8vo. Photographic illustrations. Original publisher's illustrated orange wrappers (spine sunned). Provenance: Gordon Parks personal collection (Parks' ink stamp on back cover).

FIRST EDITION of a scarce anthology of original poems and short works by members of the Watts Writers' Workshop including director Harry Dolan, Nola Richardson, Leumas Sirrah, and two members of jazz-spoken word performers the Watts Prophets: Father Amde Hamilton (credited as Anthony Hamilton) and Otis O'Solomon (credited as Otis Smith). The Workshop was founded in the wake of the Watts Riots in September 1965 by Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg. It was the subject of an NBC documentary that helped it to secure funding and received two NEA grants. In early 1973, however, their building and theater were burned down by FBI informant Darthard Perry (Ed Riggs). RARE, OCLC locates only 1 copy at the University of Southern California.