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Edited by ISHMAEL REED
with Carla Blank

A unique “gathering of the people,” Pow Wow offers urgent, vivid insights into the fault lines that separate, distinguish, and define a nation made up of many Americas.

Cover: Ann Weinstock*

Wajahat Ali, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Russell Banks, Mitch Berman,
Cecil Brown, Nash Candelaria, Wanda Coleman, Conyus, Robert Coover, Lucha Corpi, Stanley Crouch, Fielding Dawson, Vivian Demuth,
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Stanley Elkin,
James T. Farrell, Benjamin Franklin, Ellen Geist, Anna Nelson Harry, Robert Hass, Hillel Heinstein, Roberta Hill, Chester Himes,
Langston Hughes, Kristin Hunter, Zora Neale Hurston, Yuri Kageyama, William Melvin Kelley, John O. Killens, Susanne Lee,
Minjon LeNoir-Irwin, Russell Charles Leong, Walter K. Lew,
Paule Marshall, James Alan McPherson, Nancy Mercado,
Bharati Mukherjee, Alejandro Murguía, Aphrodite Désirée Navab,
Ty Pak, Grace Paley, Ishmael Reed, Danny Romero, Corie Rosen,
Floyd Salas, George S. Schuyler, Victor Séjour, Ntozake Shange,
Ray Smith, Gertrude Stein, Leon Surmelian, Mary TallMountain,
Mark Twain, E. Donald Two-Rivers, Gerald Vizenor, John A. Williams, Sholeh Wolpé, Charles Wright, Wakako Yamauchi, Frank Yerby,
Al Young, Edgardo Vega Yunqué

“Deprived of or excluded from the normal channels of communication by media increasingly monopolized by a few companies, people from diverse backgrounds and from different time periods may have no other means than writing to engage in a cross-cultural or a cross-time dialogue with one another. No other mean to comment on the important issues both historical and current: war, slavery, race, anti-Semitism, gender, class, dysfunctional family life and the like. Writing is a way by which minority thinkers can offer fresh perspectives and by which white thinkers can offer portraits of European Americans that are missing from the world as depicted by the corporate media, where all men look like Tom Cruise and all the women look like Farah Fawcett.”
– Ishmael Reed (from his Foreword)

Da Capo Press
503 pages
$19.95 U.S.
ISBN 978-1-56858-342-6 (paperback)
January 2009

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*Authors pictured on the cover of POW WOW: Nztozake Shange, Alejandro Murguía, Gertrude Stein, Benjamin Franklin