Beloit Poetry Journal: “The Assassin’s Poem,” “The Ring,” “Our Story,” and “Poopie’s  Note.”

(An Afro-American Chapbook Edited by Michael Harper)

Black Creation: “And We Are Dying” and “Children of the Corners."

Black World (Negro Digest): “Roll Call: A Land of Old Folk and Children,” “Taking to the  Townsfolk in Ideal, Georgia,” "How A New Yorker Leaves Oglethrope, Georgia," "Movietime (?) In Georgia Before The Funeral,"
“The Bond: A first love letter,” and “A  Summer’s Love Song."

Callaloo: “Canadian Sunset,” “Carousel,” “The Monster,” “Negotiating With The Devil,” "Gaines,"

 “What the Ghost of Henry Dumas Said,” “The Club,”  “When I Read Gaines,” “The Screamers,” “Encounter on the ‘A’  Train,” “The Coded Message,” “The Boy,” “The Score,” and “The  Day After We Marry.”

Hoo Doo: “How To Kill Somebody,” and “Malik, Malik: The Killing.”

Journal of Black Poetry (Kitabu Cha Jua): “Brooklyn Bridges Falling Down" and "Ode to a Muslim.”

Liberator: “One House,  No Doors.”

Nkombo: "Racist Psychotherapy."                                             ;

Obsidian: “Talking to the Mortician,” “The Wedding: As A Family Visual,”  “Snow Song: A Twenty Block Stroll,” “Moving, But Only Four  Blocks,” “Finally, Our Own Home,” “How We Made Our Fortune,”  “Sugarbrown’s Poem: For the Family Album”, “Heroinet,” “About the Rape,” “The  Lovescape,” “Doing Magic Tricks Together,” “The Dolls,”  “December,” “Burying Bones,” “The Killing of the Sparrow,”  “Shooting Ourselves Before Breakfast,” “The Untouchables,” "Go James Go," "The Days of the Casualiars."

“Roll Call: A Land of Folk and Children,” and “Talking to the Townsfolk in Ideal, Georgia,” also appeared in the CELEBRATIONS: A New Autobiography of Black American Poetry (Follett Publishing Company).

Special thanks to Random House for the use of three lines from “Rite” out of the Henry Dumas collection of poems, Play Ebony, Play Ivory.

*Other poems appeared in the Pan-African Journal, Black Dialogue, Uptown Beat, Alafia, Black News, Beau Cocoa, Etcetera, and First World.