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Below are poetic expressions of Yohannes
Sharriff Smith and the artistic expressions of others from around the world and
throughout history. For more a brief bio
on our poet in residence, click on Directors. His poetic insights, as well as the artistic
contributions of others, intuitively capture the messages of particular issues
of The DISH.
Volume
11 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2008
ªIssue 1 Ode to the White
Blood Cell…By Daisy and Jessica Mashª
Issue 2 Remembering A
Life…By Nordette Adams
Issue 3 Changing of the Guard…By Yohannes Sharriff
Issue 4 Paul Bogle…By Abdel Wright
Issue 5 Inner City Blues…By Marvin Gaye
Issue 6 Everything Must Change…By Benard Ighner
Issue 7 Apology…By Tina K
Issue 9 Bid ‘Em In
…By Oscar Brown, Jr.
Issue 10 New World
Order…By Curtis Mayfield
Issue 11 Where
Have All the Flowers Gone…By Pete Seeger
Issue 12 A Black
American…By Smokey Robinson
Issue 13 School: 1957 vs. 2007…By Anonymous
Until Then…By Memphis Blue Issue 14
Up! Education…By Sylvia Child Issue 15
Ella’s Song…By Bernice Johnson Reagon
Issue 16
A Dream Deferred…By Langston Hughes Issue
17
Who Killed McDuffie? A Definitive Question…By
Hakim Al-Jamil Issue 18
Noose…By tyler Howat Issue 19
Racism is Around Me Everywhere…By Francis
Duggan Issue 20
Some Just…By Francis Duggan Issue 21
Volume
10 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2007
ªIssue 1 The Urge to Surge"…By
Mumia Abu-Jamal ª
ªIssue 2 Greatest Love of All…By
Michael Masser and Linda Creed ª
ªIssue 3 All Shook Up…By Otis Blackwell ª
ªIssue 4 Deception…By John Burl Smith ª
ªIssue 7 Ball of
Confusion…By The Temptationsª
ªIssue 8 Is it For
Freedom?...By Sara Thomsenª
ªIssue 12 Israel Slaughters Palestine…By Genevieve Cora
Fraser (2004) ª
ª Issue 13 Democracy…By
Langston Hughes ª
ª Issue 14 Making Freedom
a Verb…By Rodney Coates ª
ªIssue 15 For the
Confederate Dead…By Kevin Youngª
ªIssue 16 The
Butterfly…By John Burl Smithª
ªIssue 18 Blaming
Poverty on the Poor…By Josephine Dixon-Banksª
ªIssue 19 Harriet
Beecher Stowe…By Paul Laurence Dunbarª
ªIssue 20 I Love My
People!...By Yohannes Sharriffª
ª Issue 21 Copper John By Yohannes Sharriff ª
ª Issue 28 Housing
Bubble …By Anonymous ª
ª Issue 30 Monster…By Kay, Edmonton, Nicholas & Byrom
ª
ª Issue 31 Baroque Down Blankety-Blank…By B. Nice ª
ª Issue 33 Farming Mushroom Clouds…By B. Nice ª
ª Issue 34 Deception…By John Burl Smith ª
ª Issue 35 Dogs of War ª
ª Issue 36 Songs for the People…By Frances E.W. Harper
ª
ª Issue 37 Blowin’ in the Wind…By Bob Dylan ª
ªIssue 38 Israel’s Wall of Silence…By Genevieve Cora
Fraserª
ªIssue 39 Beautiful Black Child (An Ode to the Jena 6)….By
Yohannesª
ªIssue 40 Someday We’ll All Be Free…By Donny Hathawayª
ªIssue 41 Only a Pawn in Their Game…By Bob Dylanª
ªIssue 44 Lynching…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
ª
ªIssue 46 Black Man’s Burden…By Kerri-Ann Smithª
ªIssue 49 Confession…By Yohannes Sharriffª
ªIssue 50 Difficult Children…By Gene Bedleyª
ªIssue 52 Cancer Cells…By Harold Pinterª
Volume
9 ª ª ª ª ª ªªªªª ª ª ª ª 2006
Living For The City …By Stevie Wonder Issue (902)
Thru These Eyes…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (903)
My Poem (1968)…By Nikki Giovanni Issue (904)
Walls…By
Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue
(905)
Found in the Free Library…By Eleanor Wilner Issue (906)
Armageddon!!...By
Yohannes Sharriff Issue
(907)
Changing of the Guard…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (908)
I Call to My Brothers!!!...By Yohannes Sharriff Issue (909)
Trail Of Tears…By sandygram Issue (911)
Architects of Time…By Sandra S. Corona Issue
(915)
Alone At the Plate
Issue
(916)
Snow
(1936)…By Mao Tse-Tung Issue
(917)
Seen…By Lisa
Detweiler Issue
(918)
The Baddest Black Woman I Know (My Mama)…By Yohannes
Sharriff Issue
(919)
African Phoenix…By Bashir Goth Issue (920)
Health Warning: Capitalism Kills You (Excerpts)…By Jo
Swift Issue (921)
Beyond the Pale…By John Maxwell Issue (923)
Hypocrisy…By Neil Harding McAlister Issue (925)
Palestine Has No Partner in Peace…By Genevieve Cora
Fraser Issue (926)
Rivers of Blood Flow thru the Corporate-Spine Spin…By
Diana Gwinn Issue
(929)
Distracted, damn right I am! (Excerpts)…By Georgia
Stillwell Issue
(931)
Tetraktys VII…By
Jan Haag Issue (932)
Pre-Requiem…By
John M Swails Issue
(933)
Childhood…By Margaret Abigail Walker Issue (934)
My Hero…By
Tim Meister Issue
(935)
Heroes…By C
A Webb Issue (936)
The Restless Consumer…By Neil Young Issue
(937)
Ballad of Birmingham …By Dudley Randall
(1914-2000) Issue
(938)
Requiem for America: Wake Up American
World Citizens!...By Mankh (Walter E.
Harris III) Issue
(939)
Poetic Soldier…By
John M. Swails Issue
(940)
Dreams…By
Yohannes Sharriff Issue
(941)
The Quadroon Girl…Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Issue (942)
Don't Let Our Hair Divide Us…By Carolyn Hopkins
Issue (943)
The Election…By
Jessica Issue (944)
Africa..By Maya Angelou Issue (945)
The Passage…By
Christopher Okigbo Issue
(946)
Wrong on all Counts…By Former US Rep. Paul
Findley Issue (947)
I Wish Thanksgiving Were For All of Us…By Jeralyn
Merritt Issue (948)
Tin Star Diplomacy…By Ellen Griffith Issue
(949)
On An Underground Railroad…By Kinny Landrum
Issue
(950)
Volume
8 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2005
ªPhenomenal Woman…By
Maya Angelou Issue
(802)
Just a Racket…Smedley Darlington Butler
(1881-1940) Issue
(804)
An Artist’s Plea…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith Issue (805)
Magicians…By
John M. Swails Issue
(806)
ªGood Daze: da Cipher…By Yohannes Sharriff Smith Issue (808)
Negro Hero…By
Gwendolyn Brooks Issue
(810)
Where There’s Smoke…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue
(812)
The Slave's Complaint…By George Moses Horton Issue (813)
Nothing But Stones…By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Issue (815)
My People…By The Last Poets Issue (816)
Taxation
Poem …Author
Unknown Issue
(817)
Alarmed…By
Yohannes Sharriff Issue
(818)
Builder…By
Unknown Issue (819)
Reality…By Margaret
Issue
(820)
ªThe Debt Unpayable…By Francis
William Bourdillon (1852-1921) Issue
(821)
The Times They Are A 'Changin'…By Bob Dylan Issue (823)
On "Lynching Song"…By Onwucheka Jemie Issue (824)
Ghost Warriors…By Donald Hook Issue
(825)
On Rongelap Radiation…By Chiyoko Tamayose Issue (826)
"Love Doctor" (excerpts)…By Tiy-E
Muhammad Issue (827)
People of Soul
…By Oscar Brown, Jr. Issue
(828)
Atomic Skies Falling…By Carah Ong Issue (830)
ªO’ Freedom! Issue
(831)
Feeling Disorganized…By Dave Collins Issue (839)
Prejudice…By
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer (1907) Issue
(840)
Injustice of the Courts…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins
Moorer (1907) Issue (841)
The Industry of Life…By Anonymous Issue (842)
Why Negroes Don't Unite…By Lizelia Augusta Jenkins
Moorer (1907) Issue
(843)
…Pipe and Can…By Anonymous (17th Century) Issue (844)
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock…By Gwendolyn Brooks
Issue
(845)
Rapture…By Lorna Crozier Issue (848)
Battle Song…By
Z'etoile Imma Issue
(849)
ªHome of the Slave
(Excerpt)…By Daniel Glover Issue
(850)
The Spying Spider…By Don Tidwell Issue
(851)
Black History Poem…By Celly Torrez Issue
(852)
Volume 7 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2004
Issue 4 Black Rage…By Crystal Cartier ª
Issue 7 Superstar (Slap the S**t out of You)…By Yohannes Sharriff ª
ªHam and Cheese: Linear Secularism…By Yohannes Sharriff Issue 22
Still I Rise…By Maya Angelou Issue 28
Smiling Faces Sometimes (song)…Written by Norman
Whitfield and Barrett Strong Issue 29
ª Lemonade…By Yohannes Sharriff
Smith Issue
30
The Lawyers' Ways…By Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906) Issue 31
The White Man's Burden…By J. Rudyard Kipling Issue 34
ª Orange Agent…By Nguyen Thi Lan
Issue 35
New National
Anthem…By Herb O. Buckland Issue 36
ªAmerica…By Maya Angelou Issue 37
Song for the Old
Ones…By Maya Angelou Issue 38
Full-Figured
Potential: A Fat Girl's Blues… By
Georgia Me Issue 39
Newspaper…By
Anu Jagannath Issue (742)
No Struggle, No Progress…By Frederick Douglass (1857) Issue
(743)
Empire of Oil -- Forever?...By Mumia Abu-Jamal Issue
(744)
Come, All Ye Chosen Saints of God (Part I)…By Joseph Hart (1712-1768) Issue (745)
I Saw a Chapel…William Blake (1757-1827) Issue
(746)
The Perpetual War Machine…By S.M. GRAY Issue
(747)
Where Air of Freedom Is…By Walter Everett Hawkins Issue
(748)
A Peck of Gold…By
Robert Frost Issue (751)
Volume
6 ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª ª 2003
Issue 1 "I am the Speaker" ª
Issue 6 Valentine's in the Middle of Black History ª
Issue 50 Teach Them How to Fly…By Crystal Cartier ª
Issue 51 Innocence…By Shabaka Tecumseh ª
Issue 52 To Alisha: A Budding Word Artist…By Yohannes Sharriff ª