In the following interview, Melhem provides an introduction to Sanchez's career, which is followed by an interview in which Sanchez discusses the influences, themes, and forms of her work.

In the following essay, Garbin discusses the themes of Sanchez's works in terms of what she calls "Sanchez's strong Southern imagination, one that was born in the impressionable times of her youth in Alabama, where the tensions of struggle were fed with mama's milk."

In the following essay, De Lancey asserts that "As [Sanchez textualizes the form, forging her Afrocentric vision and Afrocentric structure within the discipline of the haiku form, she moves closer to a unique structure that carries her own signature."]

In the following interview, Sanchez discusses her poetry and the development of her career.

In the following essay, Williams analyzes the changes that have occurred in Sanchez's poetry from her first collection, Homecoming, to her I've Been a Woman, including a new sense of rootedness.

In the following essay, Jennings describes Sanchez's aesthetics and asserts that her work has "inscribed the humanity of black people."

In the following essay, Saunders analyzes the techniques Sanchez employed in Homegirls and Handgrenades which are reminiscent of those Jean Toomer used in Cane.

In the following essay, Curb discusses Sanchez's revolutionary plays and states that the plays "dramatize the need for active cooperation among black women in political struggle for sexual as well as racial justice."

SOURCE; "The Pain of Women, The Joy of Women, The Sadness and Depth of Women," in Callaloo, Vol. 2, No. 5, February, 1979, pp. 147-49. In the following review, Williams asserts that the poems in Sanchez's I've Been a Woman speak for and to all women.

In the following review, Anderson asserts that "the poems in [Sanchez's Under a Soprano Sky are tempered and configured to scorching extremes, they are, simultaneously, her most introspective and intricate."]

In the following review, Salkey discusses the poems from Sanchez's I've Been a Woman and describes her poetry "as songs of difficult truth and harsh beauty."

Clark, Sebastian. "Sonia Sanchez and Her Work." Black World 20, No. 8 (June 1971): 41-8, 96-8. Discusses the main themes found in Sanchez's poetry and asserts that "her very life-style is perpetually proposed as a link to the ideals and realizations of Blackness which so profoundly pervades her work."