El Beso
Fragment
To Joseph Lee
Little Grey Dreams
Hushed by the Hands Of Sleep

Dorothy Vena Johnson

Jerked to God
Ode to Justice
Crystal Shreds

Anita Scott Coleman

Wisdom
Antidote
Wash Day
Black Baby
Portraiture
Black Faces
The Colorist
Negro Laughter
Of Growing Older
On Being Taken for Granted

Gil Scott-Heron

The Klan
The Bottle
ANGEL DUST
Winter In America
JOHANNESBURG
Whitey on the Moon
GRANDMA'S HANDS
I Think I'll Call It Morning
A VERY PRECIOUS TIME
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron - 2

CANE
SPIRITS
BRIDGING
LADY'S SONG
IS THAT JAZZ?
THOUGHT OUT
THE NEW DEAL
PAINT IT BLACK
BLACK HISTORY
GIVE HER A CALL
TUSKEEGEE #626
PIECES OF A MAN
BILLY GREEN IS DEAD
A TOAST TO THE PEOPLE

James D. Corrothers

The Negro Singer
An Indignation Dinner
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In the Matter of Two Men
At the Closed Gate of Justice

Sonia Sanchez

Blues
Haiku
Tanka
Ballad
To Anita
Poem #3
Poem No. 8
under a soprano sky
A Love Poem Written for Sterling Brown
A Poem for My Father (96 years old on Feb. 29, 2000)

14 haiku
Sonku [what i want]
For Sister Gwen Brooks
This Is Not a Small Voice
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil]

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

Thanks
Jasmine
Blue Dementia
Cape Coast Castle
The Body Remembers

James Weldon Johnson

Mother Night
TO AMERICA
The Temptress
Go Down, Death
The White Witch
Prayer at Sunrise
THE BLACK MAMMY
Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Word of an Engineer
O Black and Unknown Bards

My City
Sence you went away
Deep in the Quiet Wood
Beauty That is Never Old
Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)

Toi Derricotte

Market
Brother
Not Forgotten
Family Secrets
The Weakness
Workshop on Racism
Black Boys Play the Classics
For Black Women Who Are Afraid
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
On a Picture of the Buddhist Monk Pema Chodron

Passing
St. Peter Claver
Invisible Dreams
A Note on My Son's Face
From a Letter: About Snow

Ntozake Shange

"sorry"
i live in music
People of Watts
you are sucha fool
senses of heritage
With No Immediate Cause
resurrection of the daughter
My Father Is a Retired Magician
Bocas: A Daughter's Geography
Blood Rhythms - Blood Currents - Black N' Blue Stylin'

i. Mood Indigo
who am i thinkin of
for my dead & loved ones
[lady in red] "at 4:30 AM"
its happenin/ but you dont know abt it

Ntozake Shange - 4     ~ New ~

tango
live oak
box & pole
lady in blue
the old men
lady in blue II
lady in brown
18 march 1984
an actual poem
in the blueness
7 tequilas gone
take the A train
hands & holding
dream of pairing
never mind sister
latin night is monday
rise up fallen fighters
we need a god who bleeds now
once there were quadroon balls
just as the del vikings stole my heart

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Enigma
Oblivion
Dead Fires
Words! Words!
Noblesse Oblige
La Vie C'est la Vie

Touche
Rondeau
Rencontre
Oriflamme
Rain Fugue
Stars in Alabama
"Courage!" He said
Christmas Eve In France
Lolotte, Who Attires My Hair

Natasha Trethewey

Elegy
Flounder
Pilgrimage
Providence
Letter Home
Miscegenation
History Lesson
Southern History
Domestic Work, 1937
Theories of Time and Space

Margaret Walker

Dark Blood
Molly Means
Sorrow Home
Southern Song
I Want to Write
We Have Been Believers

Lineage
Childhood
Kissie Lee
For Malcolm X
For My People
Big John Henry
Love Song for Alex, 1979
Long John Nelson And Sweetiepie
THE STRUGGLE STAGGERS US

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

Langston Hughes - 3

Aunt Sue's Stories
Lament for Dark Peoples

Sterling A. Brown

Mose
Cabaret
Old Lem
Ma Rainey
Strong Men
Southern Road
Memphis Blues
Riverbank Blues
Slim Greer in Hell
Long Track Blues

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

1975
Taboo
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

Dunbar
He Said
Translation
Earth, I thank you
The Eyes of My Regret

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