“A poet of two centuries”

E. Ethelbert Miller and Fred Joiner on who gets to be a Black writer, giving birth to a new generation of critics, and baseball. Mentioned in this episode: In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry edited by E. Ethelbert Miller Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century edited by E. Ethelbert Miller “Winter in America” by Gil Scott-Heron “Party For Your Right To Fight” by Public Enemy “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” by James Brown “Today’s News” by Elizabeth Alexander Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings edited by Quincy Troupe and Rainer Schulte “Girlfriend” by Lori Tsang Dynamite Voices: Black Poets of the 1960s by Haki R. Madhubuti “Up and Down” by E. Ethelbert Miller