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.