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Gwendolyn

Brooks

Introduction to Etheridge Knight at the Library of Congress

9

Etheridge

Knight

The Sun Came

10

Thomas

McGrath

Welcome

11

Etheridge

Knight

On the Oral Nature of Poetry

12

Johnnie G.

Roberts

For Etheridge

17

Aaren

Yeatts Perry

Mudsong for Mawdad

18

Eleanor

Wilner

A Green Aubade for Etheridge

19

Ron

Price

Shines Theology

21

Ron

Price

From the Tallaharchie Bridge

22

Ellen

Slack

Trouble Over

23

Etheridge

Knight

Bones of My Father

25

ave

jeanne

Motions/movements movemenst

27

Michael S.

Weaver

Life In a Steel Mill

28

Simon J.

Ortiz

The Unfolding Mystery

30

Robert

Bly

Hearing Etheridge Knight

31

William

Stafford

Following Etheridge into “The Idea of Ancestry”

36

Jeanne

Murray Walker

The National Enquirer Headline Writer Calls Etheridge Knight to Interview Him About Gravity

37

Lou

Camp

An Interview with Etheridge Knight

39

Joseph

Bruchac

Seeing Through Walls: Etheridge Knight and American Prison Poetry

45

Etheridge

Knight

Cell Song

48

Elaine

Terranova

A Schoolgirl Writes to a Prisoner

49

William

Van Wert

Holmesburg

51

Lynne

Savitt

Sixx Things to Know If You Love a Convict

53

j

anaporte

The Spaces Between

55

Sanford

Pinsker

Belly Song For Etheridge Knight

56

John Paul

Minarik

Out of the Dark

57

Galway

Kinnell

Brother of My Heart

59

Etheridge

Knight

A Poem to Galway Kinnel

60

Etheridge

Knight

For Langston Hughes

62

James

Wright

On a Phrase from Southern Ohio

63

D. Brett

McHale

For a Black Poet’s Arrival in a Small Town

65

Myra

Shapiro

The Poker Game

66

Carolann

Russell

The Black Brother Poems

67

Tom

Koontz

Etheridge

70

Etheridge

Knight

Upon Your Leaving

73

Etheridge

Knight

Feeling Fucked Up

74

Frank

Allen

“A Grin and a Grace of Whirling”:

Eteridge Knight’s Poetry

75

J

Kates

Letter to Etheridge

79

Joanne

Seltzer

Upon Reading a Poem by Etheridge Knight

80

Etheridge

Knight

Hip/Notes to My/Self

81

Lamont B

Steptoe

For Etheridge Knight

82

Greg

Geleta

Poem for the New Age

83

Greg

Geleta

Etheridge in High School

85

Etheridge

Knight

Various Protestations form Various People

86

 

Craig Czury’s 4th Graders

For Etheridge

87

Phyllis

Tickle

For Etheridge’s Hat

89

Carol Ann

Robertson

Some Words of Advice

90

Etheridge

Knight

Circling the Daughter

91

Etheridge

Knight

The Keeping of a Promise

92

David

Ignatow

The Life

93

David

Ignatow

Epitaph for a City

93

David

Ignatow

From Time to Time

94

David

Ignatow

Surface

94

Donald

Hall

Learning a Language: Etheridge Knight

95

Etheridge

Knight

Who Knows???

97

Dennis

Brutus

For the Prisoners in South Africa

99

Etheridge

Knight

Things Awfully Quiet in America

100

Etheridge

Knight

Memo #75

101

Richard

Kostelanetz

Partitions

102

Clark E

White

Etheridge Knight, The Big Word Man

105

Clark E

White

The Stone Rollers

110

Reuben M

Jackson

Edward

111

Tina

Barr

For Etheridge

113

Russell S

Endo

Ode to a Poet

115

Christopher

Gilbert

The Breathing/in/an Emancipatory Space

117

Etheridge

Knight

Haiku

136

Jared

Carter

Sunnyland Slim Remembers the Muse

137

Alice

Friman

Last Riff

138

Lenard D

Moore

Message to Etheridge Knight

139

Etheridge

Knight

Dearly/-Beloved/-Mizzee

141

Elizabeth

McKim

Muse

142

Louis

McKee

Last Call

143

Eugene

Howard

If I Could I Would and I’m Working On It

145

Ellen

Slack

Photographs, front and back covers, 22, 29, 140

 

Elizabeth

McKim

Photographs 3, 72, 98, 114, 135

 

Lamont B.

Steptoe

Photographs 54, 104, 144, 147

 

Louis

Camp

Editor

 

Joanna

DiPaolo

Editor

 

Louis

McKee

Editor

 

Joanna

Dipaolo

Production

 

Jerry

Hagins

Production

 

Ellen

Slack

Production