STANDARDS (Blues poems before World War II): The weary blues / Langston Hughes --
Morning after / Langston Hughes --
Beale street love / Langston Hughes --
Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes --
Midwinter blues / Langston Hughes --
Too blue / Langston Hughes --
Note on commercial theatre / Langston Hughes --
Tired / Fenton Johnson --
The harlem dancer / Claude McKay --
Memory blues / Nancy Cunard --
Colored blues singer / Countee Cullen --
Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown --
Choices / Sterling Brown --
High brown / Nicolas Guillen --
Sootie Joe / Melvin B. Tolson --
Street-level jazz / Maxwell Bodenheim --
Funeral blues / W.H. Auden --
George Robinson: Blues / Muriel Rukeyser --
Ndesse, or "Blues' / Leopold Senghor --
Blue stanzas / Charles Edward Smith --
Red clay blues / Richard Wright and Langston Hughes --
The F B eye blues / Richard Wright --
Dicty blues / Vincent McHugh --
Down-home boy / Waring cuney --
Carry me back / Waring cuney --
Let me tell you blues singers something / Waring cuney --
Queen of the blues / Gwendolyn Brooks --
SOME SONGS: St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy --
Crazy blues / Mamie Smith --
See see rider blues / Ma Rainey --
Empty bed blues / Bessie Smith --
Backwater blues / Bessie Smith --
Gimme a pigfoot / Bessie Smith --
Wil women don't have the blues / Ida Cox --
Trouble in mind / Richard M. Jones --
Jesus make up my dying bed / Blind Willie Johnson --
Death letter blues / Son House --
Kindhearted woman blues / Robert Johnson --
Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson --
Love in vain / Robert Johnson --
Sent for you yesterday / Jimmy Rushing --
Good morning blues / Leadbelly --
Hoochie coochie man / Muddy waters --
Hound dog / Big Mama Thorton --
FORM: You know / Jayne Cortez --
Look for you yesterday, here you come today / Amiri Baraka --
Blues haikus / Sonia Sanchez --
Set. no. 2 / Sonia Sanchez --
Master charge blues / Nikki Giovanni --
Inflation blues / Margaret Walker --
Woke up crying the blues / Quincy Troupe --
Letter: blues / Elizabeth Alexander --
Cheating woman blues haiku / A. Van Jordan --
Feeling fucked up / Etheridge Knight --
FACING OFF: The blues / James C. Morris --
Married blues / Kenneth Rexroth --
Lonesome boy blues / Kenneth Patchen --
Concentration camp blues / Henry Dumas --
Outer space blues / Henry Dumas --
Reservation blues / Sherman Alexie --
Bilingual blues / Gustavo Perez Firmat --
Blues on yellow / Marilyn Chin --
Deep song / Gayl Jones --
Soledad / Calvin Forbes --
Some pieces / Calvin Forbes --
Broom song / Darrell Burton --
Sickness blues / Allen Ginsberg --
Bad mother blues / Sandra McPherson --
Rambling / Afaa M. Weaver --
Uncle bull-boy / June Jordan --
Get away 1928 / Tracie Morris --
Joe Chappel's foot log bottom blues 1952 / Sean Hill --
Swing shift blues / Alan Dugan --
The blues / Billy Collins --
FIGURES: Any woman's blues / Sherley Anne Williams --
I'm a fool to love you / Cornelius Eady --
Muddy waters & the Chicago blues / Cornelius Eady --
Leadbelly / Cornelius Eady --
Langston Hughes / Kevin Young --
Song for Langston / Willie Perdomo --
Muddy waters / Sterling Plump --
Big Mama Thorton / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers --
Poems almost wholly in my own manner / Charles Wright --
Dream song [no.40] / John Berryman --
John Berryman listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, January 1972 / David Wojahn --
Arrival / Forrest Hamer --
Not guilty / David Rivard --
Bulosan listens to a recording of Robert Johnson / Alfred Encarnacion --
FREIGHT: The blues don't change / Al Young --
Cinderella / G.E. Patterson --
Annabelle / Yusef Komunyakaa --
For you, sweetheart, I'll sell plutonium reactors / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Woman, I got the blues / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Hard-luck resume / Catherine Bowman --
Gone away blues / Thomas McGrath --
Broken back blues / Robert Creeley --
Blues / Joseph Brodsky --
Narcissus blues / William Matthews --
Special pain blues / Raymond R. Patterson --
Blackbottom / Toi Dorricotte --
How to listen / Major Jackson --
Wanda blues / Jane Cooper --
From Aubades / Albert Murray --
At the station / Natasha Trethewey --
Nosferatu blues / Jeff Fallis --
Bed music / Charles Simic --
Domestic bliss / John Yau --
Blues for Hal Waters / Bob Kaufman --
Heavy water blues / Bob Kaufman--
Heavy daughter blues / Wanda Coleman --
The things-no-one-knows blues / Terrance Hayes --
The encyclopedia of rhythm and blues / Anthony Walton --
FINALE (For Bessie Smith): Bessie / Alvin Aubert --
Homage to the empress of the blues / Robert Hayden --
Twelve bar Bessie / Jackie Kay --
Blues for Bessie / Myron O'Higgins --
Bessie Smith / Waring Cuney --
Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith / Colleen J. McElroy --
Last affair: Bessie's blues song / Michael Harper.
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