Poetry



Index
• Anthologies                • Bad man poetry          • Prizes and awards in African American poetry
• Persona poems          • poetry /checklists        • Poems about slavery and struggles for liberation
• Black women poets    • Black Arts era             • Timelines        • Year in African American poetry entries

2025
March

February 

January

2024
December

November 

October

September 


July 

June 

May 
April 

March 

January 

2023
December 

November

October

September 

August 

July 

June

May 

April 

March 
February

January
• January 17: John Keene as Jazz Poet

2022
December

November

October 

September

August

July

June 

May 

April 

March

February 

January 
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2021

2021 
December

November

August

July

June 

May

April

March 

February 

January 

2020
December

November

October 

September 

August 

July
• July 31: 77 poems about vulnerable black boys & black men (for Jerry W. Ward, Jr.'s birthday) 
• July 6: Is It Baraka Time now? 

June
• June 1: Covering volumes of poetry with collegiate black men
• June 1: The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
• June 1: Blogging about poetry in May

May
• May 10: Discovering Jericho Brown in 2008 (and then reading more)
• May 5: Jericho Brown wins Pulitzer
• May 1: More on James Smethurst's Amiri Baraka book
• May 1: Blogging about poetry in April 2020

April
• April 26: An enriching Amiri Baraka creative critical domain
• April 14: A post from William J. Harris on birds sparked Amiri Baraka project
• April 13: A Notebook on the Wonderful Wordless Phrasings of Amiri Baraka
• April 1: Blogging about poetry in March 2020

March
• March 24: Writing about a poetic trilogy of bad men
• March 14: Coverage of Jay Electronica's A Written Testimony, featuring Jay-Z
• March 1: Blogging about poetry in February

February
• February 29: Nikky Finney and black poetry in 2011
• February 19: Nikky Finney's generational cohort
• February 8: Still thinking about to Nikky Finney's "Plunder"
• February 2: On first meeting Nikky Finney
• February 2: Returning to Nikky Finney
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2020

January
• January 18: A checklist of poetry volumes on black historical figures
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2019

2019
December 2019
• December 24: Poetry by black writers, 2000 - 2019
• December 14: The year in African American poetry, 2019
• December 9: Graywolf Press publications by black writers during the 2010s
• December 1: Blogging about poetry in November 2019

November
• November 26: A roundup of poetry volumes, 2010 - 2019
• November 17: The trouble with black poetry studies
• November 1: Blogging about poetry in October

October
• October 28: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 2000 - 2019
• October 24: Year in African American poetry entries
• October 1: Blogging about poetry in September

September
• September 29: Collegiate black women as reader-listener-viewers
• September 21: More on generations of black women students and artists
• September 16: Poetry vs. Poetry entries
• September 14: Black women's poetry: from Margaret Walker to Megan Thee Stallion
• September 1: Blogging about poetry in August

August
• August 13: Black women artists by birth year for fall class
• August 12: The modalities of Angel C. Dye
• August 12: Generations and genres of black women writers
• August 12: Black women, creativity, and styles of delivery
• August 2: Slavery and Poetic Imagination
• August 1: Blogging about poetry in July 2019

July
• July 1: "The presence of Nikki Giovanni ... was extraordinary"
• July 1: Blogging about poetry in June 2019

June
• June 30: A notebook on the Furious Flower Nikki Giovanni seminar
• June 29: 160 volumes of poetry by black women, 2000 - 2019
• June 30: Margo Crawford discusses poetry and visual art at Nikki Giovanni seminar
• June 20: William J. Harris explains why Nikki Giovanni, other popular poets are often ignored
• June 19: Giovanni Scholars converge at Furious Flower
• June 18: Nikki Giovanni, collegiate black men, and power poses
• June 17: The many versions of Nikki Giovanni's Ego Tripping
• June 1: Blogging about poetry in May 2019

May
• May 28: Preface to even more Amiri Baraka Studies
• May 26: 10 years after Adrian Matejka's Mixology
• May 15: What kind of poetry is most popular?
• May 1: Blogging about poetry in April 2019

April
• April 30: African American recipients of poetry prizes, awards (1987-2019)
• April 29: African American poetry award, fellowship recipients (by title)
• April 8: Dometi Pongo and the Malcolm X Mixtape
• April 1: Allison Joseph's 19 books and 508 poems
• April 1: Notes on Allison Joseph book collection
• April 1: Blogging about poetry in March 2019

March
• March 24: Jericho Brown and 'N'em
• March 23: Black male bodies, Jericho Brown, and The Tradition
• March 20: "Oldest of the young poets": On Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Alexander, and crucial connectors
• March 20: A Notebook on Jericho Brown
• March 19: Jericho Brown's 3 books and 132 poems
• March 18: Notations on Jericho Brown's The Tradition
• March 1: Blogging about poetry in February 2019

February
• February 27: Bad men, poetry, and Black Book History
• February 23: Graywolf Press, Black Writers, and Book History
• February 22: Jay-Z and Black Book History
• February 21: Amiri Baraka and Black Book History
• February 19: Allison Joseph and Black Book History
• February 17: Ai and Black Book History
• February 16: Lucille Clifton and Black Book History
• February 13: Jason McCall, cultural reference, and Black Book History
• February 12: Black Book History and the greatest 25 years in African American women's writing
• February 11: Third World Press and Black Book History
• February 9: Nikki Giovanni and Black Book History
• February 9: A Notebook on Nikki Giovanni
• February 8: Tyehimba Jess's Leadbelly and Black Book History
• February 7: A checklist of Library of Congress audio recordings -- black poets and other writers
• February 5: Elizabeth Alexander and Black Book History
• February 2: Poetry, Anthologies, and Black Book History
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2019

January
• January 28: Remixing Dometi Pongo's Mental Slavery
• January 2: C. Liegh McInnis's rapid pace across "The Bridge"
• January 2: A selection of poems by words per minute
• January 2: Amiri Baraka's "Dope" in the context of rap freestyle
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2018

2018
December
• December 31: Blogging about Amiri Baraka in 2018
• December 31: A visual recap of poetry blog entries in 2018
• December 17: The year in African American poetry, 2018
• December 13: A short checklist of black women singers represented in black poetry
• December 13: Tiana Clark and poetic lineages
• December 11: Eve L. Ewing, poetry, comic books, and infinite possibility
• December 2: Riri Williams, Ironheart, Eve Ewing, and Maya Angelou
• December 1: Blogging about poetry in November 2018

November
• November 13: Amiri Baraka, ProQuest, and dissertations 1960 - 2018
• November 7: Black girls and women count
• November 1: Blogging about poetry in October 2018

October
• October 26: A notebook on Tiana Clark
• October 26: Photo-review of Tiana Clark reading at SIUE bookstore
• October 26: Tiana Clark takes flight
• October 26: Tiana Clark reads her poem from Poetry
• October 26: Tiana Clark offers a prompt for rethinking Amiri Baraka's Dutchman
• October 16: Remixing Amiri Baraka's "The Aesthetic," Part 1
• October 10: Anthologizing Amiri Baraka
• October 1: Blogging about poetry in September 2018


September 
• September 27: Adrian Matejka's "Sporting Life" meets hip hop
• September 17: Amiri Baraka's five most anthologized poems
• September 2: When Haki Madhubuti and Paul Coates discovered Richard Wright
• September 2: Why spoken word poetry appears infrequently in literature courses
• September 1: Blogging about poetry in August 2018

August
• August 19: 50 scholarly books on black poetry, 1997-2018
• August 3: 53 black women poets, 106 poems: Audio recordings
• August 1: Poetry, high school students, and Nikki Giovanni's Power Pose
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry in July 2018

July
• July 25: Amiri Baraka's three most anthologized poems
• July 25: Remixing Amiri Baraka's RhythmBlues
• July 19: Poems by younger poets for younger students
• July 15: Black poetry, high school students, and audio recordings
• July 1: Blogging about poetry in June 2018

June
• June 28: An Index for Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches
• June 27: Jason McCall's afrofuturist views on Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown
• June 4: Eve L. Ewing, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Studies, and creativity
• June 4: Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, and Jay-Z
• June 1: Blogging about poetry in May 2018

May
• May 30: A notebook on the sound of black women poets
• May 23: The popular appeal of black women poets reciting their works
• May 22: Eugene B. Redmond hosts Cornel West in East St. Louis
• May 22: Cornel West, Eugene B. Redmond, and conversations about poetry
• May 18: Listening to 100 black women poets reading 200 poems
• May 18: 30 black women poets reading their works
• May 8: The Editorial & Institutional Power of African American Poets
• May 1: Blogging about poetry in April 2018

April
• April 30: Why Langston Hughes, Adrian Matejka appeal to high school black boys, collegiate black men
• April 30: Recent coverage on Kevin Young
• April 29: Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young in the New York Times
• April 28: Dynamic black women speakers vs. flat sounding poets
• April 27: Why some black poetry sounds boring to black students (abstract)
• April 26: Understanding the favorite poets of black women students
• April 19: Notes on "Beyond Poet Voice"
• April 16: Duos of poets -- Evie Shockley & Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith & Kevin Young -- in the news
• April 1: Blogging about poetry in March 2018

March
• March 6: Amiri Baraka's "Dope" and June Jordan's "Poem about My Rights"
• March 5: Black writers and Basquiat
• March 2: Jeffrey Skoblow's Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Books
• March 1: Blogging about poetry in February 2018

February
• February 15: Slavery references in rap: an exhibit
• February 4: Collegiate black men, rap courses, and active participation
• February 3: Freestyle
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2018

January
• January 23: Amiri Baraka's rap style and rejection of poet voice
• January 23: Poet Voice
• January 10: From Amiri Baraka and Greg Tate to a generation of black men writers
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2017

2017
December
• December 26: A visual recap of poetry blog entries in 2017
• December 21: The year in African American poetry, 2017
• December 18: Courses on the Black Arts Movement
• December 13: William J. Harris discusses Amiri Baraka for the St. Louis Book Club
• December 5: Eugene B. Redmond meets with first-year collegiate black men
• December 2: William J. Harris and Eugene B. Redmond celebrate milestones in 2017
• December 1: Blogging about poetry in November 2017

November
• November 22: 10 years of Adrian Matejka readings
• November 22: Adrian Matejka participates in the River Styx Reading Series
• November 15: Notations on Kevin Young
• November 13: Poetry and the creative domains of collegiate black women
• November 7: Recent coverage on Kevin Young
• November 5: A checklist of poetry checklists
• November 1: Blogging about poetry in October 2017

October
• October 18: Cindy Reed, black girls, and poetry
• October 13: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 1773 - 2017
• October 9: Taking a look at Evie Shockley's books
• October 1: Blogging about Poetry in September 2017

September
• September 9: LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka, and nicknames of collegiate black women
• September 1: Blogging about poetry in August 2017

August
• August 30: Danielle Hall: when the poet, dancer, and historian are one
• August 30: Dometi Pongo, creative productivity, and those notebooks
• August 18: Evie Shockley, Amiri Baraka, and consequential questions in African American artistic thought
• August 10: Adrian Matejka--sampling a black interstellar history in verse
• August 9: From the black aesthetic to black aesthetics to form
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry in July 2017

July
• July 30: The African American and African artwork adorning Elizabeth Alexander's books
• July 29: Eugene B. Redmond's brilliant bibliographic work
• July 22: What if contemporary African American poetry had Black Arts-like scholarly support?
• July 16: Why collegiate black men value Adrian Matejka's Jack Johnson poems
• July 14: Why some collegiate black women might find contemporary black poetry boring
• July 11: Writing African American college students letters about poetry and ideas
• July 1: Blogging about poetry in June 2017

June
• June 20: The good news and the trouble with black poetry
• June 1: Blogging about poetry in May 2017

May
• May 4: Reading & re-reading Allison Joseph's poetry in 2017
• May 1: Blogging about poetry in April 2017

April
• April 28: A checklist of liner notes written by Amiri Baraka  
• April 27: Amiri Baraka, editorial cartoons, and poetic insults 
• April 25: Amiri Baraka's searing critiques of U.S. Presidents
• April 24: Baraka, black boys & poetic curiosity  
• April 10: Tyehimba Jess wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• April 1: Blogging about poetry in March 2017

March
• March 23: NEA and presses that publish African American poets
• March 17: What NEA has meant to African American poets
• March 16: Tracie Morris's extraordinary poetry reading pace
• March 14: Cornelius Eady, the poet as storyteller
• March 13: William J. Harris poetry reading 
• March 13: Photo-journal from William J. Harris birthday party
• March 12: William J. Harris @ 75
• March 12: A Notebook on William Harris    
• March 7: Evie Shockley gives reading in St. Louis  
• March 1: Blogging about poetry in February 2017

February
• February 25: Black writers and high productivity
• February 23: Cross gender play in black persona poetry
• February 23: African American literary studies, public programming & the Age of Trump 
• February 17: Elizabeth Alexander, the history, and the rise of African American poetry
• February 9: Clint Smith, Contemporary Poetry, and Black History
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2017

January
• January 31: A checklist of Emmett Till poems
• January 28: Blogging about Elizabeth Alexander, Allison Joseph, Marilyn Nelson, Evie Shockley & Patricia Smith
• January 27: An Anti-War march, Amiri and Amina Baraka, and me
• January 25: The poetics and politics of protest signs
• January 24: A short checklist of African American poets on artworks & artists
• January 19: The shifting places of (black student) audiences for poetry
• January 17: A visual recap of blog entries on Tyehimba Jess's Olio
• January 17: The shifting places of jazz poetry
• January 14: Memorable black poetry collection: Arnold Adoff's I Am the Darker Brother
• January 12: Locating Patricia Smith in histories of contemporary poetry
• January 6: Recognizing the political struggles behind black poets as award winners and finalists
• January 3: From Jack Johnson to the Stars: Charting Adrian Matejka's next moves
• January 1: Blogging about Poetry in December 2016

2016
December
• December 30: Teaching an Af-Am lit. course with audio recordings of black women reading poetry as the basis
• December 29: Blogging about Amiri Baraka in 2016 
• December 27: A visual recap of poetry blog entries in 2016 
• December 26: The year in African American poetry, 2016
• December 16: Kevin Young's Books: A Visual History 
• December 1: Blogging about Poetry in November

November
• November 19: The growth of hip hop studies
• November 7: Cindy Reed Reps East St. Louis
• November 1: Blogging about Poetry in October

October
• October 26: Colson Whitehead & Kevin Young autograph an early work
• October 19: Eugene B. Redmond visits the Redmond class
• October 5: Collegiate Black Women and Empowering poems
• October 1: Blogging about Poetry in September

September
• September 26: The Magic of Juju and Black Arts texts
• September 26:The Magic of Juju and Black Arts scholarly discourse 
• September 26:Kalamu ya Salaam's introduction to the Black Arts era
• September 26: Kalamu ya Salaam, Eugene B. Redmond, and special collections
• September 26: A Notebook on Kalamu ya Salaam's The Magic of Juju  
• September 23: Bro Yao in the mix 
• September 23: Bro Yao's Inheritance 
• September 19: “I own my own masters”: An exhibit on slavery references in rap music 
• September 17: Haki Madhubuti donates Third World Press books to EBR Center 
• September 17: Notebook on the EBR Collection & EBR Learning Center 
• September 9: Amiri Baraka's sonic movement: from reader to performer
• September 1: Blogging about Poetry in August 2016 

August
• August 30: How do we get from Gwendolyn Brooks to Mahogany L. Browne?
• August 26: C. Liegh McInnis's books 
• August 26: The Inspiring Productivity of C. Liegh McInnis  
• August 22: An African American literature course: Recordings of black women reading poetry   
• August 12: Kevin Young as poet, editor, curator, and now Schomburg director 
• August 11: Meta DuEwa Jones and the mix of black poetry scholarly work 
• August 11: Meta DuEwa Jones & Evie Shockley as guides  
• August 10: Coverage of Tyehimba Jess's Olio 
• August 3: Three black poetry projects confront police brutality
• August 3: Blogging about poetry in July 2016 
• August 2: Photographs of Black Poets Matter: Victoria Smith and Of Poetry and Protest   
• August 1: Amiri Baraka's presence in Of Poetry and Protest
• August 1: Of Poetry and Protest and its aesthetic force

July
• July 29: Listening to Dometi Pongo's Creative Work on Malcolm X 
• July 13: List of audio recordings by black women poets and lyricists
• July 3: Blogging about Poetry in June 2016

June
• June 30: Situating the bold & bodacious poetic voice of Mahogany L. Browne
• June 29: Henry Dumas, the Black Panther comic book, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
• June 27: Can the sounds of black women's poetic voices get a witness?
• June 22: Differences between black poets and black poets
• June 1: Blogging about Poetry in May 2016 

May
• May 29: Black men writers and creativity, 1995 - 2016
• May 27: Gun violence, Black Lives Matter, and poetry 
• May 25: Tony Medina and bystander blues
• May 24: When will poets & literary scholars deal with gun violence?   
• May 15: African American Poets and Academic Appointments  
• May 14: Books noted (poetry #1)
• May 2: Margaret Walker almost won the Pulitzer in 1943 
• May 2: Margaret Walker and exclamation points in African American poetry
• May 1: Poetry awards and lucky breaks
• May 1: Blogging about Poetry in April 2016

April
• April 26: When a poetry scholar offers a class on Biggie, Jay Z & Nas
• April 25: "Oooowow!": the wonderful wordless phrasings of Amiri Baraka
• April 24: 50 Amiri Baraka poems on YouTube  
• April 18: Poetry Book Blurbs: Cornelius Eady's Tireless Promotional Work  
• April 18: A Notebook on Cornelius Eady
• April 16: Why the shift in poetry award juries matters
• April 13: George Packer compliments LeRoi Jones (but derides Amiri Baraka) 
• April 11: Poets as Researchers: Tyehimba Jess and Robin Coste Lewis 
• April 3: In Search of Amiri Baraka
• April 3: Amiri Baraka and Tyehimba Jess: on the Music and Musicians 
• April 2: Tyehimba Jess & Sterling Plumpp: Synthesizing the Blues
• April 1: Blogging about Poetry in March 2016

March
• March 30: Tyehimba Jess's Olio: African American cultural & historical studies 
• March 29: Tyehimba Jess's Olio and contemporary African American poetry 
• March 28: Toward Histories of Contemporary Black Women's Poetry  
• March 26: From Leadbelly to Olio
• March 26: Tyehimba Jess and the outstanding Olio
• March 26: Those Jet beauties vs. Emmett Till
• March 26: Marilyn Nelson & Philip Kolin on Emmett Till
• March 24: Philip C. Kolin fuses art and history in Emmett Till book
• March 21: Reginald Harris, Jericho Brown, Tee-Tee, Keyshawn, and 'N'em 
• March 15: Reginald Harris & Rickey Laurentiis: on injured male bodies
• March 14: Reginald Harris & Phillip B. Williams: Witnessing lost boys & men
• March 11: A Notebook on Robin Coste Lewis
• March 4: Poets as Catalogers: The Cases of Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young, and Amiri Baraka 
• March 1: Blogging about Poetry in February 2016

February 
• February 28: Ages of African American poets when they published popular poems
• February 27: A Notebook on Marilyn Nelson 
• February 27: Notebook on Gwendolyn Brooks   
• February 26: Poetry magazine published two of the most anthologized poems
• February 25: Two of the most popular non-anthologized poems
• February 24: Adding poems by Frances E. W. Harper & George Moses Horton
• February 23: 52 of the most anthologized African American poems
• February 20: A Poetic Trilogy: Jericho Brown, Phillip B. Williams & Rickey Laurentiis
• February 8: “I own my own masters”: An exhibit on slavery references in rap music 
• February 6: Kevin Young's Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
• February 1: Amiri Baraka's Metaphors and Ferocious Name-calling
• February 1: Blogging about Poetry in January 2016

January
• January 31: Elizabeth Alexander's Venus Hottentot & John Keene's Miss La La 
• January 16: Adding the poet and homeboy Nate Marshall to the mix  
• January 14: Mapping with poetry, writing Chicago: The art, locales of Nate Marshall  
• January 7: John Keene's Zion and bad men in poetry
• January 6: Awards, anthologies, and the shift from poems to volumes of poetry  
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2015

2015
December
• December 26: Reading Celeste Doaks in 2015   
• December 26: Talking poetry with Tony Bolden, Yao Glover & William J. Harris in 2015 
• December 26: A Notebook on 2015 Poetry Reflections 
• December 26: The year in African American poetry, 2015
• December 24: Blogging about Elizabeth Alexander, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Robin Coste Lewis in 2015
• December 23: Reading Kevin Young in 2015 
• December 23: Notes on compiling an expansive list of award-winning poets 
• December 22: A list of award-winning African American poets, 1975 - 2015 
• December 18: A checklist of poems featuring ex-slaves
• December 17: Reginald Flood channels Harriet Jacobs and Mary Prince
• December 14: Black men, poetry, awards & fellowships, 1975-2015 
• December 12: Black Women, Poetry, Awards & Fellowships, 1975-2015 
• December 9: Reginald Flood's Frederick Douglass Poetic Contributions  
• December 2: African American poets and the Cave Canem Poetry Prize
• December 1: African American poets and the Whiting Writers' Award
• December 1: Blogging about Poetry in November 2015

November
• November 30: African American poets and the Guggenheim Fellowship, 1935 - 2015 
• November 28: African American finalists: National Book Award for Poetry, 1990-2015
• November 21: Robin Coste Lewis, Black poets & the National Book Award
• November 15: Cindy Lyles gives opening reading at the EBR Learning Center 
• November 9: Black Female Figures & Poetry Book Covers
• November 9: A crown of blog entries for Leadbelly: project overview 
• November 9: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 7: discoveries with students 
• November 8: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 6: Jess, Shockley, and Lewis
• November 8: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 5: Eady, Jess, and Matejka
• November 7: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 4: Those multiple voices
• November 7: The extraordinary ambition of Robin Coste Lewis's "Voyage of the Sable Venus"
• November 6: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 3: In the mix   
• November 6: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 2: The poetry volume as gateway
• November 3: 10 years reading Leadbelly, Pt. 1: Amiri Baraka and Tyehimba Jess
• November 1: Blogging about poetry in October 2015  

October
• October 31: Treasure Shields Redmond's chop: 7 notations
• October 31: What it's like to read Treasure Redmond's chop
• October 31: Locating Treasure Shields Redmond among black women poets 
• October 31: Treasure Redmond, C. Liegh McInnis, Jolivette Anderson & useful poetic templates
• October 31: Treasure Shields Redmond's chop and Facebook
• October 31: 30 Volumes of poetry between Treasure Redmond's poems and book
• October 31: Treasure Redmond's and Tara Betts's chapbooks
• October 31: Treasure Redmond: Embracing and Advancing a Form
• October 31: Remixing Kelly Norman Ellis's "Raised by Women"
• October 31: Rap Music & Slavery References: A Partial List 
• October 19: Rap vs. Poetry, an ongoing conversation 
• October 17: Books on Hip Hop
• October 16: Choosing Jason McCall's Dear Hero,
• October 16: A Notebook on Jason McCall
• October 15: Remixing Allison Joseph's "Thirty Lines" Poem at the East St. Louis Charter High School 
• October 12:  Remixing poetry at the East St. Louis Charter High School  
• October 5: A partial list of Black Arts-related scholarship, 2004 - 2015
• October 1: Blogging about poetry in September 2015

September
• September 29: Kalamu ya Salaam and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Criticism
• September 28: The many appearances of Amiri Baraka in Negro Digest/Black World 
• September 26: Covering Robert Hayden's "The Whipping" with young black men
  September 26: From Poet-Scholars to Poets and Scholars 
• September 24: Listening session activity with ENG 111 students at Lovejoy Library
• September 24: Listening session activity at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 24: Listening session activity at the East St. Louis Charter High School
• September 21: Displaying images of poets and their publications  
• September 18: An early poem for Malcolm X 
• September 13: Rootwork by Veronica Golos and the blurbs that got away
• September 13: Amiri Baraka previews a shift in African American literary discourse, 1965 
• September 10: A notebook on Tara Betts
• September 10: The serendipity of poetry releases by Tara Betts & Treasure Redmond
• September 10: The Rise of Poet-Critics during the 1960s and 1970s
• September 9: Amiri Baraka on those Albert Ayler "ruins" and "rumors"
• September 7: Searching for Sarah Webster Fabio in Negro Digest and Black World
• September 6: Outstanding Special Issue on Black Poetry--Negro Digest (Sept. 1969)
 • September 1: Blogging about Poetry in August 2015  

August
• August 31: Returning, yet again, to Reginald Harris's "The Lost Boys"
• August 30: Allison Funk, Maria Sibylla Merian, and poetic discoveries
• August 28: Bad Men and Black Poetry
• August 27: Poets make Basquiat, Leadbelly & Jack Johnson Legible 
• August 26: Bad, Phenomenal Women and Black Poetry
• August 25: Poetry and the Wonder Room
• August 19: Tyehimba Jess readings in 2005 and 2015
• August 18: Laughter and Tears: A Poetry Reading by Kevin Young  
• August 13: Reading Poetry and Illustrated Narratives with Black Boys
• August 12: Cultural Nationalism and Black Women's Poetry 
• August 11: Women's Work and Black Poetry
• August  7: The Poet as Resource Guide: The Case of Tara Betts
• August 7: How Major Jackson diversifies the "bad man" poetry paradigm 
• August  7: William J. Harris, black arts discourse, and Broadside Press
• August 6: The travel writer as poet: the case of Major Jackson 
• August 6: Major Jackson & the W. W. Norton black poetry mix
• August 5: Christopher Gilbert and the wonder of everyday moments 
• August 5: Christopher Gilbert and immersive jazz poetry
• August 5: The Graywolf Press black poetry mix & Christopher Gilbert
• August 5: Graywolf brings Christopher Gilbert to a new generation of readers  
• August 4: The Visual Artist as Poet: The Case of Rachel Eliza Griffiths  
• August 4: Rachel Eliza Griffiths's surrealist moments
• August 4: A connection between Lighting the Shadow and Mule & Pear 
• August 3: Rachel Eliza Griffiths's dedications to women
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry in July 2015

July
• July 27: A convergence of scholars, artists, and scholar-artists
• July 26: Black Poetry and the History Section: a partial list
• July 26: The Race for History Among Contemporary Black Poets, Pt.1
• July 26: The Race for History Among Contemporary Black Poets, Pt. 2
• July 26: Kent Foreman, Tyehimba Jess, and the histories of spoken poetry
• July 26: A poetry room of their own 
• July 26: Paratexts and the Race for History Among Contemporary Black Poets
• July 26: A Notebook on Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement
• July 18: Blog entries about black women poets
• July 16: Graywolf Press and African American Poetry
• July 15: A Baraka book Sighting at the Strand
• July 12: The Worlds of Elizabeth Alexander 
• July 8: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 1854 - 2015
• July 7: The EBR Digital Collections & new directions in recovery work 
• July 6: Cultural Signifiers in Cornrows and Cornfields
• July 3: Celeste Doaks's Father-Daughter poems
• July 2: A select chronology of the EBR Collection 
• July 2: EBR Digital Exhibits & Collections
• July 2: Select list of debut collections by African American poets, 2000 - 2015
• July 1: The value of 'Cornrows and Cornfields' by Celeste Doaks
• July 1: Blogging about Poetry in June 2015

June
• June 30: Developing the EBR African American Cultural Life
• June 30: The Eugene B. Redmond Interviews as a Blueprint
• June 30: Eugene B. Redmond, Mary Z. Rose, and the Million Man March
• June 30: A Notebook on Lovejoy Library's EBR Digital Collection
• June 29: Black poetry in a time of mass murder
• June  18: A Photographic Catalog of Poetry Books 
• June 12: Hip Hop Books as Shields
• June 10: Poetry, Data, and Blogging
• June 5: Allison Funk & Wonder Rooms
• June 1: Blogging about Poetry in May 2015

May
• May 25: Poetry and "Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks" 
• May 24: Jay Z and the freestyle as mode of critique and creativity 
• May 22: Black Poetry Debates: tracking histories of tension, vs., and questions
• May 19: Malcolm X & Poetic Possibilities
• May 12: Digital Creativity: Tyehimba Jess's "Another Man Done"
• May 9: 6 reasons why poets like bad boys
• May 7: Poetry, bad men, and intellectual histories
• May 2: Poetry conversations and tummeling
• May 1: Poetry commentary exhibit 
• May 1: Blogging about Poetry in April 2015
 
April
• April 27: Thinking about Collegiate Black Men Writing about Poetry 
• April 26: Poetry and service-learning 
• April 6: The value of lists about African American poetry  
• April 4: An audio exhibit concerning the EBR Collection 
• April 2: The value of blogging African American poetry news   
• April 2: A Notebook on the value of blogging about African American poetry 
• April 1: Blogging about Poetry in March 2015  
 
March
• March 30: A senior African American poetry scholar as blogger: The Case of Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
• March 29: Black poetry and socioeconomic divides
• March 28: The value of blogging about African American Poetry 
• March 26: Remixing Poetry, Pt. 2 at the SIUE/East St. Louis Charter High School
• March 21: Young Scientist Program visits SIUE/East St. Louis Charter School
• March 21: Remixing Poetry at the SIUE/East St. Louis Charter High School
• March 21: Poetry magazine and outreach on social media; or the Don Share model
• March 20: Volumes of poetry, cell phone images, and textbooks
• March 16: The Novelization of Contemporary African American Poetry
• March 15: Drawing Connections, Reading Reginald Harris's "The Lost Boys"
• March 15:  A Notebook on Reginald Harris
• March 13: Claudia Rankine's Citizen becomes a "first"
• March 10: Why it matters that the University of Oklahoma fraternity chant was also a poem
• March 10: Showcasing a personal collection of African American Poetry
• March 9: Poetry, humor, and creativity
• March 8: Black Poets, Bad Men, and Creativity
• March 7: Jay Z & Jean-Michel Basquiat as poets
• March 4: Poetry blogging is more productive and smarter than you think 
• March 1: Blogging about Poetry in February 2015

February
• February 28: What it's like reading just one poem? 
• February 25: Reflections for Poetry Project
• February18: Jean Kittrell, Eugene B. Redmond, and Jazz Literature at SIUE
• February 14: When the Poet and Rapper is One  
• February 10: Tony Medina's poetry books 
• February 6: Multiple versions of Kevin Young's To Repel Ghosts
• February 4: Amiri Baraka and Outness 
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2015

January 
• January 31: 30 Amiri Baraka poems on YouTube
• January 28: Black Poetry after BAM (NEH Institute)
• January 25: Malcolm X -- the poetic anti-poet, who was also a poet
• January 19: Black men, poetry, music & inspiration
• January 17: Elizabeth Alexander as a crucial connector
• January 11: The presence of poetry awards and the absence of programming
• January 8: Student rappers & poets in an African American Literature course
• January 6: Poetry and Ingenuity: Tyehimba Jess and #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• January 5: Reading T. Jess, J. McCall, T. Medina, F. X. Walker & K. Young in 2015
• January 3: Danielle Hall, Margaret Walker, and #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• January 3: African American recipients of poetry prizes, awards (1987-2015)
• January 3: Why prizes and awards matter so much in poetry 
• January 3: A Notebook on prizes, awards & fellowships
• January 1: African American recipients of poetry prizes, awards & fellowships
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2014 

2014
December
• December 31: Blogging about Ai, Nikky Finney, Allison Joseph, Marilyn Nelson & Gwendolyn Brooks in 2014
• December 30: 100 poems read, annotated on Lit. Genius in 2014
• December 22: The Divergence of Tony Medina's Persona Poems
• December 21: Joshua Bennett's additional registers in #BlackPoetsSpeakOut 
• December 19: The Redmonds as gateways to poets
• December 19: Writing about black poetry vs. writing about rap 
• December 17: Tony Medina and the Top 5 (blues poets)
• December 16: Studying Poetry & Rap with Collegiate Black Men in 2014
• December 14: The year in African American poetry, 2014 
• December 11: Acknowledging the tremendous loss of Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou in 2014
• December 10: Amiri Baraka, Rachel Eliza Griffiths & #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• December 10: From Jonterri Gadson to Audre Lorde to Cheryl Clarke and back again
• December 8: Reading Kevin Young in 2014
• December 7: Evie Shockley, Amanda Johnston & #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• December 7: Jericho Brown takes you there in #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• December 7: A Notebook on #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• December 5: Maya Angelou, Kelly Norman Ellis, poetry & collegiate black women
• December 3: A Notebook on Lucille Clifton
• December 3: Lucille Clifton and #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• December 2: Notes on Tony Medina's Sound
• December 1: Blogging about poetry in November 2014

November 
• November 29: A few notes on #BlackPoetsSpeakOut
• November 28: A roundup of #BlackPoetsSpeakOut Selections
• November 28: Similes and metaphors in the Darren Wilson testimony
• November 10: Quietly listening to African American poetry at Venice Elementary School
• November 10: Dometi Pongo: Transporting students from Venice, IL, to NYC
• November 9: African American Lit. & Literary Studies: A Timeline, 1986-2014
• November 8: Blogging about poetry in October 2014
• November 6: A Notebook on SOS: A Black Arts Movement Reader 
• November 6: SOS, Poetry, and Black Arts Anthologies
• November 5: SOS, Amiri Baraka & the Black Arts Movement
• November 3: James Smethurst, SOS, and the continuity of black arts scholarship
• November 2: An Extended Note on A Black Arts Movement Reader
• November 2: Poetry & the politics of "black woman" metaphors
• November 1: Poetry, Jack Johnson & Black Men Aliases

October
• October 28: The Majestic in 17 Syllables   
• October 26: Returning (yet again) to Reginald Harris's Autogeography   
• October 25: Visual Histories of African American poetry volumes  
• October 18: Most Viewed African American Poems on Lit Genius   
• October 16: Sonnet Sequences vs. Poetry Anthology Patterns  
• October 13: Poetry & shifting views of Jack Johnson among collegiate black men      

September
• September 29: The Big Smoke Exhibit at Lovejoy    
• September 29: Poetry Listening Session
• September  25: Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" & Poetry Magazine (1959)
• September 23: Poetry, Jay Z, Jack Johnson & Conversations
• September  22: Terrance Hayes, Black Poets, and the MacArthur Fellowship
• September 22: The Illinois Poetry Correspondence Program
• September 21: Versions of Amiri Baraka's Reader
• September 2: Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke 
• September 2: Poetry is dead! Long live poetry! -- those growing shrinking audiences 
• September 1: Blogging about poetry in August 2014

August
• August 19: Jason McCall's & Jabari Asim's Mike Brown poems 
• August 7: African American poets and the covers of Poetry Magazine
• August 4: The Connectivity of Allison Joseph's My Father's Kites
• August 2: Frank X. Walker's poetry books, including a sequel 
• August 1: Notes on Amiri Baraka's Low Coup 
• August 1: Blogging about poetry in July 2014 

July 
• July 31: Select Graywolf Press Books by Black Writers, 2000 - 2013 
• July 30: The Size & Shape of Evie Shockley's books 
• July 29: Those Allison Joseph books
• July 28: Nikky Finney's Head Off & Split
• July 25: Mona Lisa Saloy's Red Beans and Ricely Yours
• July 23: From Unforgivable Blackness and Samuel Jackson to Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke
• July 23: James E. Cherry's books
• July 22: Ai's books & W. W. Norton & Company
• July 21: James Smethurst and scholarship on the Black Arts Movement 
• July 21: Nikki Giovanni's book cover appearances 
• July 21: Coverage of whether poetry matters 
• July 18: Gary Jackson's Missing You, Metropolis & Jason McCall's Dear Hero,
• July 17: The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader 
• July 16: Reading Marilyn Nelson this summer   
• July 2: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 1854 - 2014
• July 1: Charting $1.4 Million in awards, prizes for poets, 2000 - 2014
• July 1: Blogging about poetry in June 2014

June
• June 14: Contemporary black poetry and segregation
• June 9: Elevating Phenomenal Black Women poems
• June7: Michelle Obama as black woman poetry scholar
• June 4: Maya Angelou, Eugene B. Redmond, and me
• June 4: When did contemporary black poetry begin?
• June1: Blogging about poetry in May 2014

May
• May 27: The challenge of pinpointing contemporary signature poems  
• May 24: From Afrofuturism to Rap Genius: a timeline
• May 19: Long before she became the mayor's No. 1 adviser, Chirlane McCray was a poet
• May 5: Sonnets by the numbers
• May 1: Blogging about poetry in April 2014

April
• April 30: Becoming a Rap & Poetry Genius Teacher
• April 29: How The Big Smoke Restores Jack Johnson's Eloquence
• April 10: Contemporary Black Poets vs. Contemporary Black Poetry
• April 9: Trouble the Water, the Norton, and my views of African American literary studies in the late 1990s
• April 5: How Margaret Walker Disrupts Periodization in the Norton
• April 3: Lucille Clifton's Shifting Places in editions of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
• April 1: Blogging about poetry in March

March
• March 27: Jay Z, Jay Electronica, and a notable practice among black poets
• March 23: Jay Electronica, Jay Z and Black Consciousness
• March 16: Are contemporary black women poets more likely than men to write sonnets?
• March 9: Notebook on poetry about slavery & struggles for liberation 
• March 2: 15 poems & 15 volumes of poetry about black men 
• March 1: Blogging about poetry in February

February
• February 18: The art of annotating poems on Poetry Genius
• February 13: A 1960s/70s Poetry Puzzle: How to make poems black and blacker? 
• February 11: Notes toward a history of 21st-century black poetry 
• February 9: A month of coverage on Amiri Baraka 
• February 8: Black Arts poets as problem-finders 
• February 7: The Multiple (Poetic, Sonic) Registers of Amiri Baraka
• February 2: The challenge of becoming a major black poet 
• February 1: Blogging about poetry in January 2014

January
• January 27: Segregation, Black poets, and American poetry
• January 22: Black poetry vs. black poetry
• January 19: Poetry and poets at Amiri Baraka's homegoing 
• January 13: Amiri Baraka: Photogenic & Frequently Photographed
• January 10: Coverage on Amiri Baraka's passing 
• January 8: From Gwendolyn Brooks to Rita Dove to Natasha Trethewey to Tracy K. Smith
• January 7: Canonical African American poetry and the Word Cloud
• January 6: The rise of black poets during the 1970s and then again in the 1990s
• January 5: Shifts of labels concerning "black" poetry
• January 3: What if poets published sequels?
• January 3: What ifs & other poetry speculations
• January 1: Blogging about poetry in December 2013

2013
December
• December 30: Repeatedly anthologized poems by black poets
• December 30: Reading The Big Smoke with Collegiate Black Men 
• December 28: Reginald Harris's Autogeography (twice)
• December 23: Rita Dove and the rise of novel-like, character-driven volumes of poetry
• December 20: Sonnet Sequences and Contemporary African American Poetry
• December 16: The year in African American poetry, 2013
• December 13: Poetry Sightings in the "Invisible Child" series
• December 11: Do black men and women college students respond differently to poetry?
• December 8: 29 poems by and about black women (Fall 2013) 
• December 7: How Rap bypassed Poetry and became African American literature 
• December 5:  A Timeline of African American poets published in Poetry Magazine
• December 4: Rap Genius bibliography
• December 4: Poetry Genius bibliography
• December 4: Interview with Poetry Genius Editor, Austin Allen 
• December 2: 16 volumes of poetry published in 2013
• December 1: Blogging about Poetry in November 2013

November
• November 27: Contemporary African American Poetry -- supply & demand
• November 25: Poetry awards as "megablurbs"
• November 24: Remembering encounters with Wanda Coleman's work
• November 23: Sighting Poets over at the Poetry Foundation Blog
• November 11: Poetry, YouTube, and Racial Critique of the University
• November 3: Blogging about Poetry in October 2013
• November 1: The vulnerability of collegiate black men & a note on a Jack Johnson poem

October
• October 31: A Presentation on digital humanities and our poetry dataset
• October 31: Photos from the conference
• October 31: Erica Hunt: a critical cultural witness
• October 31: Black arts scholars at Penn State
• October 31: Conference Notes: U.S. and Afro-Caribbean Poetry at Penn State
• October 29: Becoming a Poetry Genius
• October 28: The Redmond Effect
• October 27: Allison Joseph and Sonnet Sequences
• October 27: Elizabeth Alexander as a link between generations of poets
• October 22: From Carver, Leadbelly & Brutal Imagination to 208 contemporary volumes
• October 22: A List of volumes featuring Persona poems (by year)
• October 22: Is Jack Johnson book a sports book in verse or verse about sports
• October 21: Kamilah Aisha Moon's She Has a Name
• October 21: Using Images to annotate Kamilah Aisha Moon's "Directions" on Poetry Genius
• October 21: Getting to Kamilah Aisha Moon's current volume and other work
• October 21: Kamilah Aisha Moon's other kinds of love poems
• October 21: A notebook on Kamilah Aisha Moon
• October 10: Evie Shockley’s unusual poem designs
• October 7: Small presses make the poetry world go round
• October 6: 85 publishers of 208 volumes of poetry, 2000 - 2013
• October 4: The 93 poets who authored the 208 volumes
• October 3: 208 volumes of poetry, 2000-2013 (by month) 
• October 2: The Cast of Characters referenced in Jason McCall's Dear Hero, 
• October 2: 208 volumes of poetry, 2000-2013 (by publisher)
• October 1: 208 volumes of poetry by African American poets, 2000-2013 (by name)
• October 1: Blogging about poetry in September 2013

September
• September 30:208 volumes of poetry by African American poets, 2000-2013 by year
• September 30: An Introduction to 208 volumes of poetry by African American poets, 2000-2013
• September 29: Poet Reginald Flood enters the realm of Douglass poems
• September 24: From the EBR Collection to the Underground Reading Room
• September 23: 10 Years of Poets Reading at SIUE
• September 21: How poet Evie Shockley transformed a mild-mannered literature teacher into a superhero 
• September 16: Becoming a RapGenius (Literature course for Spring 2014)
• September 13: Poet Marilyn Nelson's good idea: Adrian Matejka's "shadow boxing" poems
• September 10: The Durability of Amiri Baraka
• September 4: From Poet to Novelist to Poet: Richard Wright's Haiku

August
• August 30: Writing poetry to be read/published vs. Writing poetry to be heard
• August 29: Things we need to know prior to reading poetry by Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess, and Adrian Matejka
• August 28:  "Why do we have to read poetry?": Here are 7 Reasons 
• August 28: Poems by and about Black Women for a Fall 2013 course
• August 27: The economies of spoken word poetry and print-based poetry (on college campuses)
• August 27: Spoken Word Poetry and the growth of consciousness (in Mississippi)
• August 26: From rap listeners to poetry readers
• August 22: How Arnold Adoff helped nurture an early interest in black poetry
• August 22: More on 1970 as a defining year in the history of black literature
• August 21: What if poet Evie Shockley is a Sci-fi writer?
• August 20: Reginald Harris, Autogeography, and playing across the page
• August 20: 10-plus Years Earlier: From Reginald Harris's Autogeography to 10 Tongues
• August  20: Some volumes of poetry published in 2013
• August 19: Poetry and the gateway experience
• August 16: A Notebook on bad men in poetry
• August 16:  A brief timeline of bad men in poetry
• August 13: Tyehimba Jess and 50 other poets: a guide
• August 12: 30-plus poems (and raps) in a course on folklore and afrofuturism
• August 10: An underground curriculum in the study of black poetry
• August 9:  The Speculative qualities of poems about slavery
• August 8: Lively conversations about poetry with multigenerations of black men
• August 8: Notes on extended conversations with black men about poetry
• August 7: Covering poetry about slavery & liberation
• August 5: Kevin Young's short lines & big books of poetry
• August 2: Black arts era poetry as a genre
• August 1: Blogging about Poetry July

July
• July 31: Militant poets, funny poems
• July 30: Poets against poetry?
• July 29: Photos from Week 2 of African American Poetry Institute
• July 29: Photos from Eugene B. Redmond's visit to the Poetry Institute
• July 23: 40 Black Arts era poems
• July 21 A Black Arts Timeline, 1965 - 1976 
• July 21: A Notebook on Black Arts Poetry
• July 20: Initial notes on Jason McCall's Dear Hero,
• July 18: When my RapGenius activities become less fun, though purposeful
• July 18: LeRoi Jones vs. Amiri Baraka vs. Black poetry
• July 15: An Ex-Slave's Letter Arrives on RapGenius
• July 11: Mapping those Ohio poets
• July 10: Notebook on the Demographics of African American poetry
• July 9: Covering poetry: essays vs. blog entries vs. annotations on RapGenius 
• July 8: 5 Reasons some contemporary poets gain, maintain recognition
• July 5: From Corinthan Hall to RapGenius: The Evolutions of Frederick Douglass's July 4th Speech
• July 5: Does the Pulitzer award for poetry favor "younger" black poets?
• July 3: Tyehimba Jess, Allison Joseph, and those sonnet sequences
• July 2: 5 Reasons so many contemporary poets remain largely unknown 
• July 2: Blogging about Poetry in June

June
• June 29: The Afterlives of Ai's & Lucille Clifton's Poetry 
• June 28: The Prolific Frank X. Walker
• June 27: Poetry, Science, and Vocabulary
• June 26: Sister-scientist astronomers remix that classic Wu on RapGenius
• June 25: Analyzing the poetry/lyrics of high school students on RapGenius
• June 25: From RapGenius to Science Genius
• June19: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" and Metadata
• June 17: Poets and Big Data: The Case of Amiri Baraka
• June 15: Why are all the black poets sitting together over there?
• June 14: Reading Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka...together
• June 11: Interpretation through Illustration: "A Song in the Front Yard" by Gwendolyn Brooks 
• June 9: Poets by state of birth
• June 8: Marking up Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

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: The Fear of Explaining Evie Shockley's Approaches to Design
• 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: Fom 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 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: 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: 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 8: Poster for A 1974 Poetry Festival
• December 7: Notes on Adrian Matejka's "Fisticuffs"
• December 6: Background on Eugene B. Redmond's Extensive Photographic Work
• 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


November
• 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: 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 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 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 13: Eric Ruckh & Jeffrey Skoblow Celebrate "Howl"
• October 12: Blogging about Evie Shockley
• 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 4: Blogging about Allison Joseph's Work
• October 3: Allison Joseph Week
• October 2: Amiri Baraka, Lil Wayne & Mainstream, Underground Audiences
• October 2: The Rising Visibility of Black Women Poets

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: 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: 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 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 18: Tara Betts’s poem “Switch”
• September 15: Following Tara Betts
• 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 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
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