|a Of poetry & protest : |b from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin / |c edited and compiled by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr. Redmond Sweet pea / Ishmael Reed Not brought up / Ed Roberson Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia) / Sonia Sanchez x marks the spot / Evie Shockley At 59 / Tim Seibles NO WOUND OF EXIT / Patricia Smith Duende / Tracy K. Ethelbert Miller We are not responsible / Harryette Mullen Cells and window : after work by neogeo painter Peter Halley / Marilyn Nelson I hear the shuffle of the people's feet / Sterling Plumpp Poetic reflections enroute to, and during, the funeral and burial of Henry Dumas, poet, / Eugene B. Harris New rules of the road / Reginald Harris Some luminous distress (for Betty Shabazz) / Terrance Hayes Fannie (for Fannie Lou Hamer) / Angela Jackson Rose colored city / Major Jackson Infernal / Tyehimba Jess Saltimbanque / Patricia Spears Jones Tallahatchiue lullabye, baby / Douglas Kearney History lessons / Yusef Komunyakaa statement on the killing of patrick dorismond / Quraysh Ali Lansana Great wait / Haki Madhubuti on continuing to struggle / devorah major 10 race koans as presented to Charles Johnson on the morning of J/ E. Dungy Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady Superhero / Kelly Norman Ellis Identity repairman / Thomas Sayers Ellis Left / Nikky Finney Daytonm, OH, '50s & '60s / C.S. Narrative: Ali, a poem in twelve rounds / Elizabeth Alexander Wise 5 / Amiri Baraka Emmett Till / Wanda Coleman New day / Kwame Dawes Note on my son's face / Toi Derricotte Enactment / Rita Dove Conspiracy / Camille T.

Of Poetry and Protest by Philip Cushway