Selected Poems
Check this link for the selected poems of the week.

Persona and Voice

In Books:
Russell, "Superman in the Nursing Home" (in SLAM 75)

In Packet:
Sexton, "Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator"
Sexton, "Her Kind" hear audio
Rich, "Mourning Picture"
Graham, "Self Portrait as the Gesture Between Them"
Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Pound, "The River Merchant's Wife"
Grahn, "My Name is Judith"
Revard, "Birch Canoe"
Smith, Patricia "Undertaker"
Smith, Patricia "Skinhead" hear audio on the e-poets site (click on "listen to audio" and then on "Skinhead")
Ai, "The Prisoner"
Ai, "James Dean"
Plath, "Lady Lazarus" hear audio

The Beats

In Packet:
Ginsberg, "Howl" hear audio of Part III
Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" and "America" see video
Corso, "I Am 25"
Snyder, "Praise for Sick Women"
Di Prima, "The Practice of Magical Evocation"
LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, "In Memory of Radio"
LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, "Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today"

The Black Arts Movement

In Packet:
Patterson, "26 Ways of Looking at a Blackman"
Brooks, "Riot" and
Brooks, "To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals"
Evans, "Status Symbol"
Baraka, "SOS" and
Baraka, "Black Art"
Cortez, "How Long Has Trane Been Gone"
Giovanni, "For Saundra"
Giovanni, "Beautiful Black Men"
Giovanni, "Nikki-Rosa"

Slam Poetry

In Books:
ALOUD
Perdomo, "Nigger-Reecan Blues" (111-113)
Estep, "Sex Goddess" (62-64)
Sundiata, "The Philosophy of Kool" (284-6)
Angelsey, "Holding Him Not as a Child" (390)

SLAM
Glazner, "Por Qué Está Lorca Muerto" (31-4)
Danley, "Funeral Like Nixon's" (42-4)
Betts, "Rock'n'Roll Be a Black Woman" (47-8)
King, "Bring Them Back" (93-4)
Moosey, "Anaconda: A Kaddish" (99-101)
Gibson, "Jimi Christ" (162)
Sia, "Manifesto" (173-6)
Quickley, "Calcium Rings" (195-8)

Poetry, Politics, Identity

In Books:
ALOUD
Cabico, "Check One" (47-8)
Arroyo, "I'm a Nuyorican" (391-2)

SLAM
Chin, Justin "Chinese Restaurant" (126-7)
Holbrook, "Chicks Up Front" (148-150)
Procope, "Untitled" (204-6)
Chin, Staceyann "I Don't Want to Slam" (206-8)
Herrera, "My Pain Keeps Me Regular"(209-11)