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“We Are Each Other’s Harvest” from “Paul Robeson” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
Queen Sugar, Chapter 10. Excerpt(s) from Queen Sugar: A Novel by Natalie Baszile, copyright © 2014 by Natalie Baszile. Used by permission of Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Those Winter Sundays.” Copyright © 1996 by Robert Hayden, from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden by Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Excerpt(s) from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, copyright © 1977 by Toni Morrison. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Fearless” by Tim Seibles. Published by permission of the author.
“Barking” copyright © 1992 by Lenard D. Moore and reprinted with the permission of the author, and published by St. Andrew College Press, Laurinburg, North Carolina.
“How to Make Rain” from Most Way Home, copyright © 1995 by Kevin Young. Reprinted with permission from Steerforth Press.
“Dispossessed: Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It” by Lizzie Presser. Published by ProPublica, July 15, 2019.
“Yellowjackets” from Magic City copyright © 1992 Yusef Komunyakaa. Published by Wesleyan University.
“Call Me by My Name” by Harryette Mullen, reprinted with permission from the author.
“Swarm” by Tonya Foster copyright © 2003, “A Grammar of Walking,” Nocturnes (Winter 2003): 108. Published with permission from the author. The poem also appears, in a different form, in A Swarm of Bees in High Court (New York: Belladonna Press, September 2015).
“To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” from Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay, copyright © 2015. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
“Frame” from Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis, compilation copyright © 2015 by Robin Coste Lewis. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Handed the Rain” from Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In by Ed Robeson, copyright © 1995 by Ed Robeson. Reprinted by permission of Ed Robeson and the University of Iowa Press.
“Remember.” Copyright © 1983 by Joy Harjo, from She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“A Love Letter to Future Generations” by Naima Penniman, published by permission from the author.
Lucille Clifton, “cutting greens” from The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 1974, 1987 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of BOA Editions Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.
“Butter.” Copyright © 1996 by Elizabeth Alexander, first published in Body of Life by Tia Chucha Press and reprinted in Crave Radiance copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Alexander, published by Graywolf Press. The work is used with the permission of the author.