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Event: Aflame and Unafraid: Books

Information and resources about the Aflame & Unafraid events series, Amnda Gorman, and the poem "The Hill We Climb"

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Far from exhaustive, this list has been curated to demonstrate how poets and poetry have shaped national conversations and movements across the globe through the genre's power to inspire, act, and heal. We have also included several poets Amanda Gorman has mentioned who have been influential in her work and identity as a poet.

Library Books A-J

African American Dramatists by Emmanuel S. Nelson
ISBN: 9780313052897
Publication Date: 2004-10-30
See the chapter on Ntozake Shange (pages 387-407) for a profile and listing of her (then current) body of work.
African American Literature by Tyrone Williams; Salem Press Editors (Editor)
ISBN: 9781587654381
Publication Date: 2008-12-03
See Ntozake Shange's "The big sea, and, I wonder as I wander," "Free enterprise," and "The piano lesson."
Behind the Lines by Philip Metres
ISBN: 9781587297380
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
The Best American Poetry 2011 by David Lehman (Editor); Kevin Young (Editor)
ISBN: 9781439181508
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9780883781050
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Brown Brilliance
Video Interview. Program focuses on the work of poet and actor Maya Angelou, whose [then] new book of poems 'And Still I Rise' was recently published.
Catch the Fire!!! by Derrick I. Gilbert (Editor); Tony Medina
ISBN: 9781573226547
Publication Date: 1998-02-01
See Haki R. Madhubuti's Interview with Ntozake Shange and "Love" by Ntozake Shange
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by Maghiel van Crevel
ISBN: 9789047442738
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780679643258
Publication Date: 2004-09-21
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780393040906
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton; Toni Morrison (Foreword by); Kevin Young (Editor); Michael S. Glaser (Editor)
ISBN: 9781942683001
Publication Date: 2015-06-20
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780679428954
Publication Date: 1994-09-13
The Contemporaneous Reception of Phyllis Wheatley: Newspaper and Magazine Notices During the Years of Fame, 1765-1774 by Mukhtar Ali Isani
Contemporary Black Biography by L. Mpho Mabunda
ISBN: 9780810357396
Publication Date: 1995
See chapter: "Uplifting role model for black women" by Ntozake Shange (page 222)
Cries of the Spirit by Marilyn Sewell (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807068137
Publication Date: 1991-02-01
See excerpt from "Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen" by Ntozake Shange
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry by Susan B. A. Somers-Willett
ISBN: 9780472027088
Publication Date: 2010-07-23
Encyclopedia of African-American writing : five centuries of contribution : trials & triumphs of writers, poets, publications and organizations by Bryan Conn, Tara Bynum
See Phyllis Wheatley's profile on page 799; Letter to Rev. Samson Occum February 11, 1774 (page 880); To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (page 884)
Fifty Black Women Who Changed America by Amy Alexander
ISBN: 9781559724784
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
See chapter on Phyllis Wheatley
The Grey Album by Kevin Young
ISBN: 9781555976071
Publication Date: 2012-03-13

Library Books I-Z

I Am Your Sister by Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor); Johnnetta Betsch Cole (Editor); Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195341485
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
In Montgomery by Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9780883782323
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Making Something Happen by Michael Thurston
ISBN: 9780807875001
Publication Date: 2003-01-14
The Matter of Capital by Christopher S. Nealon
ISBN: 9780674061163
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Maya Angelou : poem at Clinton inaugural
Full video of Maya Angelou delivering her Inaugural Poem.
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems by José E. Limón; José E. Limón
ISBN: 9780520911871
Publication Date: 1992-07-24
Poetry & responsibility by Neil Corcoran
ISBN: 9781781385876
Poetry and Story Therapy by Geri Giebel Chavis
ISBN: 9780857003119
Publication Date: 2011-08-15
Poetry and the Police by Robert Darnton
ISBN: 9780674059276
Publication Date: 2011-03-15
Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr
ISBN: 9780820340111
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Poets and Politics: Speculation on Political Roles and Attitudes in West African Poetry by Thomas Knipp
Pow Wow by Ishmael Reed (Editor); Carla Blank (As told to)
ISBN: 9781568583402
Publication Date: 2009-01-27
See "Decoy" by Ntozake Shange
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9780060931742
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Twentieth Century Theatre: a Sourcebook by Richard Drain (Editor)
ISBN: 9781134864751
Publication Date: 2002-09-11
See Chapter 80 "Unrecovered Losses/Black Theatre Traditions" (1979) by Ntozake Shange
Undersong by Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780393033953
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
Unsettling America by Maria Mazziotti Gillan (Editor); Jennifer Gillan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780140237788
Publication Date: 1994-11-01
See "But my blood -- So I lost my temper" by Ntozake Shange
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini
ISBN: 9780300145250
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Zami: a New Spelling of My Name by Geraldine Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780895941220
Publication Date: 1982-01-01