The Spoken Word Revolution Redux Book

CD Track List -
Prologue -

Nobody's Here (Marc Smith) -
Essay: Poetry as a Basic Human Need (Ted Kooser) -

part 1: slammers and laureates Selecting A Reader (Ted Kooser)
galumpf deez nuts . . . . galumpf deez shoulders, spines, eyes and collarbones of mine (Anis Mojgani) -
Anne Frank Huis (Andrew Motion) -
Essay: The Raised Voice of Poetry (James Fenton) -
THICK (Sonya Renee) -
Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles (Billy Collins) -
Labeling Keys (Taylor Mali) -
Open Letter to Neil Armstrong (Mike McGee) -
Tract (Kevin Stein) -
tongue tactics (Mayda Del Valle) -
Old Man Leaves Party (Mark Strand) -
The Great Poet Returns (Mark Strand) -
Mandate (Roger Bonair-Agard) -
Essay: The Revolution Will Be (Guy Le Charles Gonzalez) -
Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 (Marvin Bell) -
Oya (Regie O'Hare Gibson) -
A Winter Journey (Dave Allan Evans) -
messiahs (Da Boogie Man) -

women take the slam -
When the Burning Begins (Patricia Smith) -
Hell Night (Lisa Buscani) -
Funeral Like Nixon's (Gayle Danley) -
Essay: Read by the Author: Some Notes on Poetry in Performance
(Henry Taylor) -
Night House (Bob Holman) -

the elders -
It-the Remedy (Marc Smith) -
Maps and Wings (Gary Mex Glazner) -
Gravitas: In Three Movements (Michael Warr) -
My Name's Not Rodriguez (Luis J. Rodriguez) -
Hammer Heistand (The Police Chief) (Michael Brown) -
Private Patrick Gass, the Carpenter, Makes His Case to Lewis and Clark (Allan Wolf) -

part 2: legacy: poetic influence-
Essay: Robert Creeley: Performance Poet (Bob Holman) -
Creeley's Oral Tradition (Bob Holman) -
Creeley's Answering Machine (Bob Holman) -
You Got a Song, Man (Martín Espada) -
Apples (Michael Anania) -
Short and Clear (Robert Creeley) -
Essay: A Gathering of Memories: Gregory Corso, 1930 — 2001
(Bob Holman) -
Marriage (Gregory Corso) -
Letter to Jack Kerouac (on the 30th Anniversary of his Death-2001)(Mike Henry) -
I Will Give You Christmas (Billy Lombardo) -
Keys (Daniel Ferri) -
Essay: So This Guy Walks into the Green Mill Uptown Poetry Slam (Chicago) .... (Daniel Ferri) -
My Father's Coat (Marc Smith) -
Jonathan (Nick Fox) -
The Quicksand Hourglass (Jeffrey McDaniel) -
Essay: Another Two Poets (Jeffrey McDaniel) -
The Modernist Bowling Alley (Matt Cook) -
How the Jellyfish Wishes (Derrick Brown) -
Essay: Poet David Lerner: "Still floating, bobbing on the surface of oblivion ..."
(Jeffrey McDaniel) -
Mein Kampf (David Lerner) -
BLEED, BE (hydi zasteR) -
Truce (Viggo Mortensen) -
Utopian Chaos (Hank Mortensen) -
Why I'm Not a Businessman (Hank Mortensen) -

part 3: musicians meeting poets/
music meeting poetry -
8 Fragments of Kurt Cobain (Jim Carroll) -
Tom Waits, I Hate You (Simone Muench) -
RULEBOOK (Vernon Reid) -
Interruption in Arc (Phil West) -
A Letter to Bob Dylan (Jeff Buckley) -
A house is not a home (Scott Woods) -
put off your faces,Death:for day is over (E. E. Cummings) -
Love, put on your faces (Patricia Barber) -
When I Say My Heart (Jeff Tweedy) -
Another Great Thing (Jeff Tweedy) -
Poetry of My Heart (Billy Corgan) -
Sonny's Lettah (Linton Kwesi Johnson) -

part 4: slam poetry -
Essay: Answering Carol: An Open Letter from the Margin
(Jack McCarthy) -
A Quick Thank You Note to Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath
(Genevieve Van Cleave) -
Saint Catherine of Siena to Mary-Kate Olsen (Marty McConnell)
my southern heritage (Jason Carney) -
Essay: from poetryslam.com News, Posted by"Slamuncle" (Steve Marsh) -
Thirty? Again (Elizabeth Lewis) -
Essay: On Poet Elizabeth Lewis (Dave Allan Evans ) -
Guitar Repair Woman (Buddy Wakefield) -
Echo (Sou MacMillan) -
The Vagabond Heart says, (Lynne N. Procope) -
You Are Dangerous (Sarah McKinstry-Brown) -
Eulogy for Gregory Hines (Ed Mabrey) -
Jazz Funeral (Chuck Perkins) -
The Good News (Matt Mason) -
Letters from a Young Poet, Letter #1 (Young Male Poet) -
Phone Sex Operator (Cynthia French) -
Letters from a Young Poet, Letter #2 (Young Male Poet) -
Slut (Daphne Gottlieb) -
Letter My Dad Never Gave Me (Corbet Dean) -
Letters from a Young Poet, Letter #3 (Young Male Poet)
Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
(Susan B.A. Somers-Willett) -
Undressing Virginia Dare (Victor D. Infante) -
Essay: On Poet Paula L. Friedrich (Jack Foley) -
Essay: What Legitimizes Poems (Paula L. Friedrich) -
Ode to Pablo Neruda (Paula L. Friedrich) -
conquered, colonized, colonialized (Beau Sia) -
Essay: On Poet Beau Sia (Jack Foley) -

slam poets writing in form -
Delilah and Samson (Michael Kadela)
Epithalamion (Michael Kadela) -
Epithalamion: A Few Words for Kathleen (Jack McCarthy) -
Sylvia Plath's Gangsta Rap Legacy (Jeremy Richards) -
T. S. Eliot's Lost Hip-Hop Poem (excerpt) (Jeremy Richards)
Essay: Parody's Hidden Agenda (Jeremy Richards) -
Medusa (Patricia Smith) -
Essay: "Unable to untangle ourselves from this starkly crafted drama..." (Patricia Smith) -
mistress stella speaks (Tyehimba Jess) -
Candler (James Nave) -
MY THIRD 9AM APPOINTMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY'S WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE (Karyna McGlynn) -
Eve's Sestina for Adam (Lucy Anderton) -

part 5: the spoken world: poetry abroad -
It's History (Brendan Murphy) -
Moment Auf Rattanbank (Nora Gomringer) -
Moment on Rattan Bench (Nora Gomringer) -
Liebesrost (Nora Gomringer) -
Love Rust (Nora Gomringer) -
Trois (Pilote le Hot) -
Three (Pilote le Hot)
An American Dream (Jürg Halter a.k.a. Kutti MC) -
Infected (David Stavanger a.k.a. Ghostboy) -
Amrit Sar (Chris Mooney-Singh ) -
Prelude to a Journey (Matthew Shenoda) -
Remembering (Matthew Shenoda) -
love poem (Suheir Hammad) -

part 6: the young and spoken: youth poetry -
Essay: The "Youuuuths": "At base, we humans want to connect with each other" (Jeff Kass) -
Sixteen Fragments of Islam (Caronae Howell) -
Two Cities (Kelly McWilliams) -
Lebron James (Nate Marshall) -
Superfabulous (Molly Kennedy) -
Dear son, part 1 (Zora Howard) -
Dead Ass (Michael Cirelli) -

part 7: a hip-hop poetica -
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron) -
harlem love poem (yvonne fly onakeme etaghene) -
Brooklyn's Atlas (Kyle G. Dargan) -
Microphone Fiend (Kyle G. Dargan) -
1707 (Idris Goodwin) -
Detroit Winter (excerpt) (Invincible) -
Essay: Toward A Hip-Hop Poetica (Kevin Coval) -
The Day Jam Master Jay Died (Kevin Coval) -
what norman rockwell didn't capture (Kevin Coval) -
Crazy Bunch Barbeque at Jefferson Park (Willie Perdomo) -
B-Boy Infinitives (Patrick Rosal) -
Freddie (Patrick Rosal) -
Born under Punches (Major Jackson) -
All Eyez On U (Nikki Giovanni) -
Mr. Dynamite Splits (Thomas Sayers Ellis) -
Essay: The New Oral Poetry: An Excerpt from the Essay
'Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture' (Dana Gioia) -
Villanelle: for the dead white fathers (Duriel E. Harris) -
Drag (Duriel E. Harris) -
self portrait at the millennium (Duriel E. Harris) -
Rasta Not (Tracie Morris) -
Indigo (Tracie Morris) -
Life Saver (Tracie Morris) -
HIP HOP HAIKU (17 Skillables) (Douglas Kearney and Bao Phi)
makémake ghetto bodypartscasta (LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs)
My Father's Brother (Christina Santana) -
hoodology (west side of chicago) (Mike Booker) -
For Those Who Need a True Story (Tara Betts) -
Lili's Hands (Kelly Tsai) -
Blue Monday (Xero) -
,said the shotgun to the head. (excerpt) (Saul Williams) -
Essay: Stealing from a Jeff Chang Book on Hip-Hop (Jeff Chang) -

Epilogue (Victor D. Infante) -
A Tree in the Forest (Marc Smith) -

About the Editors -
Acknowledgments -
Contributor Biographies -
Permissions and Credits -
Index -