This innovative volume brings together never-before-published primary works and extensive bibliographic resources on this groundbreaking publishing venture. Materials include memoirs, retrospectives, bibliographies, and detailed archival information that are essential to scholars working in the fields of twentieth-century black poetry, transatlantic studies, and book history.

Lauri Ramey is Professor of Creative Writing and English, and Director, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

The Heritage Series: An Introduction; Essays; "The Time of the Whirlwind and the Fire:" Dudley Randall, the Heritage Series and the Broadside Press Connection; Whose Images? Waring Cuney and the Harlem Renaissance Idea of the Poet's Work; Bardic Memory and Witness in the Poetry of Samuel Allen; Russell Atkins: "Heretofore"; Clarence Major and Mark Twain Abroad; Spiritual Witness in the Poetry of Dolores Kendrick; Audre Lorde: The Voice of Multiple Consciousness; "Ray Durem: Take No Prisoners "; Owen Vincent Dodson: Faith and Sorrow; Sorrow and Faith; Calvin C. Hernton: Portrait of a Poet; Memoirs and Reflections; The Heritage Series: A Memoir (excerpts); Paul Breman's Heritage Series of Black Poetry 1; Poetry and the Heritage Series 1; Reflections on the Heritage Series; Heritage and "Black" Poetry in the 1970s; Paul Breman and Black Poetry; Ebele Oseye as Poet; The Responsibility and Power of Art; 'Bout me, 'bout you, 'bout us (excerpts) 1; The Comic Vision of Robert Hayden: A Brief Remembrance; Memories of My Father: Ray Durem; W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois in the Netherlands, 1958; Statements on Poetry and Poetics; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Statement 1; Introduction: The Wright Poems by Conrad Kent Rivers 1; On Negritude 1; First Editorial as Editor of The New African (excerpt) 1; Poems