@book{pettis_2002, title={African American poets: Lives, works, and sources}, ISBN={031331117X}, publisher={Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={2002} }
 @inbook{pettis_2002, title={Margaret Walker}, booktitle={The history of Southern women's literature}, publisher={Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press}, author={Pettis, J.}, editor={C. Perry and Weaks, M. L.Editors}, year={2002} }
 @misc{pettis_2001, title={Places of silence, journeys of freedom.  the fiction of Paule Marshall by Eugenia DeLamotte}, volume={33}, number={1}, journal={Research in African Literatures}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2001}, pages={225–226} }
 @article{pettis_2000, title={Qualities of endurance: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones}, volume={30}, number={2}, journal={Black Scholar}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2000}, pages={15–20} }
 @misc{pettis_2000, title={Women of the Harlem Renaissance}, volume={72}, number={1}, journal={American Literature}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={2000}, pages={203} }
 @misc{pettis_1999, title={Anything we love can be saved}, volume={33}, number={4}, journal={African American Review}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={1999}, pages={715–716} }
 @article{pettis_barrax_1997, title={An interview with Gerald Barrax}, volume={20}, DOI={10.1353/cal.1997.0056}, abstractNote={Gerald William Barrax is a writer committed to poetry as art. Marked by originality, introspection, and intellectual engagement with a wide range of subjects, his work drawsfrom the best traditions of poetry writing. He shapes and reshapes the images, metaphors, and ideas of his poems until they satisfy his stringent requirements. His published books include Another Kind of Rain (1970), An Audience of One (1980), The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods (1984), and Leaning Against the Sun (1992). His poems appear in numerous anthologies and journals. He has been recognized by several prestigious awards, including the Raleigh Medal of Artsfor "Extraordinary Achievement in the Arts" in 1993, the Sam Regan Award for contribution to the fine arts in North Carolina in 1991, and the 1983 Callaloo Creative Writing Awardfor Nonfiction Prose. In his role as a Professor of English in creative writing at North Carolina State University, Barrax strove to communicate integrityfor the craft of poetry writing and passion for reading the best models of poetry. The following interview took place on April 6, 1997.}, number={2}, journal={Callaloo}, author={Pettis, J. and Barrax, G.}, year={1997}, pages={312–326} }
 @inbook{pettis_1997, title={Dance in African American literature}, booktitle={The Oxford companion to African American literature}, publisher={New York: Oxford University Press}, author={Pettis, J.}, editor={W. L. Andrews, F. S. Foster and Harris, T.Editors}, year={1997}, pages={197–199} }
 @inbook{pettis_1997, title={Reading Ann Petry's The Narrows into Black literary tradition}, booktitle={Recovered writers/recovered texts: Race, class and gender in Black women's literature.}, publisher={Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={1997} }
 @misc{pettis_1997, title={Scenes and sentiments for the holidays: Review of Merry Christmas, baby: a Christmas and Kwanzaa treasury / ed by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell.}, volume={73}, number={1997 Dec./Jan.}, journal={Emerge (New York, N.Y.)}, author={Pettis, J.}, year={1997} }
 @book{pettis_1995, title={Toward wholeness in Paule Marshall's fiction}, ISBN={0813916143}, publisher={Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia}, author={Pettis, J. O.}, year={1995} }