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Volume 6, Issue 2 (1975) Spring: Black Writing
Front Matter
Contents
The First Act of Liberation Is to Destroy One's Cage p. 1-1
Michael S. Harper
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1813
Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers p. 1-2
Robert Hayden
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1814
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning p. 2-3
Alice Walker
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1815
Leaving Eden p. 3-3
Ralph A. Dickey
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1816
Butterfly Piece p. 3-3
Robert Hayden
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1817
The Father p. 4-4
Gayl Jones
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1818
The City p. 4-4
Raymond R. Patterson
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1819
Fifteen p. 5-5
Shirley Williams
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1820
Soft Kid p. 5-5
Waring Cuney
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1821
Dizz on TV p. 6-6
Alvin Aubert
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1822
The Return of Julian the Apostate to Rome p. 6-7
Ishmael Reed
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1823
Alice p. 7-8
Michael S. Harper
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1824
Finale p. 9-9
Ann duCille
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1825
Parish Doctor p. 9-10
Sterling A. Brown
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1826
To John Oliver Killens in 1974 p. 10-11
Gwendolyn Brooks
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1827
Deep Song p. 11-11
Gayl Jones
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1828
The Point of the Western Pen p. 12-12
Etheridge Knight
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1829
The Old Women of Paris p. 12-13
Dudley Randall
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1830
Jericho p. 13-13
Ai .
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1831
Soul Soul Super Bowl p. 13-15
George Barlow
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1832
Power p. 16-17
Audre Lorde
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1833
Ungod at the Font of the Blues p. 17-18
Anthony McNeill
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1834
Words p. 18-18
Raymond R. Patterson
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1835
To All Brothers: From All Sisters p. 18-19
Sonia Sanchez
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1836
Open p. 19-20
Jerry W. Ward
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1837
Lébé p. 20-21
Jay Wright
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1838
Homage to My Hair p. 22-22
Lucille Clifton
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1839
This Is C. T. R. Reed p. 22-22
Mari Evans
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1840
From "The Book of Shine, XII" p. 23-23
Calvin Forbes
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1841
Dust p. 23-24
Everett Hoagland
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1842
July 4, 1974 p. 24-24
June Jordan
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1843
He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America p. 24-25
Primus St. John
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1844
For Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1972 p. 25-26
Margaret Walker
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1845
Two Egyptian Portrait Masks: Nefert-iti; Akhenaten p. 26-27
Robert Hayden
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1846
Riding Back on a 30-Year-Old Tractor after Pulling out the Car I Drove into a Ditch, Watching Stars and Lightning from the Northwest p. 27-28
Philip Bryant
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1847
Homage to My Hips p. 28-28
Lucille Clifton
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1848
Another Note for a Future Memory p. 28-29
Alvin Aubert
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1849
Providence, Rhode Island p. 29-30
Al Young
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1850
Mr. Booker T. p. 30-31
James W. Blake
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1851
Port Arthur p. 31-32
Shirley Williams
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1852
Boston p. 32-34
George Buggs
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1853
Boston, 5:00 a.m.: 11/74 p. 34-34
Etheridge Knight
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1854
The Missionaries p. 34-35
Samuel Allen
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1855
Silent Canto p. 36-36
Horace Coleman
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1857
In an Office of English p. 36-37
Ron Welburn
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1858
The Silent Songwriter of Our Apocalypse p. 37-38
Reginald Lockett
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1859
On a New York Street Corner: Canvas #14 p. 38-39
Quincy Troupe
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1860
Richmond Barthé: "Meeting in Lyon" p. 39-40
Melvin Dixon
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1861
Talking to My Grandmother Who Died Poor Some Years Ago p. 40-41
Alice Walker
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1862
Nightmare Begins Responsibility p. 41-42
Michael S. Harper
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1863
Introduction p. 42-44
Al Young
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1864
John Henry's Home p. 44-53
John McCluskey
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1865
Problems of Art p. 53-67
James Alan McPherson
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1866
From "Cakewalk Kangaroo" p. 67-74
Alison Mills
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1867
From "Flight to Canada" p. 74-82
Ishmael Reed
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1868
Visions of Love and Manliness in a Blackening World: Dramas of Black Life from 1953-1970 p. 82-99
Darwin T. Turner
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1869
Saga of the Black Man (A Pageant-Drama) p. 99-128
Sarah Webster Fabio
https://doi.org/10.17077/0021-065X.1870
Back Matter

Guest Editors
- Poetry
- Michael S. Harper
- Fiction
- Al Young
- Criticism and Drama
- Darwin D. Turner
Editors
- Editor
- Thomas R. Whitaker
- Managing Editor
- K. K. Merker
- Poetry Editors
- Charles Wright
- Sandra McPherson
- Assistant Poetry Editor
- David St. John
- Fiction Editor
- Robert Coover
- Assistant Fiction Editor
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Editorial Assistants
- Ernesto Trejo
- Douglas Unger
- Nicholas Gerogiannis
- Business Manager
- Norman Sage