This bibliography has been updated and expanded from its original publication in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, 25.1 (Winter 2002): 338-346.
Books, Dissertations and Anthologies
Algarin, Miguel and Bob Holman, eds. Aloud: Voices From the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
Anderson, T.J. III. Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004.
Baraka, Amiri and Amina Baraka. The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues. New York: Morrow, 1987.
Benston, Kimberly W. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism. London: Routledge, 2000.
Bonner, Patricia Elaine. "Sassy Jazz and Slo' Draggin' Blues as Sung by Langston Hughes." Diss. University of South Florida, 1990.
Borshuk, Michael Thomas. "Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature." Ph.D Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2002.
Brown, Fahamisha. Performing the Word: African-American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Brown, Patrick James. "Jazz Poetry: Definition, Analysis, and Performance." Diss. University of Southern California, 1978.
Buchwald, Emilie and Ruth Roston, eds. Mixed Voices: Contemporary Poems about Music. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1991.
Cerulli, Dom, Burt Korall, and Mort L. Nasatir, eds. The Jazz Word. New York: Ballantine, 1960.
Charters, Samuel. The Poetry of the Blues. New York: Oak Publications, 1963.
Chinitz, David. "Jazz and Jazz Discourse in Modernist Poetry: T. S. Eliot and Langston Hughes." Diss. Columbia University, 1993.
Feinstein, Sascha. Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Feinstein, Sascha, ed. Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz and Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Feinstein, Sascha and Yusef Komunyakaa, eds. The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
-----, eds. The Second Set: The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Gabbin, Joanne V., ed. The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Gaspar, Robert Peter. "Everyone and I Stopped Breathing: Jazz in American Poetry." Diss. University of Connecticut, 1992.
Gleason, Ralph J. Jam Session: Anthology of Jazz. 1958. Rpt. London: Jazz Book Club, 1961.
Harris, William J. The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1983.
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