Anthology. Includes bibliographical references (page 174) and index.
Contents:
Afterword / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Everything happens to (Monk and) me / Marcus Christian -- My neighborhood is changing / Nia Gates -- Blood nativity / Karen Celestan -- Genders & genres (law's labor loses love) / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- We / JB Borders -- Post-Katrina blues / Kelly Hanis-DeBerry -- Martha / Marian Moore -- The last days (my Uncle Michael remembers) / Nadir Lasana Bomani -- Ode to New Orleans home / Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa -- Color / Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani -- New Orleans is people / Niyi Osundare -- When you think of New Orleans : (who, what, when, where, why, & how) / Christine "Cfreedom" Brown -- 1201 Ursulines / Asali Ecclesiastes -- A battle for Algiers / Baakir Tyehimba -- Letter to New Orleans / Carol Bebelle -- The soul of NO / Frederick "Hollywood" Delahoussaye -- Home / Valentine Pierce -- No invitation to the cookout / Sha'Condria Sibley -- My city ain't for sale / Sunni Patterson -- Spoon-rest mammies / Skye Jackson -- Minstrel Jubilee 2019 : the New Orleans Negro / Akilah Toney -- I'm so New Orleans... / Arthur Pfister aka Professor Arturo -- New Orleans, a neighborhood nation / Mona Lisa Saloy -- Niggers I have known / Maurice M. Martinez -- Sunsets / Akeem Martin -- o.d. / Ayo Fayemi-Robinson -- Waterlogged, nomadic Katrina songs / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- These men, New Orleans men / Christopher Williams -- Tribute to Carol Bebelle / Ayo Fayemi-Robinson -- City of my birth / Peteh Muhammad Haroon -- Indian red / Kristina Kay Robinson -- Comfort food / Michael "Quess? "Moore -- A poem for New Orleanians in the key of Hamlet called "That is the question" / G.F. Smith -- Return to English turn / Tom Dent -- Beneath the bridge / Kalamu ya Salaam -- Street names / Chuck Perkins -- wake up call / Jahi Salaam -- Everything happens to (Monk and) me / Brenda Marie Osbey -- Afterword / Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
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