuals
• January 12: bell hooks, the poet
• January 11: Malcolm X, the Poet
• January 10: Afrofuturism & Poetry Course Description
• January10: 20 Years of Awards & Recognition in Poetry, 1992-2012
• January 9: African Americans Assonance and Alliteration
• January 9: Accomplished Poets Still Receive Little Popular Attention
• January 8: August Wilson, the poet
• January 8: African American Poets & The Poetry Establishment
• January 4: Poets, Personas & Runaways
• January 3: Persona Poems: A Major Trend in Black Poetry
• January 2: African American Poets & the Black Female Body
• January 2: Blogging about Poetry in 2011
• January 1: Blogging about Poetry in December 2011
2011
December
• December 31: The Year in African American Poetry: A Chronology
• December 30: Sanchez, Black Arts Poet, Appointed Poet Laureate of Philly
• December 30: Reading Black & Radically: A Brief Reflection
• December 30: The Coverage of Rita Dove's Anthology
• December 29: Calvin Forbes's "Talking Blues," a Favorite in 2011
• December 29: Blogging & Linking to Poetry Foundation Site in 2011
• December 28: The Poetry Foundation Site as a Vital Resource
• December 27: An Extended Notebook on the works of writers, artists & cultural workers
• December 27: Objectification and History in Derek Walcott's Omeros by Emily Phillips
• December 27: The Coverage of Michael Eric Dyson's Jay-Z Course
• December 27: A Notebook on the work of Kevin Young
• December 26: A Notebook on the work of Allison Joseph
• December 26: A Notebook on the work of Margaret Walker
• December 26: A Notebook on the Work of Evie Shockley
• December 26: Poetry News Coverage in 2011
• December 20: The Case for Kevin Young's Ardency
• December 19: African American Poetry on 2011 Best of Lists
• December 16: How Age Matters in the 'Rap as Poetry' Debate
• December 16: 100-plus Poems I Read & Re-Read (online) in 2011
• December 14: The Empowering Possibilities of Black Boys Writing, Reciting Rhymes
• December 13: Notes on the Black Books Book Sale
• December 12: Poetry & the black national anthem at the Presidential Inauguration
• December 10: Collegiate Black Men, Rap, and Poetry
• December 10: Blogging about Poetry in November 2011
• December 9: Eugene B. Redmond: A Human Vertex By Cindy Lyles
• December 9: Divas of the 20th Century Awards Ceremony By Danielle Hall
• December 8: Poster for A 1974 Poetry Festival
• December 7: Notes on Adrian Matejka's "Fisticuffs"
• December 7: Katherine Dunham & EBR Digital Collection By Danielle Hall
• December 7: Communal Inspirations & the EBR Digital Collection By Clarissa Richee
• December 6: Background on Eugene B. Redmond's Extensive Photographic Work
• December 5: Ntozake Shange & the EBR Digital Collection By Danielle Hall
• December 5: Metro East & the EBR Digital Collection By Clarissa Richee
• December 5: Redmond, Dunham & the EBR Digital Collection By Cindy Lyles
• December 5: Utilizing the EBR Digital Collection
• December 5: The EBR Digital Collection
• December 5: A Long Walk with Adrian Matejka & Jack Johnson
• December 4: Recent Rap as Poetry Debates, Conversations
• December 3: The Poet as Essayist: Rita Dove's Response to Helen Vendler
• December 2: Margaret Walker, Struggle & Poetry magazine in the late 1930s
• December 1: A Renegade Woman: Margaret Walker's "Kissie Lee" by Cindy Lyles
November
• November 30: Verbal Effects and Margaret Walker's "Molly Means" Clarissa Richee
• November 29: Responses to Margaret Walker's "For My People"
• November 29: Amiri Baraka's "Digging" - A Powerful Jazz Tribute
• November 28: 10 Poems by Margaret Walker
• November 28: Margaret Walker Week
• November 26: Why the Coverage of Poets Matters
• November 25: Why Poetry Awards Matter
• November 23: Adam Bradley on Common's Creative Process
• November 23: College classes on "The Wire" and Jay-Z
• November 22: From L. Clifton to N. Finney: Achievements of Black Women Poets
• November 21: Places Poets Love
• November 21: Nikky Finney, Facebook & Youtube
• November 19: Some of Adrian Matejka's Jack Johnson poems (online)
• November 19: Reflecting on “From Profit To Prophecy” by Dometi Pongo
• November 19: Redmond Reading at Lovejoy Library
• November 18: Nikky Finney's Poetry-Prose Voice
• November 17: Notes on Memorable Lines from Kevin Young's "Bereavement"
• November 17: Coverage of Nikky Finney's Big Win
• November 16: Winning & Losing Awards, Gaining Prestige in Poetry
• November 15: Ebony magazine & Black Arts Poetry
• November 14: Eric Ruckh & Jeffrey Skoblow Read "Howl" at the Underground
• November 14: Online responses to poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• November 14: My First Book Blues
• November 13: Notes on My First Book Signing
• November 12: Jay-Z, Adam Bradley, & the Rap-Poetry Conversations
• November 9; A Notebook on the Work of Amiri Baraka
• November 7: Blogging about Poetry in October 2011
• November 6: 10 Poets who gained widespread attention in their 20s
• November 4: A Prelude to Rita Dove's Anthology?
• November 3: A Notebook on the work of Nikky Finney
• November 2: A Notebook on the work of Rachel Eliza Griffiths
• November 2: Rachel Eliza Griffiths as Zora Neale Hurston's Janie
• November 2: A Poet Channeling the Work of Black Women Novelists
• November 2: And She's a Poet: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
• November 2: Online Poems By Rachel Eliza Griffiths
• November 2: And She's a Photographer: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
October
• October 31: Notes on Derek Walcott's Omeros By Emily Phillips
• October 30: Redmond, Baraka & Multi-directional Approaches to Poetry
• October 27: Adrian Matejka & Amiri Baraka
• October 27: Dometi Pongo at the Black Verse Exhibit
• October 27: Black Verse: An Exhibit
• October 24: Cole World: Message to the Grassroots By Dometi Pongo
• October 21: The X Image
• October 20: Knowledge-building Images from the Exhibit
• October 19: The Process of Creating a Poetry Exhibit
• October 18: A Glimpse at the Black Verse Exhibit
• October 16: Handwritten & Typed Versions of Rhymes by Dometi Pongo
• October 16: Black Verse flyer
• October 15: Installation of African American Poetry exhibit
• October 15: Black Verse: An Exhibit
• October 15: Decoding Evie Shockley's "mesostics..." Pt. 3 by Cindy Lyles
• October 14: Evie Shockley’s “On New Year’s Eve" by Clarissa Richee
• October 13: Decoding Evie Shockley's “mesostics..." Pt. 2 by Cindy Lyles
• October 13: Eric Ruckh & Jeffrey Skoblow Celebrate "Howl"
• October 12: Blogging about Evie Shockley by Howard Rambsy II
• October 11: Evie Shockley's “my life as china” by Clarissa Richee
• October 10: Decoding Evie Shockley’s “mesostics..." Pt. 1 By Cindy Lyles
• October 10: Evie Shockley Week
• October 9: Blogging about Poetry in September 2011
• October 8: The Writer as Runner: Allison Joseph
• October 7: 20 Poems by Allison Joseph
• October 7: Allison Joseph and Productivity in Poetry
• October 6: "Bio Note" By Allison Joseph By Clarissa Richee
• October 6: Rick Ross and the Streets By Dometi Pongo
• October 5: The Poet Showdown: “Prompt” by Allison Joseph By Cindy Lyles
• October 4: Blogging about Allison Joseph's Work
• October 4: “Elegy for the Person Letter” by Allison Joseph By Clarissa Richee
• October 3: Allison Joseph & Paradoxes: An Introduction By Stacey Lynn Brown
• October 3: Allison Joseph Week
• October 2: Amiri Baraka, Lil Wayne & Mainstream, Underground Audiences
• October 2: The Rising Visibility of Black Women Poets
• October 1: Summarizing a Worldview in Nikki Giovanni’s “Nikki-Rosa” by Cindy Lyles
September
• September 30: Reginald Dwayne Betts's 'Big Word' Love Poem & the Poetry Podcast
• September 30: 100 Black Arts Era Poems
• September 29: The Black Arts Enterprise...Arrives
• September 29: Resources on the histories of Black Arts Poetry
• September 28: The Decline of a Movement, the legacies of Black Arts Poetry
• September 27: Black Arts Poetry & Afrofuturism
• September 26: 5 Ways Black Arts Poets Challenged Anti-Black Racism
• September 25 : 10 Essential Essays by Black Arts Era Poets
• September 24: Coordinators Guide Young People on Tour of Poetry
• September 24: Poetry as Mixed Media Enterprise
• September 24: Women Writers & Black Arts Poetry
• September 23: Haki Madhubuti & the New Black Poetry
• September 22: 10 John Coltrane Poems by Poets of the Black Arts Era
• September 21: 15 Malcolm X Poems by Poets of the Black Arts Era
• September 20: Black Pride & Black Arts Poetry
• September 19: A Look at Margaret Walker's "For Malcolm X" [By Clarissa Richee]
• September 19: Drumvoices: A Remarkable History of Black, American Poetry
• September 18: Toni Morrison & Black Arts Poetry
• September 17: Black Arts Poets as Performers and Recording Artists
• September 16: “sCReeeEEECHHHHHH”: Black Arts Poets Chasing John Coltrane
• September 15: Dudley Randall & Broadside Press
• September 14: Bridging the Gap – Notes on “Murder to Excellence” [By D. A. Pongo]
• September 14: 10 Black Arts Era Poems
• September 13: Poets as Essayists During the Black Arts Era
• September 12: Older Generations of Writers & 'New' Black Poetry
• September 11: 5 Reasons You Want to Know about Jessica Care Moore
• September 11: 30 Anthologies featuring Black Poetry, 1968-1975
• September 10: Jazz & Black Arts Poetry
• September 9: Africa & Black Arts Poetry
• September 8: From a 'Black Art' poem to 'The Black Arts Movement'
• September 7 : 10 Key African American Poems
• September 7: Nikki Giovanni & Black Arts Poetry
• September 6: Malcolm as Muse
• September 5: 5 Labor Day Poems
• September 5: 6 Ways Black Arts Era Anthologies Shaped Black Literary History
• September 4: The Black Panther Party, Black Drama, & Black Arts Poets
• September 3: Amiri Baraka: A Leading Black Arts Figure
• September 3: How Different Audiences Create Different Kinds of Black Poetry
• September 2: Blogging about Poetry in August
• September 2: Negro Digest / Black World magazine & Poetry
• September 1: 30 Days of Black Arts Poetry
August
• August 27: Sonia Sanchez’s morning haiku [By C. Lyles]
• August 26: Jazz, Cultural Capital, and Black Poetry
• August 22: Encountering Poems by Langston Hughes in Comic Strips
• August 22: Evie Shockley's "improper(ty) behavior"
• August 18: The Poet (Tracie Morris) vs. the Rappers (of East St. Louis)
• August 15: The Strength of Weak Ties in Nikky Finney's Sonnet Sequence
• August 14: Black Poetry published by Graywolf Press
• August 13: When Black Poetry Isn't Written & Published, Does It Count?
• August 10: 10 Poems by African American Poets on Poemflow
• August 9: Rachel Eliza Griffiths's Trailer for her Upcoming Book of Poems
• August 7: Elizabeth Alexander's "The Venus Hottentot" during the 1990s
• August 6: Jerry W. Ward as My Gateway Guide to Poetry during the 1990s
• August 5: C. Liegh McInnis's 1990s Groundwork in Mississippi
• August 5: Jessica Care Moore at the Apollo
• August 4: Some Volumes of Poetry Published During the 1990s
• August 3: 10 Books of Collected Works by African American Poets from the 1990s
• August 2: 10 Notable African American Anthologies Feat. Poetry from the 1990s
• August 1: African American Poetry During the 1990s: Some notable occurrences
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry in July 2011
July
• July 31: Working out, listening to Robert Creeley
• July 30: Jill Scott & Erykah Badu: From Spoken Word to R&B
• July 29: How Black Poets Challenged Literary Conventions
• July 27: Poets Who Read vs. Poets Who Perform
• July 25: Spoken Word Poetry & Black Intellectual Histories
• July 25: A Poet, A Rapper, and His Notebooks
• July 22: 5 Animated poems by African American poets
• July 21: Black Poetry published by Norton and Company
• July 19: 10 Poems (with Audio) by Black Poets on Poets.Org site
•July 17: Marking up Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"
• July 16: 8 Lessons, Insights from the Sonia Sanchez Seminar
• July 15: Eugene B. Redmond and the EBR Collection
• July 15: Smartphones and Black Poetry: Some Preliminary Impressions
• July 14: Langston Hughes in Poetry magazine
• July 14: "We Real Cool" & "For My People" First Appeared in Poetry Mag.
• July 13: The Journey of Margaret Walker's "For My People"
• July 12: 4 Langston Hughes poems from 1926 Poetry Magazine
• July 10: Eugene B. Redmond's Epic East St. Louis Poem
• July 7: Black Poetry at the Strand Bookstore
• July 6: When Print, Performance & Online Cultures Converge: Amiri Baraka's "Dope"
• July 6: 10 Amiri Baraka poems on youtube
• July 5: 104 African American Volumes of Poetry by Publisher, 2000-2011
• July 4: Keeping Poetry Alive in Mississippi: C. Liegh McInnis
• July 3: Eugene Redmond and the Ghosts of Dunham, Hurston, & Schomburg
• July 2: Blogging about Black Verse in June 2011
• July 1: Evie Shockley's "ode to my blackness"
June
• June 30: Tyehimba Jess & Treasure Williams on Anti-Black Racism as Ugly Envy
• June 30: The Folk Consciousness of Tyehimba Jess & Treasure Williams
• June 28: The Remarkable Ingenuity (and indifference) of Amiri Baraka
• June 26: 5 Reasons Kevin Young's Ardency Matters
• June 23: Calvin Forbes Shines Some light on Raccoon in Poetry Magazine
• June 22: Black Studies Contributors Attend Sonia Sanchez Seminar
• June 21: Pleasant Surprises: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nikki Giovanni & Poetry Magazine
• June 20: Teleportation & Hughes's "Negro Speaks of Rivers": An Afrofuturist Reading
• June 19: 20 Poems (with Audio) by Black Poets on the Poetry Foundation Site
• June 16: 25 Things to do with Robert Hayden’s “Frederick Douglass”
• June 14: Marilyn Nelson's Carver as a Crucial Connector
• June 13: Nikky Finney's George Bush Sonnet Sequence, Pt. 1
• June 11: Malcolm X--Verbal Artist & Muse
• June 3: Poetry as Passport: Getting to Other Worlds through Translations
• June 1: Toward a Recent Intellectual History of Consciousness in Rap: Jay Electronica
May
• May 31: Gil Scott-Heron and the Poetry, Rap (Dis)Connection
• May 30: 150+ Years of Antislavery Poems by Black Poets
• May 28: Gil Scott's Role in an Untelevised Revolution
• May 26: 104 Volumes of African American Poetry, 2000-2011
• May 23: Teenage Black Girls, "Ego Tripping," and African American Literary History
• May 21: A Poet Laureate (Always) at Work
• May 20: Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, & Black Poetry Placement Power
• May 19: The Rewards of Memorizing Haiku
• May 19: The Golden (Birth) Years of Rappers
• May 18: The Rise & Fall of Signature Poems
• May 17: From Rapper to Poet to Hip Hop Head: The Sagas of Treasure Williams
• May 16: Black Arts Enterprise--Promo
• May 14: The Value of Skeptical Poets: Notes on Dwayne Betts
• May 8: Blogging about Black Poetry -- 2009 & 2008
• May 8: Blogging about Black Poetry -- 2010
• May 7: Kevin Young & the Langston Hughes Connection
• May 6: Blogging about Black Verse -- 2011
• May 6: 10 Poems by Evie Shockley
• May 6: The Enviable Persistence of Poet Allison Joseph
• May 4: From Popular Black Poets to Public Intellectuals
• May 3: A Pre-future of black writing: some notations
April
• April 29: Evie Shockley and This Douglass Poetry Discourse
• April 23: Images of Black Writers in Mainstream Publications
• April 19: Memorizing Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
• April 18: Memorizing Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass"
• April 14: Rita Dove Addresses "Racist Selectivity"
• April 11: Memorizing Kelly Norman Ellis's "Raised by Women"
• April 11: Following Poetry Scholars
• April 4: Tyehimba Jess & the Persona of a Blind Black Man
• April 2: 10 Poems by Kevin Young
• April 2: Nikky Finney's Reading Style
• April 2: How Public are Poets?
• April 2: Nikky Finney and her Audience
March
• March 22: Why the Birth Years of Black Poets Matter
• March 14: Nikky Finney, Nikki Giovanni, & the Black Poetry Best Seller List
• March 10: The Signed Mixology and For Show Mixology
• March 10: Allison Joseph's Presence Among our 100 books
• March 10: 100 Volumes of Poetry
• March 7: Kevin Young Representing Cinque
• March 5: Treasure Williams and the Arkansippi Effect
February
• Feb. 28: Evie Shockley Addresses Thomas Jefferson
• Feb. 21: Exhibit on Haki Madhubuti
• Feb. 16: The Visual Experience of Evie Shockley’s the new black
• Feb. 16: Mixed Media Poetry Project @ William Woods University
• Feb. 15: Treasure Williams Channels Fannie Lou Hamer in STL
• Feb. 15: Presenting Poetry & Photos at St. Louis Community College
• Feb. 7: Multi-threaded Comments on Kevin Young’s Ardency
• Feb. 7: The Coverage of Kevin Young’s Ardency
• Feb. 7: The Design and Structure of Ardency
• Feb. 7: Kevin Young’s Expansive Body of Work
January
• Jan. 29: Treasure Williams on Fannie Lou Hamer on Facebook
• Jan. 29: The Contemporary Poet as Historical Researcher
• Jan. 24: Books by K. Warren, E. Shockley, & K. Young
• Jan. 14: Black Studies & Alternate Personas
2010
• October 28: Kevin Young's "easy on the eyes" approach
• October 16:Honorée Jeffers and Phillis Wheatley
• September 10: Multi-threaded commentary & Allison Joseph
• September 10: Notes on Allison Joseph's reading at SIUE
• September 7: Allison Joseph and the fourteen-line box
• September 10: Notes on Allison Joseph's reading at SIUE
• September 7: Allison Joseph and the fourteen-line box
• September 3: Allison Joseph and Creativity
• July 26: Looking for Allison Joseph
• July 16: From Poet to Short Short Writer to Novelist...(Richard Wright)• July 15: Jay Elect & the Ghost of Christopher Wallace
• July 5: Kevin Young's "Bereavement"
• April 22: Treasure Williams & Sonic Possibilities
2009
• November 14: Relate-able Poetry
• October 8: Nikki Giovanni's Bicycles
• October 4: The Promise of Kevin Young
• September 22: The Promise of Poetry
• June 4: Adrian Matejka's Mixology
• February 6: Poetry and Economy
• January 17: Honoring the Ancestors
2008
• September 26: Verse #3: In the Funk World
• September 19: Verse #2: We Real Cool
• September 12: Doing Things with Blk Poetry
