Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / [edited by] Patricia Bell-Scott.

In her womb / Gwendolyn J. Dungy
Chocolate tears and dreams / Evelyn C. Rosser
Fire and snow / Deborah E. McDowell
Myself / Tinuke Oluyomi
Weeds / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux
Arrival / Al
At an artist's colony / Toi Derricotte
A sistah outsider / Shamara Shantu Riley
The sins of our fathers / Dakota Wells
Oreo blues / Carole Stewart McDonnell
A hair piece / Paulette M. Caldwell
Black woman artist becoming / Bell Hooks
The house that Jill built / Rita Dove
Sometimes a poem is twenty years of memory / Carroll Parrott Blue / At Yaddo / Barbara Smith
Not letting go of my anchor / Viki Radden
Breaking the ties that bind me / Ann Lynn
Setting relationship limits / Yin Quilter
Golden boy / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux
Three daughters / Dawn B. Bennett-Alexander.

Reflections of breaking glass / Sapphire
Love in the time of AIDS / Ama R. Saran
Writing, screaming, and healing / R. H. Douglas
Holding on and remembering / Belvie Rooks
Flashbacks and wounded children / Patricia Bell-Scott
The cancer journals / Audre Lorde
The years in between / Elaine Shelly
A small place / Jamaica Kincaid
And still Risë / Risë Collins
The Boston murders / Barbara Smith
Milwaukee uncle / Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux
Starting over / Miriam Decosta- Willis