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Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African American Poets

Charles Trumbull

Part II: Jazz and Blues haiku

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Jazz and Blues Poetry

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Jazz Poetry

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Robert Gilliland (1999)12 Marian Olson (2012)13

Blues and Blues Poetry

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I was a good boy,

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Weary, weary,Weary early in de morn.Weary, weary,Early, early in de morn.

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i set sail in tall grassno air stirs.

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Like the Singing Coming O! the Drums

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Choruses

Faces

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Kwame Alexander

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Dancing Naked on the Floor

Haiku

dreams are but mild stones29

Jerhretta Dafina Suite

ChickenBones

Haiiku #2 Blues

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Geoffrey Wilson

Montage 31

Van G. Garrett

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rudimenting beats

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jazzy jezebels

trying to be sane

louisiana

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Kalamu ya Salaam-

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The Future of African American Haiku

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#e 100 Best A$ican American Poems (but I cheated) -ited in 201040 #e Columbia Granger’s Index of A$ican-American Poetry (1999).41

Haiku

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Jamie Walker

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Haiku

my nipples stand attentionbegging you to taste

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Urban Haiku & Other Selected Poems

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Tara Betts

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Arc & Hue

Simply Haiku 6:4 (winter 2008), and Erotic Haiku

Taboo HaikuFingernails Across a Chalkboard

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Derrick Weston Brown

Taboo Haiku:

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Hurricane Katrina Haiku

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Adrienne Christian

RipplesFrogpond

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Haiku News

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2 Ibid., 230.3 Mountain Tasting: Zen Haiku by Santôka Taneda. New York and

4 Poems $om Prison (1968).Haiku: #is Other World

6 Blues and Haikus

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8 Emanuel below.

9 Simply Haiku

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11 Modern Haiku12 Gilliland, Robert. Frogpond 22:1 (1999): 21.13 Frogpond14 Blues for Peace

Jazz Poems.

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17 #e Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.

18 Emanuel, James A. Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958–1989. Detroit: Lotus

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23 Wounded in the House of a Friend24 Like the Singing Coming O! the Drums

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27 Choruses: Poems by Quincy Troupe

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30 ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic A$ican-American #emes.

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32 Songs in Blue Negritude: Poems.ChickenBones. No issue number or date,

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34 Cicada 11 (4:2, 1988). ChickenBones. No issue number or

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40 #e 100 Best A$ican American Poems (but I cheated). Na-

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42 Beyond the Frontier: A$ican-American Poetry for the 21st Centurya longer poem by Lenard D. Moore.

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46 Giant Steps: #e New Generation of A$ican American Writers.

47 Betts, Tara. Simply Haiku

48 Taboo Haiku: An International Selection. Greensboro,

49 Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Frogpond

Haiku News

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