Acolytes by Giovanni, Nikki -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Front Matter How You Gonna Save ’Em? 1st Stanza

We Gather Spirit Rising A Prayer for Nina Howl (for Nina Simone) Sing Me Home The Rosa Parks The Seamstress of Montgomery The Death of Innocence We Go On The Storyteller’s Silence Underground Railroad Harlem Stomp Creative Writing—Poetry Saturday Days Quilts On a Rainy Autumn Day I Am Now My Own Grandmother Criaskew’s Family Paint Me Like I Am The Change of Life I Am in Mexico I Am Mighty Mouse Today: For Mari Evans After the Drowning

How You Gonna Save ’Em? 2nd Stanza

Tennessean by Birth I Am in the Water My Grandmother Remembering Gwen Rap-Blues’ Child A Song for June Jordan Missing June Jordan For the Lyric Theatre Doors and Keys For Marion on Her 90th Birthday Brave Man Dancing The Antidote A Daughter Comes Home Brother Brother Brother Jackie Robinson Is Dead

For Cleveland “Pepi” Parker 3rd

Diamonds in the Rough Haiku Don’t Hold Me Back The First Dream Letter to the Editor The Old Ladies Give a Party Hotel Rooms The Most Wonderful Soup in the World My First Memory (of Librarians) A Poem For My Librarian, Mrs. Long It’s Spring How You Gonna Save ’Em? 3rd Stanza Raid This Joint I’m an American Blues for Love Indulge Serious Poems A Higher Level of Poetry American Conversation The Yellow Jacket Ten for Toni Drinking Snowflakes When Rainbows Laugh A Promise of Spring We Write Masks The Best Ever Midnight Snack Plenty of Horn The Leaves Sanity (To Be Continued) Good for Us First Date Home A Library For Summer Your Pillow I Don’t Want to Love I Am Your Allergy

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