Furious Flower

Rita Dove, Iain Haley Pollock, Gregory Pardlo, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Frank X. Walker, E. Ethelbert Miller, Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Kearney, Dante Micheaux, DaMaris B. Hill, Cynthia Manick, Curtis L. Crisler, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Tara Betts, Shayla Lawson, Sherese Francis, Samantha Thornhill, Safiya Sinclair, Safia Elhillo, Randall Horton, Raina J. León, Dominique Christina, Dexter L. Booth, Destiny O. Birdsong, DéLana R. A. Dameron, David Mills, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ana-Maurine Lara, Amber Flora Thomas, Amanda Johnston, Abdul Ali, Kwame Dawes, Xandria Phillips, Tyehimba Jess, Tracy K. Smith, Tony Medina, Thylias Moss, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Cedric Tillman, Camille T. Dungy, Bettina Judd, Julian Randall, Justin Phillip Reed, Keith S. Wilson, Kevin Simmonds, Khadijah Queen, Lauren Russell, Major Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Matthew Shenoda, Mahtem Shiferraw, Nabila Lovelace, Lauren K. Alleyne, John Bracey, Fred Joiner, F. Douglas Brown, Douglas Manuel, Jericho Brown, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Janice N. Harrington, Hayes Davis, Clemonce Heard, Cornelius Eady, CM Burroughs, John Murillo, t'ai freedom ford, Shauna M. Morgan, Remica Bingham-Risher, Phillip B. Williams, Donika Kelly, Derrick Weston Brown, darlene anita scott, Sharan Strange, Candice Wiley, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Ama Codjoe, Alan W. King, Yalie Saweda Kamara, Tiana Clark, avery r. young, Chanda Feldman, Joshua B. Bennett, JP Howard, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Korey Williams, Krista Franklin, L. Lamar Wilson, Lynne Procope, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Meta DuEwa Jones, Michael Collins, Joanne V. Gabbin, Erica Hunt, Metta Sáma, Toi Derricotte, Taylor Johnson, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Nandi Comer, Natasha Marin, Natasha Oladokun, Nate Marshall, Nagueyalti Warren, Nicole Sealey, Nkosi Nkululeko, Opal Moore, Evie Shockley, Ladan Osman, Rickey Laurentiis, Jasmine Richards, Terrance Hayes, francine j. harris, Patricia Spears Jones, Patricia Smith, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Ross Gay, Arisa White, Saretta Morgan, Indigo Moor, Marcus Wicker, Danez Smith, Aricka Foreman, Mary Alice Daniel, Clint Smith, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Reginald Dwayne Dwayne Betts, Mitchel L.H. Douglas, Charif Shanahan, Anastacia Renée, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Valencia Robin

"Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Justin Philip Reed, and Tracy K. Smith, with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Meta DuEwa Jones, and Evie Shockley. The Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. In this eponymous collection, editors Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne bring together many of the paramount voices in Black poetry and poetics active today, composing an electrifying mosaic of voices, generations, and aesthetics that reveals the Black narrative in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers. Intellectually enlightening and powerfully enlivening, Furious Flower explores and celebrates the idea of the Black poetic voice by posing the question, What's next for...