Columbus, OH

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work

Release year 2000

Tracklist

1
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
2
I, Too
3
The Atlanta Years (excerpt)
4
If We Must Die
5
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd
6
The Tropics in New York
7
The Creation
8
We to America
9
Nocturne at Bethesda
10
Heritage
11
Dark Symphony
12
Ma Rainey
13
Strong Men
14
For My People
15
Kissie Lee
16
The Mother
17
Dream Montage: Tell Me / Good Morning / Harlem / Same in Blues / Comment on Curb
18
We Real Cool
19
Those Winter Sundays
20
Fredrick Douglass
21
Sepia Fashion Show
22
To a Man
23
Freedom Suite
24
Crusoe's Island
25
Dahomey
26
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
27
Run Nigger
28
Admonitions
29
Nikki-Rosa
30
A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
31
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
32
Rueben, Rueben
33
My House
34
Flight to Canada
35
Betty's Ball Blues
36
Wounded in the House of a Friend
37
Song No. 2
38
A Poem for Players
39
Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985
40
Hard Rock Returns to Prison From the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
41
The Idea of Ancestry
42
Bang, Bang Outishly
43
Rhythim Blues
44
Shazam Doowah
45
The End of Civilization as We Know It
46
Cruelty
47
Lucy (Part 6)
48
Endangered Species List Blues
49
I Live for My Car
50
Nigger Rhythm Rhymes From the Blues Part of Town (Pt. 4)
51
Lester Leaps In
52
Poem for Magic
53
I Am She
54
Tuskegee Airfield
55
Facing It
56
Venus's-Flytraps
57
Rise Up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes Up with a Rastafari Man / She Can't Hold Back / She Say Smilin')
58
A Poem to Thrill the NAACP; or, A Black Family Moves to the Suburbs
59
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
60
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
61
Helen
62
Martha and Helen
63
Martha and Helen
64
1962: My Brother Richard Returns From the Monastery
65
Shakespeare Say
66
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
67
Jamal's Lamentation
68
Self Portrait, 1988
69
Barbie's Little Sister
70
The Slaughter
71
Nocturne
72
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
73
Project Princess
74
Ohm
75
No Black Male Show