Addresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr?

What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr.? What did Audre Lorde write about? Grief? How often? Who wrote the poem "Madam and the Rent Man," and where can it be found?