Label: Black Forum / Motown
Reissued 2022, Originally released 1972
Black Spirits: Festival of New Black Poets in America features contributions from Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), The Original Last Poets, Stanley Crouch, Norman Jordan, and more. Produced by Woodie King Jr., the 28-track collection of spoken word performances was recorded at Harlem's iconic Apollo Theater and subsequently released by Motown Records' Black Forum in 1972.
Track listing:
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) - Introduction
- Kali - Circles
- Kali - Black Is
- Kali - Ni**er, Do You
- Kali - This Little Light of Mine
- Kali - Ladybird
- Kali - What's Happening to the Heros
- Johari Amini - A Folk Fable for My People
- Clarence Major - Kitchen Chair Poem #5
- David Henderson - Boppin
- Norman Jordan - The Poet The Dreamer
- Norman Jordan - Popsicle Cold
- Norman Jordan - One-Eyed Critics
- Norman Jordan - Brothers
- Norman Jordan - The Struggle Must Go On
- Norman Jordan - Clairvoyance
- Norman Jordan - One for All
- Norman Jordan - Mind and Soul After Dark
- Norman Jordan - Allah
- Norman Jordan - Above Karma
- Aski Mohammad Toure - Notes from a Guerilla Diary
- The Original Last Poets - And See Her Image in the River
- The Original Last Poets - Song of Ditta, Part II
- Stanley Crouch - Pimp's Last Mack: A Death Request
- Jackie Earley - One Thousand Nine Hundred & Sixty Eight Winters
- Amus Moore - Hip Men
- Larry Neal - Holy Days
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) - A History Poem