LITR 4332: American Minority Literature

Sample Student Poetry Presentation 2000

Linked below are presentation summaries for the following poems from the course's Unsettling America anthology.


Amiri Baraka, “Ka ‘Ba,” 155-56.


Michael S. Weaver, “A Black Man’s Sonata,” 227-228.


Sonia Sanchez, “Song No. 3,” 111.


Lucille Clifton, “Song at Midnight,” 111-12.


Audre Lorde, “Hanging Fire,” 297.


Gary Soto, “Black Hair,” 217-218.


Jimmy Santiago Baca, “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans,” 115-116.


Jesse F. Garcia, “I Ain’t Going to Hurry No More,” 346-347.


Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War Between Races,” 248-249.


Simon J. Ortiz, “Travels in the South,” 278-281.


Victora Lena Manyarrows, “Lakota Sister / Cherokee Mother,” 286-287.


Mary TallMountain, “The Last Wolf,” 33-34.


Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne,” 54-55.


Peter Blue Cloud, “Crazy Horse Monument,” 179-180.


Sherman Alexie, “Vision (2),” 66.


Linda Hogan, “Heritage,” 284-286.


Linda Hogan, “The Truth Is,” 295-296.