Powerlines

by Rodriguez, Luis; Warr, Michael; Parson-Nesbitt, Julie

• ISBN13: 9781882688227
• ISBN10: 1882688228
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Tia Chucha Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(13)
My Neighbors	13	(1)
Inka Alasade
The Sun King (1974)	14	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Three Winter Songs	15	(3)
Michael Anania
Better Than The Movies	18	(1)
Eduardo Arocho
The Writer At Her Work	19	(1)
Beatriz Badikian
Traveling Black	20	(3)
Jim Banks
In Town	23	(3)
Amiri Baraka
Night Crawl	26	(2)
Mary Shen Barnidge
At The Stove	28	(2)
Enid Baron
Poem For Wicker Park Yuppies (A True Story)	30	(2)
Kim Berez
Sugar Blue, Harmonica Man	32	(1)
Tara Betts
Two Dedications	33	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Carnality	36	(1)
Dennis Brutus
Hell Night	37	(3)
Lisa Buscani
For My Child Who Became A Man In His Thirteenth Year	40	(1)
Ana Castillo
I Could Not Swallow The Lake	41	(2)
Andrea L. Change
Millennium, Five Songs	43	(2)
Marilyn Chin
Cloud	45	(1)
Sandra Cisneros
Twentieth Century Nod Out (2)	46	(1)
Wanda Coleman
Gabacha Encantada	47	(1)
Carlos Cortez
El Comandante	48	(1)
Carlos Cumpian
After A Reading At A Black College	49	(1)
Toi Derricotte
Mysteries	50	(1)
John Dickson
The Jungle	51	(1)
Denise Duhamel
Maureen Seaton
A Cigarette's Iris in the Eye of a Candle	52	(2)
Martin Espada
Harry's House	54	(2)
Daniel Ferri
A Poem For My Wife While She Sleeps	56	(4)
Tony Fitzpatrick
No One Wears Hats Anymore	60	(1)
Suzanne Frank
From ``A,'' the End of the Earth	61	(2)
Cynthia Gallaher
Magnolia	63	(2)
Lucia Cordell Getsi
Manifesto Discovered Under a Trillium	65	(2)
Reginald Gibbons
``the blooz man''	67	(5)
Reggie Gibson
The Ladder	72	(1)
Diane Glancy
It Was A Turtle	73	(2)
Ray Gonzalez
Fragments of the Other	75	(4)
Kimiko Hahn
Home Depot	79	(2)
Melanie Hamblin
This Is My Heart	81	(1)
Joy Harjo
Nebula	82	(1)
Jennifer Harris
Nautilus	83	(1)
Mary K. Hawley
worship	84	(1)
Kurt Heintz
2 Gals From Chicago	85	(1)
Batya G.Hernandez
Workfare	86	(2)
Jack Hirschman
Remnants Performance (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Poetry) Groningen (Cafe Verla) 10/19/98 3:21 am	88	(1)
Bob Holman
Canticus Narcissus	89	(2)
Paul Hoover
The Tongue of Drunks	91	(3)
Jean Howard
Elvis In The Underworld	94	(3)
Mark Ingebretsen
Rainha Nzingha Reflects on the Absence of Justice	97	(3)
Angela Jackson
John lee: detroit special	100	(2)
Tyehimba Jess
The Poet's Mother	102	(1)
Richard Jones
Fin-de-Siecle Blues	103	(5)
Carolyn Kizer
Meditations on an Olmec Head	108	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
blood, water, pen, sword	109	(1)
C. J. Laity
learning to swim	110	(1)
Quraysh Ali Lansana
The Other Hours	111	(1)
Li-Young Lee
My Father Is An Excellent Dog	112	(2)
Billy Lombardo
Easter Sunday Morning, 1973: Maxwell Street, Chicago	114	(1)
Chet Long
Mistress of Nothing	115	(1)
Olivia Maciel
if you lose your optimism you're in serious trouble	116	(1)
Haki R. Madhubuti
just aim and shoot a love poem	117	(2)
Mario
Loneliness	119	(1)
Demetria Martinez
Capitalist Poem #55	120	(1)
Campbell McGrath
For Your Mother, Whom I've Never Met	121	(2)
Marci Merola
Twin Heartbeats	123	(2)
Effie Mihopoulos
The Fractal Geometry of Love	125	(2)
Patricia Monaghan
Fasting	127	(1)
J. M. Morea
The Peach Pit	128	(1)
Kyoko Mori
Mater Dolorosa	129	(1)
Sulima Q. Moya
Halcyon Days	130	(1)
Lisel Mueller
Red Dress	131	(2)
Simone Muench
Miss Saigon Protest Performance Queens	133	(1)
David Mura
One Day In The North Shore	134	(1)
Raul Nino
My Neighbor at 98	135	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Jellyfish	136	(1)
Dwight Okita
You Are The One Who Names Us All	137	(2)
Julie Parson-Nesbitt
Family Values	139	(2)
Marge Piercy
Roses	141	(2)
Deborah Pintonelli
Sharecropper	143	(2)
Sterling Plumpp
Fighting Fire	145	(2)
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Crosses	147	(3)
Rohan B Preston
Confession	150	(1)
Mike Puican
Weight	151	(1)
Eugene B. Redmond
In Patagonia	152	(2)
Adrienne Rich
60/Blue Island	154	(2)
Joe Roarty
My Nature Is Hunger	156	(1)
Luis J. Rodriguez
Marvin Gardens	157	(1)
Cin Salach
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim Pilgrimage	158	(1)
Melysha Sargis
Freedom Baptist	159	(1)
Angela Shannon
In Praise of Some Women	160	(2)
John Sheehan
This Year's Flu	162	(1)
Barry Silesky
On Being Unable to See the Sense of Placing Something Beautiful in the Lines of This Poem	163	(2)
Marc Smith
The Deer	165	(1)
Patricia Smith
Elk Grove Village	166	(1)
John Starrs
Blue Country	167	(1)
Hugh Steinberg
Herzog	168	(3)
Christopher Stewart
Mr. Orange	171	(1)
Marvin Tate
I Have Seen	172	(1)
Piri Thomas
Gray Day In January In La Jolla: 1997	173	(2)
Quincy Troupe
Twist	175	(1)
Mark Turcotte
Julia de Burgos	176	(2)
Frank Varela
Half Moon Gate	178	(1)
Martha Modena Vertreace
Warriors	179	(1)
Michael Warr
To Malcolm X on His Second Coming	180	(3)
Afaa Michael Weaver
Any Day in June	183	(1)
Larry Winfield
About the Poets	184	(15)
About the Guild Complex	199