Documentation relating primarily to the publication of Black Moods, intermixed with some documentation relating to other publications. Includes a sample music rights contract for poetry; correspondence with Beth Charlton about Writings of Frank Marshall Davis; correspondence with colleagues about Black Moods; preface draft for A Blues Perspective: Reflections on Art, Labor, Politics, and Race; correspondence with the University of Illinois Press about reprint permissions and text edits; contract for Black Moods; and a recommendation for publishing Livin' the Blues by the senior editor of the University of Wisconsin Press.