From the Book - First edition.
The dew breaker / Edwidge Danticat
from Erasure / Percival Everett
from RL's Dream / Walter Mosley
from The Harris men / R. M. Johnson
The boy-fish / David Anthony Durham
The way I see it (from A day late and and a dollar short) / Terry McMillan
from What looks like crazy on an ordinary day / Pearl Cleage
Mourning glo / Lori Bryant-Woolridge
from These same long bones / Gwendolyn M. Parker
Your child can be a model! / David Haynes
from Song of the water saints / Nelly Rosario
Miss Prissy and the penitentiary / Yolanda Joe
Luminous days / Mitchell Jackson
from Only twice I've wished for heaven / Dawn Turner Trice
Sonny-boy (from Pictures of a dying man) / Agymah Kamau
from Water marked / Helen Elaine Lee
from October Suite / Maxine Clair
Like trees, walking / Ravi Howard
Weight / John Edgar Wideman
from Thieves' paradise / Eric Jerome Dickey
from P. G. County / Connie Briscoe
My heavenly father / Dana Crum
Lion's blood / Steven Barnes
The knowing / Tananarive Due
Luscious (from Loving Donovan) / Bernice L. McFadden
from Crawfish dreams / Nancy Rawles
Press and curl / Tayari Jones
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies (from The river where blood is born) / Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Draggin' the dog / Anika Nailah
Museum guide (from Black girl in Paris) / Shay Youngblood
School (from Miss Black America) / Veronica Chambers
Ghost story (from Slapboxing with Jesus) / Victor D. Lavalle
My mama, your mama (from Imani all mine) / Connie Porter
from Rail under my back / Jeffery Renard Allen
from Dakota grand / Kenji Jasper
The dinner party / E. Lynn Harris
Meeting Frederick (from Douglass's Women) / Jewell Parker Rhodes
Eva and Isaiah (from Ain't nobody's business if I do)
from Discretion / Elizabeth Nunez
An orange line train to Ballston / Edward P. Jones
Lucielia Louise Turner (from The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
$100 and nothing! / J. California Cooper
Are you experienced? / Danzy Senna
Group solo / Scott Poulson Bryant
from Breathing room / Patricia Elam
Love (from Drop) / Mat Johnson
Antiquated Desires / Cris Burks
from Rest for the weary / Arthur Flowers
from Church folk / Michele Andrea Bowen
from Commitment / Thomas Glave
Black and boo / Michael Kayode
Rossonian days / William Henry Lewis
Helter skelter / Marita Golden
Summer comes later / Robert Fleming
The bulging bag / Unoma N. Azuah
from Sap rising / Christine Lincoln
Fire: an origin tale / Faith Adiele
Tan Son Nuht Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (from The land south of the clouds) / Genaro Ky Ly Smith
Between black and white / Nicole Bailey-Williams
Hincty (from The chosen people / Karen Bates
To Haiti or to hell / Alexs D. Pate
Mirror image / Amy Du Bois Barnett
from What you owe me / Bebe Moore Campbell
Will not be televised / Jewell Gomez
Fear of floating / Bryan Gibson
from The queen of Harlem / Brian Keith Jackson
My girl Mona / Crystal Wilkinson.