Poem: "Belly Song"
From Belly Songs and other poems
Broadside Press, 1968

Notes of an Oral Rhapsodist:
An Introduction to the Poetry and Aesthetic of Etheridge Knight
By Thomas C. Johnson (Edited by Rodger Martin)

Making Up Poems
By Haki R. Madhubuti

The Bones of my Father
From Belly Songs and other poems
Broadside Press, 1973

The Idea of Ancestry
From Poems From Prison
Broadside Press, 1968

10th Anniversary 1965 - 1975 Broadside Memories: [File size 7MB]
Poets I Have Known
by Dudley Randall

Various Tributes to Mr. Etheridge Knight

Junior's Birthday Poem

One Wing
By Eunice Knight-Bowens

A Poem For Etheridge
By James R. Depp

Poet Dying at the Window
By Terrance Hayes

U Saved My Poem
By Mijiza

Etheridge Knight Sr.
(Etheridge's Father)

March 12, 1905 - May 22, 1950

Lois Ivy (Honey) Knight
(Etheridge's Sister)

October 26, 1940 - November 24, 1982

Charles Edwin Knight
(Etheridge's Brother)

June 7, 1926 - August 24, 1985

Etheridge Knight Jr.

April 19, 1931 - March 10, 1991

Mrs. Belzora Cozart Knight Taylor
(Etheridge's Mother)

September 11, 1907 - October 13, 1997

Ms. Kazuko Marilyn Knight
(7 year old niece referred to in
"The Idea of Ancestry")

June 21, 1953 - Ocotober 6, 2003

Floyd Knight Sr.

1928 - 2006