New York: Three Rivers Press/ Random House, (2001). First edition - A significant collection by poets of all ages and ethnicities - "These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But most of all, they tell it like it is. (Tony Medina, Introduction) Foreword by Dr. Sonia Sanchez. Among the contributors are Jayne Cortez, Amina Baraka, devorah major, Cornelius Eady, David Henderson, Eugene Redmond, Jeffrey Bernard Allen, and many more. Notes on contributors. xxxiii, 284 pp. ISBN: 0-609808400.