Joanne V. Gabbin is the executive director of the Furious
Flower Poetry Center and a professor of English at James Madison
University. She is the author of the biography Sterling A. Brown:
Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition and a children's book, I Bet
She Called Me Sugar Plum, and the editor of two previous Furious
Flower anthologies - The Furious Flowering of African American
Poetry and Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black
Arts Movement to the Present. She also edited Mourning Katrina: A
Poetic Response to Tragedy and Shaping Memories: Reflections of
African American Women Writers.
Lauren K. Alleyne is the assistant director of the Furious
Flower Poetry Center and an associate professor of English at James
Madison University. She is the author of the poetry collection
Difficult Fruit. A Cave Canem graduate, Alleyne was the winner of
the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Contest.
"Looking to the future through artistic expression, this timely anthology is a formidable resource." --T. L. Stowell, Adrian College, CHOICE
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