From the Book - First edition.
Foreword / by Natalie Baszile --
Introduction / by Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg --
Those winter Sundays / by Robert Hayden --
Everyone beneath their own vine and fig tree : a remembering in seven parts / by Michael Twitty --
Handed the rain / by Ed Roberson --
Writing Queen Sugar / by Natalie Baszile --
Excerpt from Black and White: the way I see it / by Richard Williams --
Resilience and reinvention / with Stanley Hughes and Linda Leach --
Little farm, big dreams / with Kamal Bell --
Black to the land / by Leah Penniman --
Cutting greens / by Lucille Clifton --
The last plantation : the USDA's racist operation system / by Pete Daniel --
Father and daughter / with Harper and Ashley Armstrong --
To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / by Ross Gay --
On top of Moon Mountain / with Brenae Royal --
Money talk / with Clif Sutton and Dexter Faison --
Barking / by Lenard D. Moore --
Dispossessed : their family bought land one generation after slavery. The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave it / by Lizzie Presser --
Louisiana daughters : a conversation with Lalita Tademy and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton --
Queen Sugar, Chapter 10 / by Natalie Baszile --
Frame / by Robin Coste Lewis --
America at the crossroads : a history of enslavement and land /by Clyde Ford --
Field Day at the Hill Place / with Odis Hill --
Equal ground / with Willie Earl Nelson Sr. and sons --
Fearless / by Tim Seibles --
Four days in Alaskan Farm School / with Melony Edwards --
No better life / with the Blueforts --
Ancestral vibrations guide our connection to the land / by Jim Embry --
Remember / by Joy Harjo --
Family ties / with Esmeralda and Antonio Sandoval --
How to make rain / by Kevin Young --
Miss Rose's dirty rice / by Natalie Baszile --
A new country / with Dorcas Young --
Raised and rooted / with Deric Harper --
Making space / with Moretta Browne --
Call me by my name / by Harryette Mullen --
Wheel of fortune / with Martha Calderon --
Exceeding the "yes" / with Marvin Frink --
Swarm / by Tonya Foster --
A brief history of tobacco / by Natalie Baszile --
After tobacco / with the Wrights --
Yellowjackets / by Yusef Komunyakaa --
Home games / with Kellye Walker and Werten Bellamy --
Butter / by Elizabeth Alexander --
A love letter to future generations / by Naima Penniman --
Inside Queen Sugar: Jason Wilborn reflects of his years in the Queen Sugar Writer's Room / by Natalie Baszile --
The Boudin Trail / by Natalie Baszile --