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Afaa M. Weaver

Author of Multitudes: Poems Selected & New

17+ Works 147 Members 1 Review 1 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the names: Michael S. Weaver, Afaa Michael Weaver

Also includes: Michael Weaver (2)

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Works by Afaa M. Weaver

Multitudes: Poems Selected & New (2000) 23 copies

The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 (Pitt Poetry Series) (2007) 20 copies, 1 review

My Father's Geography (Pitt Poetry Series) (1992) 16 copies

Spirit Boxing (Pitt Poetry Series) (2017) 13 copies

The Government of Nature (2013) 13 copies

City of Eternal Spring (Pitt Poetry Series) (2014) 11 copies

Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) (1995) 10 copies

These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Editor — 8 copies

A Fire in the Hills (2023) 7 copies

Water Song (Callaloo Poetry) (1985) 7 copies

Talisman (1998) 6 copies

Stations in a Dream (1993) 5 copies

The Ten Lights of God (2000) 3 copies

Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora 2 copies

Sandy Point (2000) 1 copy

A Hard Summation (2014) 1 copy

Some Days It's a Slow Walk to Evening (1989) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Art of Losing (2010) — Contributor — 237 copies, 22 reviews

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 234 copies, 4 reviews

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributor — 141 copies

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributor — 126 copies

Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contributor — 120 copies

The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 115 copies, 3 reviews

The 100 Best African American Poems (2010) — Contributor — 110 copies, 5 reviews

In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 107 copies

The Best American Poetry 2014 (The Best American Poetry series) (2014) — Contributor — 89 copies, 1 review

Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (2017) — Contributor — 68 copies, 3 reviews

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 66 copies, 1 review

Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contributor — 66 copies

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributor — 26 copies, 1 review

Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Contributor — 18 copies

Old Growth: The Best Writing about Trees from Orion Magazine (2021) — Contributor — 16 copies, 1 review

Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Contributor — 14 copies

360: A Revolution of Black Poets (1998) — Contributor — 10 copies

Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3, December 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review

Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Contributor — 7 copies

Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (2016) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Gender: male
Awards and honors: Wallace Stevens Award (2023)

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dasam 338 reviews

The plum flower dance : poems 1985 to 2005 by Afaa Michael Weaver

Some very good poems and some epscially fine lines.

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Statistics

Works: 17
Also by: 21
Members: 147
Popularity: #140,981
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 27
Favorited: 1

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