Abegunde, M. Eliza Hamilton
Wishful Thinking
Jane's Stories Press, 2002

Still Breathing
Louisville KY: Chicago Spectrum Press, 1998

What Is Now Unanswerable
Evanston IL: Warrior Poets Press, 1994

Adisa, Opal Palmer
Leaf-of-Life
Oakland CA: Jukebox Press, 2000

Tamarind and Mango Women
Toronto Ontario: Sister Vision Press, 1992

with major, devorah, traveling women
Oakland CA: Jukebox Press, 1989

Alberdeston-Coralin, Jane
The Waters of My Thirst
1998

Bashir, Samiya A.
Where the Apple Falls
Washington DC: RedBone Press, 2005

American Visa
SistaFire Publishing, 2001

Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring
SistaFire Publishing, 2000

Berry, Michelle Courtney
Cave Canem congratulates Michelle Courtney Berry, recently named Poet Laureate of Tompkins County, New York, for 2005-2006

The Month of Not Speaking
Greene NY: A & R Associates, 1997 (Available here)

Betts, Tara
Switch
2002

Can I Hang?
1999

Burgess, Gloria
The Open Door
Red Oak Press, 2001

Journey of the Rose
Jazz Media, 1998

Daaood, Kamau
The Language of Saxophones
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2005

Dargan, Kyle
The Listening
Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004
(Winner of the 2003 Cave Canem Poetry Prize)

Davis, Jarita
There Should Be More Water, 2004
Available through the author's website

de Leon, Aya
Love2K: Sober Love Poems, 2000

Prayer Warrior, Poems of Struggle, 2000

Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop, 2002

Valentine's Day Has Been Cancelled: Love Poems for Real Life, 2002

Doyle, R. Erica
Gathering
Washington DC: Babyrita Productions, 1998

Blood to the surface
Washington DC: Babyrita Productions, 1998

Floyd-Miller, Cherryl
Chops
Atlanta GA: Nexus Press, 2004
(Book sales contact: Valeria Porter)
Cave Canem congratulates Cherryl Floyd-Miller, winner of a Gold SEED award from the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, for Chops

Frazier, DuEwa M.
Shedding Light from My Journeys, New York NY: Lit Noire Publishing

Franklin, Krista
Lunar Eclipse
susan rose productions, 1999.

Arrowdynamic
susan rose productions, 1997.

Gilmore, Brian
Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra
Washington DC: Karibu Books, 2000.

Elvis Presley is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem
Chicago IL: Third World Press, 1992

Hamilton, Kendra
The Goddess of Gumbo
Cincinnati, OH: Word Press, 2006

Hand, Monica
Seven Seasons of Separation and Loss of Seven Seasons Lost
Washington DC: 7 Hands Press, 2002

Harris, Duriel
Drag
Minneapolis, MN: Elixir Press, 2003

Harris, Reginald
Ten Tongues
Baltimore MD: Three Conditions Press, 2002

Hayes, Terrance
Hip Logic
New York NY: Penguin USA, 2002
(Selected for the 2002 National Poetry Series)

Muscular Music
Chicago IL: Tia Chucha Press, 1999
(Winner of the 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award)

Hope, Akua Lezli
Being Here
Kanona, NY: FootHills Publishing, 2005

Jackson, Major
Hoops
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005

Leaving Saturn
Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001
(Winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize)

Jean, Valerie
Thread
Glenn Dale MD: 2000

LPs (or Recordings of one journey through a grief)
Glenn Dale MD: 1998

Woman Writing a Letter
Baltimore, 1991
(Winner of the 1991 Baltimore, Maryland, Artscape Literary Arts Award for Poetry)

Keene, John
with Stackhouse, Christopher
Seismosis
New York NY: The Center for Book Arts, 2003

Kocher, Ruth Ellen
When the Moon Knows You're Wandering
New Issues Press Poetry Series, 2001

Desdemona's Fire
Detroit MI: Lotus Press, 1999

Lansana, Quraysh Ali
southside rain
Chicago IL: Third World Press 2000

cockroach children: cornerpoems and street psalms
nappyhead press, 1995

Lightfoot, Toni Assante
Poems Run Through It
Lightfoot Productions, 1994

Kiss My Ear Like Jazz
Lightfoot Productions, 1995

Under the Neon Sky
Lightfoot Productions, 1996

Let Pharaoh Go
Maimandunit Productions, 1999

Lockett, Reginald
The Party Crashers of Paradise
Berkeley CA: Creative Arts, 2001

Where the Birds Sing Bass, 1997
(Winner of the 1996 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award)

No Bread and Good Times
Oakland CA: Jukebox Press, 1987

major, devorah
where river meets ocean
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishing, 2003

with more than tongue
Berkeley, CA: Creative Art Books, Inc., 2002

street smarts
Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press, 1997
(Winner of the 1997 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award)

with Adisa, Opal Palmer
traveling women
Oakland CA: Jukebox Press, 1989

McCallum, Shara
Song of Thieves
Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003

The Water Between Us
Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999
(Winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize)

Matejka, Adrian
The Devil's Garden
Farmington ME: Alice James Books, 2003
(Winner of the Alice James Books 2003 New England/New York Award)

Merritt, Constance
A Protocol for Touch
Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2000
(Winner of the 1999 Vassar Miller Prize)

Moore, Lenard D
Gathering At The Crossroads: Haiku (with photographs by Eugene Redmond). Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2003

Desert Storm: A Brief History
San Diego CA: Los Hombres Press, 1993

Forever Home
Laurinburg NC: St. Andrews College Press, 1992

The Open Eye
Raleigh - Durham NC:The North Carolina Haiku Society Press, 1985

Poems of Love and Understanding
The Lenard Press, 1982

Morris, Tracie
Intermission
Soft Skull Press, 1999

Obadike, Mendi Lewis
Armor and Flesh
Detroit MI: Lotus Press, 2004
(Winner of the 2004 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award)

Patterson, G. E.
Tug
St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 1999
(Winner of the 2000 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry)

Pinson, Hermine
Ashe
San Antonio TX: Wings Press, 1999

Mama Yetta and Other Poems
San Antonio TX: Wings Press, 1992

Rushin, Kate
The Black Back-Ups
Ithaca NY: Firebrand Books, 1993

Shockley, Evie
The Gorgon Goddess
Durham NC: Carolina Wren Press, 2001

Smith, Tracy K.
The Body's Question
St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 2003
(Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize)

Stackhouse, Christopher
with Keene, John
Seismosis
New York NY: The Center for Book Arts, 2003

Trethewey, Natasha
Bellocq's Ophelia
St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 2002

Domestic Work
St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 2000
(Winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize)

Thornhill, Samantha Raheem
Musk
(Contact the author about availability)

White, Marvin K.
Last Rights
San Francisco CA: Alyson Books, 1999

FICTION

Adisa, Opal Palmer
It Begins with Tears
Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1997

Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories
Toronto Ontario: Sister Vision Press, 1992

Keene, John
Annotations
New York: New Directions 1995

La Mon, Jacqueline Jones
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me
New York: Ballantine/One World 2002

major, devorah
Brown Glass Windows
Wilmington CT: Curbstone Press, 2002

An Open Weave
Seattle, WA: Seal Press 1995(cloth);
New York: Berkeley Publishing Group,1997 (paper)

ANTHOLOGY EDITORSHIP

Bashir, Samiya A.
Best Black Women's Erotica 2
Cleis Press, 2003

co-editor with Tony Medina and Quraysh Ali Lansana
Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
Chicago IL: Third World Press, 2002

Kearney, Douglas
co-editor with d zenani mzube
Nommogeneity: Pot Liquor for Writer’s Block
Ubwenge Press, 2000

Lansana, Quraysh Ali
co-editor with Tony Medina and Samiya A. Bashir
Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Art & Literature
Chicago IL: Third World Press, 2002

African American Literature Anthology
New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 2000

dream in yourself
Chicago IL: Tia Chucha Press, 1997
Collection of young adult literature from Chicago's award-winning youth arts employment program, Gallery 37

I Represent
Chicago IL: Tia Chucha Press,1996.
Collection of young adult literature from Chicago's award-winning youth arts employment program Gallery 37

Jess, Tyehimba
African American Pride: Celebrating Our Achievements, Contributions, and Enduring Legacy
New York: Citadel Press, 2003

major, devorah
The Other Side of the Postcard
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2005

Martin, Dawn Lundy
co-editor with Vivien Labaton
Young Activists and The New Feminism
New York: Anchor Press, 2004

Thomas, Sheree R, ed.
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
New York: Warner/Aspect, 2004

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative. Fiction from the African Diaspora
New York: Warner/Aspect, 2000

JOURNAL EDITORSHIP

singleton, giovanni (founding editor/publisher)
nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts

Thomas, Sheree Renée
(founding editor/co-publisher)
Anansi: Fiction of the African Diaspora.

PUBLISHERS

Burgess, Gloria
Journey of the Rose: Poems and Music
Jazz Media, 1999

Da'ood, Kamau
Leimert Place
1998. Poetry and music CD

Life is a Saxophone
1985. Poetry and music documentary video directed by Sandra Sharp

Franklin, Krista
and Alison Chesley
Aural Anarchy Preview, 2004
Chicago IL: naivete records
Aural Anarchy, 2005
Chicago IL: naivete records

de Leon, Aya
Aya de Leon: Live at La Peña

Lansana, Quraysh Ali
Passage
Poetry and video collaboration with Kurt Heintz
(Winner of the ImageUnion/Bob Award from WTTW-TV)

Mills, David
Ghosttown
Spoken word recording on Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Black Science
RCA/Novus Records, 1991
Steve Coleman and Five Elements

Price you gotta pay (to be free) (Lyrics)
The Funky Brotherhood: Signs of Reality
AG Records (Switzerland)
The Funky Brotherhood

Brownies and Stuck or Finished (Lyrics and Vocals)
The Clients Funk Society: Olten
CCC Records (Switzerland)
The Clients Funk Society

Obadike, Mendi Lewis
with Keith Obadike, The Sour Thunder
New Rochelle, NY: Bridge Records, 2004.

speaks, folade mondisa
corpus twenty seven
Poetry and sound CD

Springer, Christina
In the Image of Angels, 2000.
Poetry CD.

Thornhill, Samantha Raheem

Merror, Mirror: The Art of Self Reflection, 2003
Available throughCD Baby

Uncircumcised: Raw & Uncut, 2002
Available throughCD Baby

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Adisa, Opal Palmer
Pina, The Many-Eyed Fruit
Oakland CA: Richardson Publishing, 1985

Girmay, Aracelis
changing, changing
New York NY: George Braziller Publishers, 2005

Johnson, Jacqueline
Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Silver Burdett, 1990

Lansana, Quraysh Ali
The Big World
Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999.

major, devorah
Frederick Douglass: A Hero for All Times
Chicago IL: Don Johnson Publishing, 1999 (Book and CD-ROM)

Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter
Chicago IL: Don Johnson Publishing, 1999 (book and CD-ROM).

Compiled by Cave Canem Fellows major, devorah and Reginald Harris

Copyright © 1997-2005 by Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.

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