LITR 4332: American Minority Literature

Index to Student Poetry Presentations 2001

Page numbers are indexed to Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, eds. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan (NY: Penguin, 1994).


Safiya Henderson-Holmes, "Failure of an Invention," 60.

Reader: Charidy Kyslinger

Respondent: Allison Amaya Recorder: Karen Solsaa


Amiri Baraka, "Ka ‘Ba," 155-56.

Reader: Sheri Lowe

Respondent: Shellie Garza Recorder: Katherine Stokes


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

Reader: Charley Bevill

Respondent: Liz Sydnor Recorder: Jennifer Carnes


Sonia Sanchez, "Song No. 3," 111.

Poetry Reader: Maria Wilde

Poetry respondent: Sheri Lowe Recorder: Claudine Favorita


Lucille Clifton, "Song at Midnight," 111-12.

Reader: Dianna L. Ruiz

Respondent: Dennis Clifford Recorder: Ginger Cridland


Audre Lorde, "Hanging Fire," 297.

Reader: Allison Amaya

Respondent: Will Frith Recorder: Sheri Lowe


Pat Mora, "Elena," 11.

Reader: Claudine Favorita

Respondent: Maria Wilde Recorder: Charidy Kyslinger


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

Reader: Dennis Clifford

Respondent: Jennifer Carnes Recorder: Dianna Ruiz


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

Reader: Amanda Mooring

Respondent: Karen Solsaa Recorder: Will Frith


Mary TallMountain, "The Last Wolf," 33-34.

Reader: Sheri O'Rourke

Respondent: Claudine Favorita Recorder: Allison Amaya


Louise Erdrich, "Dear John Wayne," 54-55.

Reader: Ginger Cridland

Respondent: Dianna Ruiz Recorder: Amanda Mooring


Linda Hogan, "Heritage," 284-286.

Reader: Shaista Pollard

Respondent: Charidy Kyslinger Recorder: Neely Kim


Linda Hogan, "The Truth Is," 295-296.

Reader: Kenny O'Brien

Respondent: Amanda Mooring Recorder: Charley Bevill


 Peter Blue Cloud, "Crazy Horse Monument," 179-180.

Reader: Elizabeth Sydnor

Respondent: Naomi Johnston Recorder: Liz Sydnor


Sherman Alexie, "Crazy Horse Speaks," 237-240.

Reader: Naomi Johnston

Respondent: Neely Kim Recorder: Sheri O'Rourke


Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Immigrants in Our Own Land," 8-9.

Reader: Neely Kim

Respondent: Shaista Pollard Recorder: Dennis Clifford


Gary Soto, "Black Hair," 217-218.

Reader: Shellie Garza

Respondent: Ginger Cridland Recorder: Kenny O'Brien


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

Reader: Caljean Harbin

Respondent: Charidy Kyslinger

Recorder: Shaista Pollard


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.

Reader: Will Frith

Respondent: Katherine Stokes Recorder: Shellie Garza


Pat Mora, "La Migra," 367-368.

Reader: Jennifer Carnes

Respondent: Charley Bevill Recorder: Naomi Johnston