Famous Writers Section
Welcome to Mr. Africa 'Famous" Writers Section.
Here you will find poems that are written by famous
people of African American descent. Enjoy your visit!
Miscellaneous Poems: Click on the Links Below
Angelina W. Grimke
Tenebris
A Winter Twilight
The Black Finger
For the Candle Light
Sonia Sanchez ~New ~
Haiku
Ballad
To Anita
Poem #3
under a soprano sky
A Poem for My Father (96 years old on Feb. 29, 2000)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Lime
Facing It
Prisoners
Slamdunk
The Whistle
Blackberries
Believing In Iron
Ode To The Maggot
My Father's Love Letters
A Break From The Bush
James Weldon Johnson
The Temptress
Prayer at Sunrise
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Word of an Engineer
Black and Unknown Bards
Toi Derricotte
The Weakness
On a Picture of the Buddhist Monk Pema Chodron
Ntozake Shange
People of Watts
you are sucha fool
My Father Is a Retired Magician
Blood Rhythms - Blood Currents - Black N' Blue Stylin'
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Enigma
Oblivion
Dead Fires
Words! Words!
Noblesse Oblige
La Vie C'est la Vie
Natasha Trethewey
Flounder
Letter Home
Domestic Work, 1937
Natasha Trethewey - 2 ~New ~
Miscegenation
Theories of Time and Space
Margaret Walker
Dark Blood
Molly Means
Sorrow Home
Southern Song
I Want to Write
We Have Been Believers
Langston Hughes
Cross
Dreams
My People
Minstrel Man
Mother to Son
Po' Boy Blues
Dream Deferred
Dream Variations
Dinner Guest: Me
Children's Rhymes
Cultural Exchange
I, Too, Sing America
Madam and the Phone Bill
Sterling A. Brown
Old Lem
Southern Road
Riverbank Blues
Slim Greer in Hell
Claude McKay
Truth
Baptism
Heritage
Jasmine
Tormented
I Know My Soul
After the Winter
The Tired Worker
The Negro's Friend
The Tropics in New York
America
Wild May
To O.E.A.
Flame-Heart
Harlem Shadows
Song of the Moon
The Easter Flower
To One Coming North
Spring in New Hampshire
Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table
Anne Spencer
Lady, Lady
White Things
The Wife-Woman
Black Man o' Mine
Letter to My Sister
For Jim, Easter Eve
Lines to a Nasturtium
Life-Long, Poor Browning
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