Description: The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology
Brief description: Derrick Harriell is professor in the Department of English at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is former director of the African American Studies Program and Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. His previous collections of poems include Stripper in Wonderland, Cotton, and Ropes, winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award.
Review Quotes:
"Gives readers so much to hold onto, to grab, to gain, to celebrate, to contemplate, to continue this literary journey of Black human history."
--Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, 2021-2023 Louisiana Poet Laureate
"There is value in reading the Black Fire This Time series, regardless of the color of your skin. If that weren't true then we've already all failed. This is a historical artifact -- an essential artistic document, encapsulating the spirit of something impossible to encapsulate; the voices of black writers from mid-20th century, to current day. How the editors managed to compile this, is an outstanding feat in its own right. That they included LGBTQ+ and feminist black voices, is credit to their universality and understanding of true diversity and cultural appropriation in white-edited collections..."
--Candice Louisa Daquin, CounterPunch