"The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of ..."
"The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in "The Ringing Ear" alongside some ..."
"2019 issue of hasret / longing includes poems by the winners of the Eleventh Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize, an article on the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca by Prof. Irene Gomez-Castellano, poems of the Turkish poet, Sukru Erbas, translated to English by Gokcenur C and Neil P. Doherty and an interview with Efe Duyan on Turkish poetry."
"... land cardinal's Eden Green home green home green home For we were once
a wayside inn Too comfortable for words THE REV. BROOKS GRAEBNER has
served as rector of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Hillsborough since 1990.
He is a past president of the Hillsborough Historical Society, and is the Secretary
of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church and the Historiographer of the
Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. He has tau ..."
"Immigration, Emigration, Diversity is a poetry anthology that is a testimonial to the possibilities of hope, new visions, and new graces that only our children, and their children, can bring forth and foster through the necessary celebration of diversity. This exceptional book of poetry features such celebrated poets as Mark Smith-Soto, Lynn Veach Sadler, John Boyle O’Reilly, Mahmoud Darwish, Jaki Shelton Green, and the former Poet La ..."
Breath of the Song New and Selected Poems by JakiSheltonGreen Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2005 by Carolina Wren Press ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-49-1, ISBN: 0-932112-49-8
"A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01."
singing a tree into dance (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series) by JakiSheltonGreen Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2004 by Carolina Wren Press Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-45-3, ISBN: 0-932112-45-5
"A special edition poetry chapbook in celebration of Jaki Shelton Green's receipt of the 2003 North Carolina Award for Literature. Contains 8 new poems, including "Lifting Veils" dated 9/11/2001, and the long poem entitled "bring me your breasts.""
Conjure Blues(1st Edition) poems by JakiSheltonGreen Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 1996 by Carolina Wren Press ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-37-8, ISBN: 0-932112-37-4
"I have not known your face as woman my first born/my first one/my new self I am learning to speak in whole sentences learning not to speak always in the mother tongue we are learning that we can be sisters that we can open the curtains together that we can each call morning something else"
All the Songs We Sing Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective by Lenard D. Moore, JakiSheltonGreen Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Carolina Wren Press ISBN-13: 978-1-949467-33-8, ISBN: 1-949467-33-3
""An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely" ―from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet LaureateThe Carolina African American Writers’ Collective celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with All the Songs We Sing, an anthology of works by members of the Collective, edited by its founder, Lenard D. Moore. North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green introduces the anthology, whi ..."
Dead On Arrival(3rd Edition) poems by JakiSheltonGreen Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 1983 by Carolina Wren Press ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-38-5, ISBN: 0-932112-38-2
"Reissue of Jaki Shelton Green's acclaimed premier collection of poetry. Green's earlier works pulse with the intoxicating rhythms and fierce clarity of image that made her one of North Carolina's most popular poets. Here is an artist at turns angry and wickedly funny, demanding justice yet possessed of a refined grace."
Masks by JakiSheltonGreen 12 Pages, Published 1981 ISBN-13: 978-0-932112-25-5, ISBN: 0-932112-25-0
"G.R.I.T.S. - A MARVELOUS AND DIVERSE COLLECTION OF WRITINGS AND WRITERS! This cutting-edge anthology G.R.I.T.S : Girls Raised In The South- An Anthology of Southern Queer Womyns’ Voices and Their Allies, edited by Poet On Watch & Amber N. Williams, can be compared to the pioneering anthology Home Girls which featured writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. G.R.I.T.S. is a critical self ..."