Famous Writers Section ( Part 4 )

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

Jean Toomer

People
Tell Me
Reapers
For M.W.
Conversion
Unsuspecting
Evening Song
The Lost Dancer
Portrait in Georgia
Her Lips Are Copper Wire

Jay Wright

Lundú
The Measure
What Is Good
The Homecoming Singer
Love in the Weather's Bells
The Cradle Logic of Autumn
The End of an Ethnic Dream
Meta-A and the A of Absolutes
The Healing Improvisation of Hair
Love in the Water, Love in the Stone

Michael S. Harper

Grandfather
Double Elegy
American History
Here Where Coltrane Is
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song

Haki Madhubuti

destiny
change-up
my brothers
blackwoman
IS TRUTH LIBERATING?

James A. Emanuel

Emmett Till *
Wishes, For Alix
Michael Jackson
Four-Letter Word
Bojangles And Jo
Poet As Fisherman
A Fool For Evergreen
The Young Ones, Flip Side
« I'm A Jazz Singer, » She Replied
Louis Armstrong And Duke Ellington

George Moses Horton

False Weight
The Gospel Feast
A Meteor Flashing
On the Conversion of a Sister
Death of a Favorite Chambermaid

Eugene B. Redmond

The Eye in the Ceiling
Consider Loneliness as These Things

Eugene B. Redmond - 2     ~New ~

A Kwansaba for Mother Richie
Lookingback, Jazzstained Jayne
A Tale Of Two Toms (Or Tom-Tom)
Choreo-Empress' Leg-a-cy Lands on East Saint Earth, 2nd Take

Amiri Baraka

Ka'Ba
Wise I
Incident
Monday in B-Flat
Babylon Revisited
In Memory of Radio
Notes For a Speech
Balboa, the Entertainer
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Arna Bontemps

Reconnaissance
God Give to Men
Southern Mansion
THE DAY-BREAKERS
Nocturne of the Wharves
A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Tupac Shakur

I Cry
Jada
Fallen Star
And 2Morrow
When Ure Hero Falls
Liberty Needs Glasses
Ambition Over Adversity
In The Depths of Solitude
In the Event of My Demise
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Can You See the Pride in the Panther

Wanda Coleman

the ISM
Watching
Mastectomy
Bedtime Story
The Deuce of Cups
The California Crack
American Sonnet (35)
Nobody Wants To Know My Name
They Came Knocking On My Door At 7 A.M.
Sweet Mama Wanda Tells Fortunes For A Price

Marilyn Nelson

Dusting
Churchgoing
Minor Miracle
Daughters, 1900
Mama's Promise
The House on Moscow Street

Countee Cullen

Incident
The Wise
For a Poet
For A Lady
Yet Do I Marvel
Saturday's Child
The Loss of Love
Fruit of the Flower
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds

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