Furious Flower has compiled a centralized list of Dr. Gabbin’s books, published scholarship, and creative works currently available online. This resource serves as a starting point for students, scholars, and readers interested in engaging more deeply with her work and legacy.

Following a major flood at Cardinal House, the home of the Furious Flower Poetry Center in 2017, Dr. Gabbin also donated her personal and professional papers—including correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, and related documents—to Special Collections at James Madison University Libraries. This archive preserves the full scope of her scholarly, creative, and institutional contributions.

Researchers may request an appointment to view the Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin Collection through JMU Special Collections.

Dr. Gabbin’s full curriculum vitae is also available for reference.

Books (Edited and Authored)

• Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition. Reprint edition. Charlottesville, Virginia:  University Press of Virginia, 1994. 

• The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.   

• The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry (second printing). Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 

• Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.  

• Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 

• Mourning Katrina, A Poetic Response to Tragedy, Mariner Companies, Inc (2009)

• Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Eds. Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020. 

Creative Work

• 

  Phoenix, a poem published in the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American

• Poetry, 1984 Edition, edited by Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills: Monitor Book Company, Inc., 1984, p. 161. 

• Grandpa: Appendage to His Story, (poem) in Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Rec

• ipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.

• Pot Meals (poem) in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Ed. Nikky Finney. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 

• Black Stone Iowa Review 51, 2022 (2): 4–7.