INITIATES This video volume highlights the younger poets who represent the promise and diversity of Black poetry in the 1990s. As they read and discuss their work, we see how themes which emerged in the three previous video volumes are being re-worked and expanded as Black poetry prepared for the 21st century.

Elizabeth Alexander
The Dark Room Collective:
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Kevin Young
Sharan Strange
Major Jackson
Vera Beatty
John Keene