Obsidian
III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 2, Number 1
Spring-Summer 2000
Obsidian's 25th Anniversay Year
Table of Contents
Letter from
the Editor
Poetry
Steven B. Katz
Black Adam
Evie Shockley
waiting on the mayflower
Sestina: Delano's Story
daddy's girl
Double Bop for Ntozake Shange
Sheree Renee Thomas
Goree
Cusco
metamorphoses
landlocked
Danielle Legros Georges
fin We Mo
Ogoun and God
Grasshopper
My Father Is Dogon
Tyehimba Jess
when i speak of blues be clear
leadbelly
detroit story
father figure
father country
father's shoes
Makeda Sela
Mailed from Central Prison
John Taylor
Dancing In The Wind
Michael S. Harper
Introduction by Afaa M. Weaver
CINCO de Mayo
How To Forgive The Father Who Screams At His Son
Joseph Santos Ileto
On First Listening to Native Dancer By Wayne Shorter
TCAT serenade: 4 4 98, New Haven
Honoree Jeffers
The Two Marys
Oya's Rage
Eatonton Tableaux
Camille Dungy
Lips
Drive-by
Jacob's Ladder, Jacob Lawrence
Renee K. Moore
What About Eve
R. Flowers Rivera
Legacy To Our Daughers
Quraysh Ali Lansana
cleaning graves in calvert
Treasure Williams
O Heavenly Father
Busche Ndgo
black boy
Tony Medina
Light
Bloodsong
John Frazier
Watching the War
Kahled Mattawa
Mind Motions Of The Heart In Bondage
Kamilah Aishah Moon
Family Ties Unlaced
The Crime
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
Splurge
Marblenight
Go Forth and Speak the Gospel/Get Your House in Order
Jesse Alexander
But daddy's ol' black shovel: I'll keep
Crystal Williams
Cecil
Jacob's Son
Eliza
Cop ing
Pamela Plummer
An Unsettling of Ghosts
moses
James E. Cherry
Chicken Sandwich Blues
Tara Betts
Stories Told
Angela A. Williams
Familial Ties
Photographs
John Taylor
Black Seminoles
Stories
Wanda Coleman
Pepper
Treasure Williams
Elsie
Deborah Vaughan
Curtains
Essay
Shara McCallum
"The Light That Came To Lucille Clifton..."
Book Reviews
Tina Barr
Book Review: Clarence Major, Configurations
Danille Taylor-Guthrie
Three Book Reviews
Obsidian's
Selected List Of Recently Received Titles
