A Notebook on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

I've produced some entries on the recently released third edition of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2014) edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith.  The entries address what the collection might mean for literary studies here at SIUE, black poetry studies, and African American literary studies in general.

• Contemporary Black Poets vs. Contemporary Black Poetry
• Trouble the Water, the Norton, and my views of African American literary studies in the late 1990s  
• How Margaret Walker Disrupts Periodization in the Norton  
• Lucille Clifton's Shifting Places in editions of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
• 6 Reasons why the Norton Anthology of African American Literature Matters 
• The Norton and the challenge of covering the contemporary period of African American literature 

Related: 
• The Norton's Trouble with Black Arts Poets [second edition]
• African American Literature @ SIUE