Jazz After Dinner

Leonard A. Slade Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies, Director of the Doctor of Arts in Humanistic Studies Program, and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has published in many journals and magazines and is the author of fifteen books, including eleven books of poetry: Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer, The Beauty of Blackness, I Fly Like a Bird, The Whipping Song, Vintage, Fire Burning, Pure Light, Neglecting the Flowers, Lilacs in Spring, Elisabeth and Other Poems, and For the Love of Freedom.

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Jazz after Dinner

Jazz After Dinner

For Our Mothers

Drinking

We Must Remember

His Professor

My Friend, My Survivor

Overcharged

Thanksgiving Celebration

In Praise of Summer

Sounds

This My Father

Queen for Patrons

Freedom

He

Citizens in Heaven

How Beautiful, O God

And When I Die

I Am a Black Man

Be Grateful

New Year

Advice I Wish I Had Taken Earlier in Life

Never Forget

The Sad Adult

Be Like the Flower

Conversation

Black Philosophy

Reasons for Celebration

Classic Shed

Brown Portrait

Reasons for Celebration

The Great Mother

As a Friend

New York City

Life and Death

Golden Years

Family-Glorious

How Great You Are

When I Heard from the Tax Man

Lilacs in Spring

Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College On March 22, 1997

What is a Father?

The Black Madonna

A Child’s Play

For My Forefathers

Black and Beautiful

Black Woman

For My Forefathers

Family

Before the Death of Dad

And Want No More

Growing with Grace

A Plea for Peace

Love Should Grow, Not Wither

The Street Man

Acquaintances

Rain

Embden Pond

Cat

Pure Light 

The Country Preacher’s Folk Prayer

The Anniversary

Morning After Morning

The Countryside of Northampton

Elegy for Therman B. O’Daniel

Forgiveness