from analphabetic to script obsessed a history : for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf unrecovered losses/ black theater traditions my pen is a machete takin' a solo/ a poetic possibility/ a poetic imperative how I moved anna fierling to the southwest territories or my personal victory over the armies of western civilization getting where I haveta be/ the nature of collaboration in recent works why i had to dance// movement/ melody/ muscle/ meaning/ mcintyre did i hear the congregation say amen? a celebration of black survival/ black dance america/ brooklyn academy of music/ April 21–24, 1983 bang on! 2 live crew the couch the dark room dear daddy, "el amor que tu me das--" ellie, who is my mother on silk in search of a home however you come to me mr. wrong justice porque tu no m'entrende? whatcha mean you can't understand me? letter to a young poet first love