American Indian Women Writers: Introduction
Stories and Their Tellers-A Conversation with Leslie Marmon Silko
XXI From THen Badger Said This / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Legend of the Trail of Tears / Elizabeth Sullivan
Marriage / Helen Seqaquaptewa
The Great Spirit Names the Animal People: How Coyote Came By His Power / Mourning Dove
The Changing Woman / Navajo Origin Myth
The Changing Woman Story / Kay Bennett
Gallup, New Mexico-Indian Capital of the World / Leslie Marmon Silko
The Snow Keeps Falling / Janet Campbell
Zuma Chowt's Cave / Opal Lee Popkes
Storyteller / Leslie Marmon Silko
I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen / Wendy Rose
For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian / Wendy Rose
Vanishing Point: Urban Indian / Wendy Rose
There Was a Dance, Sweetheart / Joy Harjo
"Are You Still There" / Joy Harjo
Conversations Between Here and Home / Joy Harjo
Watching Crow, Looking South Towrads The Manzano Mountains / Joy Harjo
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer / Leslie Marmon Silko
Toe'Osh: A Laguna Coyote Story / Leslie Marmon Silko
Black Coat Meets Coyote / Judith Ivaloo Volborth
Three Songs to Mark the Night / Judith Ivaloo Volborth
Iridescent Child / Nia Francisco
Tomorrow Noon / Nia Francisco
Friday Noon Feelings / Nia Francisco
EveningSong / Ramona C. Wilson
Keeping Hair / Ramona C. Wilson
Contradiction / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
History of Unchi / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Some of My Best Friends / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
On a Catholic Childhood / Janet Campbell
Desmet, Idaho, March 1969 / Janet Campbell
Aaron Nicholas, Almost Ten / Janet Campbell
A Teacher Taught Me / Anna Lee Walters
Hartico / Anna Lee Walters
Thomas Iron-Eyes Born Circa 1840, Died 1919, Rosebud Agency, S. D. / Marnie Walsh
Poets/Poems / Marnie Walsh
Vickie Loans Arrow / Marnie Walsh
The Belly Dancer's Song / Anita Endrezze-Danielson
Still Life / Anita Endrezze-Danielson
Shaman/Bear / Anita Endrezze-Danielson
Making Adjustments / Anita Endrezze-Danielson
Leap in the Dark / Roberta Hill
Conversation Overheard on Tamalpais Road / Roberta Hill
Grandmother / Paula Gunn Allen
Catching One Clear Thought Alive / Paula Gunn Allen
Medine Song / Paula Gunn Allen
Black Women Writers: Introduction
Saving the Life That Is Your Own: The Importance of Models In The Artist's Life / Alice Walker
Introduction to Mules and Men / Zora Neale Hurston
Section VII From Mules and Men / Zora Neale Hurston
"Intimate Things in Place"-A Conversation with Toni MOrrison
Traditions, Narratives, and Fiction
The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff / Alice Walker
Maggie of the Green Bottles / Toni Cade Bambara
Brooklyn / Paule Marshall
The Roundhouse / Gayl Jones
1921 from Sula / Toni Morrison
I Want to Write for Gwen / Margaret Walker
Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks
The Old-Marrieds / Gwendolyn Brooks
What Shall I Give My Children? / Gwendolyn Brooks
Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat / Gwendolyn Brooks
Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett
Writing a Poem / Naomi Long Madgett
Black Woman / Naomi Long Madgett
Death is Not Master / May Miller
Place in the Morning / May Miller
I Am A Black Woman / Mari Evans
The Friday Ladies of the Pay Envelope / Mari Evans
A Good Assassination Should Be Quiet / Mari Evans
If You Say A Negro Lady /. June Jordan
In Memorian: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Part One) / June Jordan
They Clapped / Nikki Giovanni
Legacies / Nikki Giovanni
Defining It For Vanessa / Colleen McElroy
Dancing with the Fifth Horseman / Colleen McElroy
Where Iguanas Still Live / Colleen McElroy
Aunt Martha: Severance Pay / Yvonne
Conversation in Crisis / Audre Lorde
Paperweight / Audre Lorde
Rooming Houses Are Old Women / Audre Lorde
Cypress-Sassafras / Ntozake Shange
Phenomenal Women / Maya Angelou
Any Woman's Blues / Sherley Williams
The Collateral Adjective / Sherley Williams
Say Hello to John / Sherley Williams
Generations / Sherley WIlliams
Chicana Writers: Introduction
The Weeping Woman / Soledad Pérez
La Llorona / Carmen Toscano
La Llorona, Crying Lady of the Creekbeds, 483 Years Old, and Aging / Victoria Moreno
The Women of New Mexico / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca
The Dilemma of the Modern Chicana Artist and Critic / Marela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
Traditions, Narratives, and Fiction
The Street of the Cañon / Josefina Niggli
Las Dos Hermanas / Rosalie Otero Peralta
The Burning / Estela Portillo Trambley
Recuerdo / Guadalupe Valdés Fallis
Pay the Criers / Estela Portillo Trambley
Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Refugee Ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Para Un Revolucionario / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Napa, California / Ana Castillo
A Christmas Carol / Ana Castillo
Our Tongue Was Nahuatl / Ana Castillo
The Final Laugh / Angela de Hoyos
Below Zero / Angela De Hoyos
The Missing Ingredient / Angela De Hoyos
Jail-Life Walk / Judy Lucero
I Speak in an Illusion / Judy Lucero
En Publico / Voctoria Moreno
Spelling Out the Cosmos / Margarita Cola-Cardenas
Deletreando Al Cosmos / Margarita Cola-Cardenas
Gullible / Margarita Cola-Cardenas
Creidisimas / Margarita Cola-Cardenas
"Machismo is Part of Our Culture" / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
No More Cookies, Please / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
Roseville, Min., U.S.A. / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
The Advent of My Death / Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo
bailar... / Carmen Tafolla
Alli Por La Calle San Luis / Carmen Tafolla
San Antonio / Carmen Tafolla
Para Un Viejito Desconocido Que Aun Conozco / Ines Hernandez Tovar
Para Teresa / Ines Hernandez Tovar
To Other Women Who Were Ugly Once / Ines Hernandez Tovar
Chicana Revolution / Sylvia Alicia Gonzales
Asian American Women Writers: Introduction
Being Japanese-American Doesn't Mean "Made in Japan" / Joanne Harumi Sechi
Woolgathering, Ventriloquism and The Double Life / Diana Chang
Traditions, Narratives, and Fiction
No Name Woman from the Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
Las Vegas Charley / Hisaye Yamamoto
Seventeen Syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto
The Boatmen on Toneh River / Wakako Yamauchi
From Intimate Friends / Diana Chang
The Bath / Karen Tei Yamashita
My Mother, Who Came From China, Where She Never Saw Snow / Laureen Mar
Chinatown 1, 2, 4 / Laureen Mar
What Matisse is After / Diana Chang
Cannibalism / Diana Chang
Pounce the Cat / Paula Yup
The Look of Success / Teru Kanazawa
Dumb Patronage / Teru Kanazawa
Modern Secrets / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Christmas in Exile / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Potions / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
I Would Like / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Sometimes You Look Like Lady Day / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Song for My Father / Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Sing With Your Body / Janice Mirikitani
Attack the Water / Janice Mirikitani
Twenty-Year Marriage / Ai
The Country Midwife: A Day / Ai
On Writing Asian-American Poetry / Geraldine Kudaka
I Shoulda Told You / Geraldine Kudaka
It Was As If / Fay Chiang
Enigma / Helen Aoki Kaneko
Upon Seeing An Etching / Helen Aoki Kaneko
Bheind Locked Doors / Laura Tokunaga
Geography / Laura Tokunaga
Tiger Year / Laura Tokunaga
Ghost / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugee
Old Man Let's Go Fishing in the Yellow Reeds of the Bay / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugee
Chronicle / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Storytelling and Narratives