Gumbo: a celebration of African American writing

About the Hurston/Wright Foundations

Note / E. Lynn Harris

Note / Marita Golden

Dew Breaker / Edwidge Danticat

From Erasure / Percival Everett

From RL's Dream / Walter Mosley

From The Harris Men / R. M. Johnson

Boy-Fish / David Anthony Durham

Way I See It (From A Day Late and a Dollar Short) / Terry McMillan

From Pride / Lorene Cary

From What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day / Pearl Cleage

Mourning Glo / Lori Bryant-Woolridge

From These Same Long Bones / Gwendolyn M. Parker

Your Child Can Be a Model! / David Haynes

From Song of the Water Saints / Nelly Rosario

Miss Prissy and the Penitentiary / Yolanda Joe

Luminous Days / Mitchell Jackson

From Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven / Dawn Turner Trice

Sonny-Boy (From Pictures of a Dying Man) / Agymah Kamau

From Water Marked / Helen Elaine Lee

From October Suite / Maxine Clair

Like Trees, Walking / Ravi Howard

Weight / John Edgar Wideman

From Thieves' Paradise / Eric Jerome Dickey

From P. G. County / Connie Briscoe

My Heavenly Father / Dana Crum

Lion's Blood / Steven Barnes

Knowing / Tananarive Due

Luscious (From Loving Donovan) / Bernice L. McFadden

From Crawfish Dreams / Nancy Rawles

Press and Curl / Tayari Jones

I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies (From The River Where Blood Is Born) / Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Draggin' the Dog / Anika Nailah

Museum Guide (From Black Girl in Paris) / Shay Youngblood

School (From Miss Black America) / Veronica Chambers

Ghost Story (From Slapboxing with Jesus) / Victor D. Lavalle

Clarity / David Wright

My Mama, Your Mama (From Imani All Mine) / Connie Porter

From Rails Under My Back / Jeffery Renard Allen

From Dakota Grand / Kenji Jasper

Dinner Party / E. Lynn Harris

Meeting Frederick (From Douglass's Women) / Jewell Parker Rhodes

Eva and Isaiah (From Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do) / Valerie Wilson Wesley

From Discretion / Elizabeth Nunez

Orange Line Train to Ballston / Edward P. Jones

Lucielia Louise Turner (From The Women of Brewster Place) / Gloria Naylor

Fortune / R. Erica Doyle

$100 and Nothing! / J. California Cooper

Are You Experienced? / Danzy Senna

Group Solo / Scott Poulson Bryant

Love / Bertice Berry

From Breathing Room / Patricia Elam

Love (From Drop) / Mat Johnson

Antiquated Desires / Cris Burks

From Rest for the Weary / Arthur Flowers

From Church Folk / Michele Andrea Bowen

From Commitment / Thomas Glave

Black and Boo / Michael Kayode

Rossonian Days / William Henry Lewis

Helter Skelter / Marita Golden

Here / Audrey Petty

Summer Comes Later / Robert Fleming

Bulging Bag / Unoma N. Azuah

From Sap Rising / Christine Lincoln

Fire: An Origin Tale / Faith Adiele

Tan Son Nhut Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (From The Land South of the Clouds) / Genaro Ky Ly Smith

Between Black and White / Nicole Bailey-Williams

Hincty (From The Chosen People) / Karen Bates

To Haiti or To Hell / Alexs D. Pate

Mirror Image / Amy Du Bois Barnett

From What You Owe Me / Bebe Moore Campbell

Will Not Be Televised / Jewell Gomez

Fear of Floating / Bryan Gibson

From The Queen of Harlem / Brian Keith Jackson

My Girl Mona / Crystal Wilkinson.