Giant steps: the new generation of African American writers

Kevin Young: The black psychic hotline, or the future of African American writing

Elizabeth Alexander: What I'm telling you ; Nineteen ; Frank Willis ; Stella by starlight ; Deadwood Dick ; Overture: Watermelon City ; Race ; Blues ; Feminist poem number one

Hilton Als : from The women

Anthony Butts: A Poe story ; Becoming the ghost ; Self-portrait with Clark Street Cadillac

Detroit, one a.m. ; Machines ; The loudest sound

Edwidge Danticat: The book of the dead

Thomas Sayers Ellis: View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School ; Fatal April ; Being there ; Hush yo mouf ; Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ; Atomic bride

Carolyn Ferrell: Can you say my name?

Ruth Forman: Haiku I ; The Williams side of the family ; Blue poem III ; Show me the ankles of justice ; Cancer ; Momma died when my wisdom teeth come in

Even If I was Cleopatra Jones

Terrance Hayes: Shafro ; I want to be fat ; Neckbones ; Candied yams ; What I am ; Goliath poem ; When the neighbors fight ; Some luminous distress ; Summer

Allison Joseph: Salt ; Learning the blues ; Family life ; Home girl talks girlhood ; On being told I don't speak like a Black person

John Keene: Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949 ; Cecil's consolation (1942) ; One revolution ; Winter elegy ; Why I love my father.

Randall Kenan: Now why come that is?

Harryette Mullen: She landed on the moon ; Roadmap ; from Muse & Drudge ; Susuki method ; Black Nikes

Kevin Powell: Letter to my father

Claudia Rankine: American light ; Him ; Overview is a place ; The quotidian ; This life

Darieck Scott: 1979

Danzy Senna: The land of Beulah

Reginald Shepherd: The difficult music ; Desire and the slave trade ; Antibody ; S'il meurt ; Icarus on Fire Island ; At the grave of Hart Crane ; Skin trade

Natasha Tarpley: from Girl in the mirror

Natasha Trethewey: At the station ; Speculation, 1939 ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Flounder ; Saturday matinee ; Bellocq's Ophelia

Rebecca Walker: Higher yellow

Anthony Walton: from Mississippi

Philippe Wamba: Of prophets and madmen

Colson Whitehead: The all-night bodega of souls

Daniel Jerome Wideman: Singing sankofa

Joe Wood: The yellow Negro

Kevin Young: Nineteen seventy-five ; No offense ; Negative ; Charlie Chan on horn ; Langston Hughes ; Homage to Phillis Wheatley.