Aloud: voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

I. Poetry of the twenty-first century. Darryl Strawberry asleep in a field of dreams ; At ease / Paul Beatty

An open letter to myself ; Front page or bust ; "There must be a conspiracy" / Nicole Breedlove

Fantasy lover #5; Housecleaning / Dana Bryant

Check one ; Game boy / Regie Cabico

Lonely night in New York ; At the Aids clinic ; U.N. resolution / Xavier Cavazos

The romanticization / Samantha Coerbell

Blues tomorrow ; Wait / Malkia Amala Cyril

Rock me, Goong Hay! ; Twas the night before Chinese New Year's / Alvin Eng

The stupid jerk I'm obsessed with ; Sex goddess of the western hemisphere / Maggie Estep

Please don't take my Air Jordans ; Thomas the burnt English muffin ; Just another misunderstood brother / Reg E. Gains

No, fuck me ; You kill my love for your love for me kills me / Eliza Galaher

Sendin' out a P.B. / Christian Haye

His victim ; Peephole / Indigo

I heard the bird ; Mambo in "T" major / Tito Lespier

New York City rundown (European on me) / Tony Medina

Rebirth of New Rican ; The last Hispanic / Ed Morales

Project princess ; Morenita ; The spot / Tracie Morris.

Poem II for Annie Sexton ; She's come Undone ; Mother love / Dael Orlandersmith

Nigger-Reecan blues ; Reflections on the Metro North, winter 1990 / Willie Perdomo

Twins ; Punks jump Up to get beat down / Kevin Powell

La negra ; Celibacy / Kathy Price

Geneva Cottrell, waiting for the dog to die ; Save the animals / Carl Hancock Rux

I finally managed to speak to her ; Deformed finger ; One thing leads to another ; Sons / Hal Sirowitz

"The smells of two over" ; June 15, 1990 / Paul Skiff

We all need ; Work ; cause and effect / Peter Spiro

The emperor's second wife ; Elegy ; Address / Adrienna Su

Dig on the decade ; I.E. seducer ; Mission-fuckin'-impossible / Edwin Torres

The most beautiful word in the American language ; 7:00 and the tulips are red ; The bakery has no bakers / Mike Tyler

II. Poetry of the 1990's. Roma roja raja tabla ; Voraz Leon ; Foolish rituals / Alurista

Dust-bowl memory ; Bells ; Choices ; Black mesa / Jimmy Baca

1-800-hot-ribs ; Mr. X ; Deathwatch beetle / Catherine Bowman

Sure you can ask me a personal question ; Alphabet City serenade ; Pena's son / Diane Burns.

Tough language ; American sonnet ; Dream 7219 / Wanda Coleman

rebellion is the circle of a lover's hands (Pellin and Nina) ; Two Mexicanos lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877 ; Latin night at the pawnshop / Martin Espada

Satinlady blues; Born to act out / Jose-Angel Figueroa

Pussy & Cash ; Sun ra! / Hattie Gossett

Latin music in New York ; Skull food #2 / Jessica Hagedorn

The details we fall for ; The heat / Kimiko Hahn

Evergreen (A chant for the tropical rain forest) ; Poem-Miguel Pinero / David Henderson

1990; Disclaimer ; 6 Short poems ; Rock'n'roll mythology / Bob Holman

Spanish lesson ; Sly and the Family Stone Under the big tit, Atlanta, 1973 / Patricia Jones

God, Mingus and myself / R. Cephas Jones

Dinosaur love; What's that clicking on our telephone line? / Eliot Katz

Trickster rabbit ; Managua midnight / Roland Legiardi-Laura

Milla ; Juanita / Nancy Mercado

The uniform of the day / El sol y 'l rovato loco / Jose Montoya

Poison ; Boomerang ; Moondance / Gavin Moses

Marianita ; Portrait: Dogs at the well / Louis Rivera.

Meeting the animal in Washington Square Park ; Hungry / Luis Rodriguez

In my father's house ; Wild thing / Sapphire

To a certain Mr. Albert, My landlord ; For Irwin Heilner ; Good graces / Michael Scholnick

Skinhead ; Sweet daddy / Patricia Smith

Mandela in Harlem. (June, 1991) ; King ; Philosophy of the kool / Sekou Sundiata

Fences ; Yearning / Cheryl Taylor

"Strontium" ; Slot machine / Emily Xyz

III. Founding poems. HIV ; Sheets ; Sunday, August 11, 1974 ; Body bee calling: From the 21st century ; Father at Zero-point-place / Miguel Algarin

Mariam ; Mason V. Furey ; Interpreting dreams / Richard August

La masacre de ponce ; El Astro de Carolina / Jorge Brandon

Salicrup ; Tonight by vendor's booth / Americo Casiano Jr.

Poem to a wood sculpture ; In the pocket and Spend it right ; Piss Side streets / Lucky Cienfuegos

An essay on William Carlos Williams ; Three songs from the 50s ; Art-this ; Haikukoos / Victor Cruz.

Puerto Rican discovery #20: Ode to papiros de babel en el ateneo Puertorriqueno ; Puerto Rican discovery #17: Treasures of thieves ; Puerto Rican discovery #23: Portrait in raising self-esteem ; Two poems for David Allan / Sandra Esteves Chica ; Ditty and Jitty ; By the hair ; Danzon: The night before the war 1/15/1991 ; Untitled ; Bacalaitos and fireworks / Lois Griffith Soledad ; My graduation speech ; Sky people (La gente del cielo) ; Tito Madera Smith / Tato laviera You jump first ; Prologue for ode to road runner ; Uptown train ; Telephone booth number 102 ; Telephone booth number 227 ; Telephone booth number 507 ; Telephone booth number 905 1/2 ; Wet hand on dry dreams / Pedro Pietri La bodega sold dreams ; The book of Genesis according to St. Miguelito ; New York City hard times blues ; The records of time / Miguel Pinero A job ; Loisaida ; Paradox and sleep / Bimbo Rivas People of Watts ; Porque no estas conmigo ; Blood rhythms-blood currents-black blue n stylin' / Ntozake Shange Born anew at each A.M. ; Prologue, Seven long times / Piri Thomas

IV. The open room. Slant / Elena Alexander

The revolution was postponed because of rain / David Allen

Vacant Child / Sheila Alson

The last condors in Manhattan / Indran Amirthanayagam

Walt Whitman strides the llano of New Mexico / Rudolfo Anaya

Amnesia / Cynthia Andrews

Holding him not as a child / Zoe Anglesey

I'm a Nuyorican / Pauly Arroyo

In response to a brother's question about what he should do when his best friend beats up his woman / Asha Bandele

"Oye mama, oye, mama" / Carmen Bardeguez-Brown

Reality? / Denise Bell

Daughter / Nicole Blackman

From white trash debutante ball / Jennifer Blowdryer

A junkie's Heaven / Shorty bon bon

Kiss death softly with blue lips / Kymberly Brown-Valenzuela

Every knotted fist / Alaan Bowe

Little light / Jim Brodey

Chekovian depression / Lisa Buscani

Orange / Steve Cannon

The pretty boys of Ermita / Nick Carbo

Borinquen / Laurie Carlos

Had it been / Elizabeth Castagna

Fair prejudice / Marcel Christian

Ode to a black child (AKA Mr. America) / Gabrielle n. Lane Clarke

Lemon Brown / Todd Colby.

Science was invented by a bunch of guys who were so ugly they Couldn't possibly believe in God / Matt Cook

A man's tailor/Dakar / Thulani Davis

Mountain climb / Christina Desrosiers

For the men who still don't get it / Carol Diehl

Fear on 11th Street and Avenue A, New York City / Denise Duhamel

Are you Mrs. Lopez' daughter? / Kathy Ebel

Sleepwalking, told in slow motion / Anne Elliott

The days of pot and ice cream / Janice Erlbaum

I want to be a woman / Evert Eden

magic / John Farris

Toad venom / Gary Glazner

Walk right / Gloria

"When two straw half-featured purrings navigate" / Mia Hansford

Ah Billie / Dina Hernandez-Correa

Goodbye / Susan Hornik

Bus / Alan Kaufman

Llanto Suave para pinero / Rick Kearns

Death beds love songs and ancestors / Michael Ladd

Woman's song / Patricia Landrum

For Dizz / Shirley Leflore

Intelligent love / Gary Lenhart

Two street things / Robbie Mccauley

Proper ventilation / Richard Martin

Love / Greg Masters

My life as I remember it / Bobby Miller

G-men in the pines / David Mills.

PV / Eileen Myles

Adventures of plastic man / Ninety 9

Dire manifesto / Orion

"Po tree!" / Julie Patton

Please / Carolyn Peyser

Project blues / Raymond Ramirez

Excerpt from the South Bronx / Noel Rico

Odalisque / Keith Roach

That kind of blues / Will Sales

Pueblo Querido / Raul Salinas

25 Mayo 92 en Pullmania, Washington / Ricardo Sanchez

Los bravos / Gail Schilke

Epithalamium / Susan Scutti

My bad angel / Danny Shot

Chicago: Sandburg to Smith, Smith to Sandburg / Marc Smith

The final solution / Pamela Sneed

A testimonial / Sparrow

Panamanian nights / Carlton Spiller

For Gwen Brooks / Lamont Steptoe

Well? / Everton Sylvester

Paranioa at its finest / Nate Tate

Languer/languor / Vipin

Breaking tiles / Michael Warr

Meditations on natural man / Jack Wiler

Court appearance / Jeff Wright.