Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden

Editors: Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda Publisher: TriQuarterly (2017) Contributors: Chris Abani, Elizabeth Alexander, Cyrus Cassells, Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Vievee Francis, Nikki Giovanni, Aracelis Girmay, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. A. Van Jordan, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nathaniel Mackey, Adrian Matejka, E. Ethelbert Miller, Marilyn Nelson, Geoffrey Philip, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Tim Seibles, Matthew Shenoda, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Sharan Strange, Natasha Tretheway, Quincy Troupe, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Crystal Ann Williams Borrowing from Romare Bearden’s aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden’s Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets in the United States. Poetic echoes come forth in themes of inspiration with historical intersections of one of the greate