In ‘After Mecca’: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement, Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black arts Movement and black women writers of the period.  Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, and Alice Walker  . . . chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetics and its relationship to the black community’s struggle for rights and liberation.  “This is the only book-length treatment of Black women poets of the Black Arts Movement . . . and their impact on the poets who succeeded them”–Beverly Guy-Sheftall.  Published in 2005 by Rutgers University Press. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/After%20Mecca