Sonia Sanchez

Bibliography

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POETRY
 

• Homecoming, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1969.
• We a BaddDDD People, with foreword by Dudley Randall, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1970.
• Ima Talken Bout the Nation of Islam, TruthDel, 1972.
• Love Poems, Third Press (New York, NY), 1973.
• A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1973.
• I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems, Black Scholar Press (Sausalito, CA), 1978.
• homegirls and handgrenades, Thunder’s Mouth Press (New York, NY), 1984.
• Under a Soprano Sky, Africa World (Trenton, NJ), 1987.
• Continuous fire: A Collection of Poetry, Inkbook, 1994.
• Autumn Blues: New Poems, XX, 1994.
• Wounded in the House of a Friend, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1995.
• Does Your House Have Lions?, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1997.
• Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1998.
• Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1999.
• Homegirls and Handgrenades, White Pine Press, 2007.
• Morning Haiku, Beacon Press, 2010.

FOR CHILDREN

• It’s a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1971.
• The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head, illustrated by Taiwo DuVall, Third Press (New York, NY), 1973.
• A Sound Investment and Other Stories, Third World Press, 1979.

PLAYS

• The Bronx Is Next, first produced in New York, NY, at Theatre Black, October 3, 1970 (included in Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present, edited by Arthur Davis and Saunders Redding, Houghton [Boston, MA], 1971 ).
• Sister Son/ji, first produced with Cop and Blow and Players Inn by Neil Harris and Gettin’ It Together by Richard Wesley as Black Visions, Off-Broadway at New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre, 1972 (included in New Plays From the Black Theatre, edited by Ed Bullins, Bantam [New York, NY], 1969).
• Uh Huh; But How Do It Free Us?, first produced in Chicago, IL, at Northwestern University Theater, 1975 (included in The New Lafayette Theatre Presents: Plays with Aesthetic Comments by Six Black Playwrights, Ed Bullins, J. E. Gaines, Clay Gross, Oyamo, Sonia Sanchez, Richard Wesley, edited by Bullins, Anchor Press [Garden City, NY], 1974).
• Malcolm Man/Don’t Live Here No More, first produced in Philadelphia, PA, at ASCOM Community Center, 1979.
• I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t, first produced in Atlanta, GA, at OIC Theatre, April 23, 1982.
• I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays, Duke University Press, 2010.

EDITOR

• (Editor) Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Blackness Comin’ at You (poetry), 5X Publishing Co., 1971.
• (Editor and contributor) We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans, Bantam (New York, NY), 1973.
• (Compiler and author of introduction) Allison Funk, Living at the Epicenter: The 1995 Morse Poetry Prize, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1995.

PROSE

• Crisis in Culture—Two Speeches by Sonia Sanchez, Black Liberation Press, 1983.
• Conversations with Sonia Sanchez, University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

 

Also author of Dirty Hearts, 1972.

CONTRIBUTOR TO ANTHOLOGIES

• Robert Giammanco, editor, Poetro Negro (title means “Black Power”), Giu, Laterza & Figli, 1968.
• Le Roi Jones and Ray Neal, editors, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, Morrow (New York, NY), 1968.
• Dudley Randall and Margaret G. Burroughs, editors, For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and Death of Malcolm X, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1968.
• Walter Lowenfels, editor, The Writing on the Wall: One Hundred Eight American Poems of Protest, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1969.
• Arnold Adoff, editor, Black Out Loud: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1970.
• Walter Lowenfels, editor, In a Time of Revolution: Poems from Our Third World, Random House (New York, NY), 1970.
• June M. Jordan, editor, Soulscript, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1970.
• Gwendolyn Brooks, editor, A Broadside Treasury, Broadside Press (Detroit, MI), 1971.
• Dudley Randall, editor, Black Poets, Bantam (New York, NY), 1971.
• Orde Coombs, editor, We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets, Dodd (New York, NY), 1971.
• Bernard W. Bell, editor, Modern and Contemporary Afro-American Poetry, Allyn & Bacon (Boston, MA), 1972.
• Arnold Adoff, editor, The Poetry of Black America: An Anthology of the 20th Century, Harper (New York, NY), 1973.
• JoAn and William M. Chace, Making It New, Canfield Press (San Francisco, CA), 1973.
• Donald B. Gibson, editor, Modern Black Poets, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1973.
• Stephen Henderson, editor, Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic References, Morrow (New York, NY), 1973.
• J. Paul Hunter, editor, Norton Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Norton (New York, NY), 1973.
• James Schevill, editor, Breakout: In Search of New Theatrical Environments, Swallow Press, 1973.
• Lucille Iverson and Kathryn Ruby, editors, We Become New: Poems by Contemporary Women, Bantam (New York, NY), 1975.
• Quincy Troupe and Rainer Schulte, editors, Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings, Random House (New York, NY), 1975.
• Henry B. Chapin, editor, Sports in Literature, McKay (New York, NY), 1976.
• Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Understanding Poetry, Holt (New York, NY), 1976.
• Ann Reit, editor, Alone amid All the Noise, Four Winds/Scholastic (New York, NY), 1976.
• Erlene Stetson, editor, Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1981.
• Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, editors, Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, Morrow (New York, NY), 1983.
• Burney Hollis, editor, Swords upon This Hill, Morgan State University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1984.
• (Contributor) Mari Evans, editor, Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation, introduced by Stephen Henderson, Doubleday-Anchor (Garden City, NY), 1984.
• Jerome Rothenberg, editor, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1985.
• Marge Piercy, editor, Early Ripening: American Women’s Poetry Now, Pandora (New York, NY), 1987.

Poems also included in Night Comes Softly, Black Arts, To Gwen with Love, New Black Voices, Blackspirits, The New Black Poetry, A Rock against the Wind, America: A Prophecy, Nommo, Black Culture, and Natural Process.

OTHER

• Author of column for American Poetry Review, 1977-78, and for Philadelphia Daily News, 1982-83. Contributor of poems to Minnesota Review, Black World, and other periodicals. Contributor of plays to Scripts, Black Theatre, Drama Review, and other theater journals. Contributor of articles to several journals, including Journal of African Civilizations.