POETRY
Chapbooks
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The Murdered and Missing Women of Juárez, Mexico: A Crown of
Sonnets.
Peoria, IL: MTP, 2009. PayPal
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Dancing in the Dark.
Peoria, IL: MTP, 2006. PayPal
Anthologies
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Women.Period
Eds. Julia Watts, Parneshia
Jones, and Jo Ruby. Spinster Ink, 2008."Blood Ritual."
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Risk, Courage, and Women
Eds. Karen Walden, Laura Labatt, and Janice Brazil.
University of North Texas Press, 2007"Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage-A Found Poem," "The Dark and
Gray of Morning Light," "Dancing in the Dark" (reprint), "Standing
Ground," "Unlearning Not to Speak," and "No Position is a Position."
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Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked)
Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait
Ed. Nagueyalti
Warren. Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, 2008.
"Tongues in My Mouth" (reprint).
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Bread and Steel: Illinois Poets Reading
Their Work
Audio CD. Ed. Kevin Stein. Illinois Poet Laureate
Publication, 2006. Track 24.
"Coming to Know Things."
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Cave Canem Anthology 2004
Baltimore, MD: Cave Canem, 2005. 69.
"Ode on the First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia."
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Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of
Contemporary African American Poetry
Ed. Keith Gilyard.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1997. 292-96."Las Flores para Una Nina Negra," "Sandra," "Tongues in My Mouth,"
and "Dancing in the Dark."
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"Planting Shirt."
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle
and Other Modem Verse. 2nd ed. Stephen Dunning
et al,
eds. Glenview, IL: ScottForesman, 1995. 111. |
Literary Journals
"Ten Words Liberate a Life."
Permafrost (December 2003):
77.
"America Declares War on Girls."
Spoon River Poetry Review
XXVII.2 (December 2002): 77.
"White Lines."
Clackamas Literary Review IV.11 (Fall 2000):
222-223.
“Indigo Blue.”
Poet 4.1 (Summer 1992)” 12.
“In Mother’s House.”
Rambunctious Review Vol. VII (1990): 22.
SCHOLARLY
Books
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Language and Image in Reading-Writing Classroom: Teaching Vision
Mahwah., NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
Co-editor with Kristie S. Fleckenstein and Linda T. Calendrillo.
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African-American Literature: An
Anthology
Second Edition (including
Teacher’s Manual).
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Co-editor with Jesse Perry, Jr.
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African-American
Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama.
(Including
Teacher’s Manual.) Lincolnwood, IL:
National Textbook Company, 1993.
Co-editor with Jesse Perry, Jr. |
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Reflections on a Gift of
Watermelon Pickle and Other Modern Verse.
Glenview, IL: ScottForesman, 1995.
Contributing editor with Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, Naomi
Shihab Nye, and Keith Gilyard. |
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