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ALL SAINTS: New and Selected Poems. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1997. American Book Award 1998. 2nd Printing 1999.
Desperate
Circumstance, Dangerous Woman. Brownsville, Oregon: Story Line Press, 1991.
In These Houses.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University, 1988.
Ceremony for Minneconjoux. Lexington: Callaloo Poetry Series,
1983. reprinted by University Press of Virginia, 1985.

Ceremony for Minneconjoux. Lexington: Callaloo
Poetry Series, 1983. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985 2nd Printing.

POEMS & SUITES of POEMS:
"The Business of Pursuit: San Malo's Prayer" in The American Voice,
Winter 1995 (no. 36), pp. 114--121.
"The Head of Luís Congo Speaks" and "Everything Happens to (Monk and) Me" in The American Poetry Review,
January/February 1995 (vol. 24, no. 1) pp. 8--11.
"Mother Catherine" in Southern Review, Autumn 1994 (vol.
30, no. 4), pp. 833--836.
"Expeditus" in The American Poetry Review, May/June 1992 (vol. 21, no. 3), pp.
8--9.
"Moses Goes Home to Soweto" in The American Voice, Spring 1992 (no. 26), pp. 112--114.
"Stones
of Soweto (A Mourning Poem)" in The American Voice, Winter 1991 (no. 25), pp. 82--85.
"Sor Juana"
in Indiana Review, Fall 1991 (vol. 14, no. 3), pp. 49--56.
"Desire and Private Griefs" and "Evidence of Conjure"
in Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, Summer 1991 (vol. 14, no. 3), pp. 557--563.
"Consuela" in Epoch, 1988 Series (vol. 37, no. 2), pp. 117--119.
"The Evening News: A Letter to Nina
Simone" in The American Voice, Summer 1988 (no. 11), pp. 3--11.
"Faubourg Study No. 3: The Seven Sisters of New Orleans" in Callaloo,
Summer 1988 (vol. 11, no. 3), pp. 464--476.
(An excerpt from) "Memory" in Shankpainter, Spring 1988 (no.
28), pp. 69--71.
"The House" and "Writing Home" in The Greenfield Review, Winter/Spring 1987 (vol. 16, no.
6), pp. 172--177.
"Speaking of Trains" and "Elvena" in The American Poetry Review, November/December 1987
(vol. 16, no. 6), pp. 21--23.
"Another Time and Farther South" and "The Godchild" in Southern Review, Autumn
1987 (vol. 23, no. 4), pp. 804--807.
"The Galvez Cut" and "Setting Loose the Icons" in Callaloo: A Journal of
Afro-American and African Arts and Letters, Winter 1986 (vol. 9, no. 11) pp. 109--115.
"Little Eugenia's Lover"
in The American Voice, Spring 1986 (no. 2), pp. 110-111.
"Geography and Other Poems" [including "How I Became
the Blues," "House of the Dead Remembering (House of Mercies/Variation 2)" and "House of Bones"] in The American Poetry
Review, March/April 1986 (vol. 15, no. 2), pp. 8--9.
"In These Houses of Swift Easy Women," "The Bone-Step Women,"
"The Wastrel-Woman Poem" and "Devices of Icons" in The Southern Review, Summer 1985 (vol. 21, no. 3), pp. 830--836.
"Family History" in Essence, May 1985 (vol. 16, no. 1), p. 188.
"Ceremony for Minneconjoux" in Southern
Exposure, May/June 1984.

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"I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say," in Creative
Nonfiction, Winter 1996, no. 7, pp. 33--48.
"One More Last Chance: Ritual and the Jazz Funeral," in
The Georgia Review, Spring 1996, vol. 50, no.1, pp. 97--107.
"I Want to Die in New Orleans," in The
American Voice, Fall 1995, no.38, pp. 103--112.
ANTHOLOGIES & COLLECTIONS:
The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry
from the American Poetry Review. Eds., Stephen Berg, David Bonanno and Arthur Vogelsang, with an introduction by Harold
Bloom. New York: Norton, 2000.


Literary New
Orleans. Ed., Judy Long, foreword by Patricia Brady. Athens: Hill Street Press, 1999.
The Yellow Shoe Poets: Selected Poems 1964--1999.
Ed., George Garrett, with a foreword by Fred Chappell. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1999.
The American Voice Anthology
of Poetry. Ed., Frederick Smock. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Literature of the American
South: A Norton Anthology., Eds., William L. Andrews, Minrose C. Gwin, Trudier Harris, Fred Hobson., New York: W.W. Norton,
1997.
Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets. Ed., Nicholas Christopher. New York: Anchor/Doubleday,
1989.
Afro-American Writing Today, ed. James A. Olney. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University
Press, 1989.
2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing. Ed., James Gill. Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris
Press, 1987.
Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now. Ed. Marge Piercy. London: Routledge & Kegan
Paul/Pandora Press, 1987.
The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. Ed., Leon Stokesbury.
Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1987.
Annual Survey of American Poetry 1985. Great
Neck, New York: Ross Publishing, Inc./Poetry Anthology Press, 1987.
2PLUS2: A Collection of International Writing.
Ed., James Gill. Lausanne, Switzerland: Mylabris Press, 1986.

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"Ceremony for Minneconjoux," "Chifalta" and "Eliza" in Callaloo:
A Black South Journal of Arts and Letters, February 1983 (vol. 16, no. 1), pp. 12--21 and 36--39.
"Writing the
Words" and "Flying Solo" in Callaloo, February--October 1981 (vol. 4, nos. 1--3), pp. 48--50 and 109--110.
"Mama,"
"Sundown Song," "If Edna Knew Anything About the Blues...," "The Old Mother" and "Legion" in Callaloo, February 1979
(vol. 2), pp. 29, 32, 64, 105 and 125--126.
"Biography," "The Conju Woman's Youth," "Sister and the Shadowman," "Dance
Me," "Not Guilty" and "999th Suicide Letter to Ramses" in Callaloo, October 1978 (vol. 1), pp. 7, 17, 45, 46, 50--51
and 78.
"Mama Sitting," "Blues for a Blues Man," "Lexington," "Mother," "Lines," "In Kentucky," "The Porch Woman"
and "Tuesdays" in Obsidian: Black Literature in Review, Spring/Summer 1979 (vol. 5, nos. 1 and 2), pp. 70--82.
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