Famous Writers Section ( Part 5 )
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
Helene Johnson
Poem
Magalu
My Race
Invocation
To an Icicle
Trees at Night
Summer Matures
What do I care for Morning
Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem
Kalamu Ya Salaam ~New ~
Love
Madpoet
(untitled)
Tasty Knees
HIWAY BLUES
We Say, Bechet
PA FERDINAND
Be About Beauty
i'm looking for a love
NTOZAKE SHANGE
NAMES, PLACES, US
Govern Yrself Accordingly
all that's black ain't brother
even death will not stop me from struggling
...AND RAISE BEAUTY TO ANOTHER LEVEL OF SWEETNESS
Gwendolyn Bennett
Hatred
Advice
Epitaph
Fantasy
Heritage
Nocturne
Purgation
Moon Tonight
To A Dark Girl
Street Lamps in Early Spring
Cornelius Eady
Grief Bird
Nature Poem
LEADBELLY
Tubman's Rock
JEMIMA'S DO-RAG
Hardheaded Weather
HESITATION BLUES
RODNEY KING BLUES
BUCKWHEAT'S LAMENT
Elizabeth Alexander
Race
Blues
Ladders
Peccant
Emancipation
Autumn Passage
Stravinsky in L.A.
Carl Phillips
Hymn
Custom
Passing
Domestic
Luna Moth
White Dog
Somewhere Holy
A Kind of Meadow
Leda, After the Swan
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm
Audre Lorde
COAL
Power
Recreation
Sisters in Arms
A Woman Speaks
If You Come Softly
Who Said It Was Simple
Fantasy and Conversation
Father Son and Holy Ghost
Rooming Houses are Old Women
Dudley Randall
Ballad of Birmingham
"Booker T. and W.E.B."
The Profile on the Pillow
A Poet Is Not a Jukebox
Derek Walcott
Blues
Codicil
Parang
PENTECOST
Midsummer, Tobago
A Far Cry from Africa
A City's Death by Fire
Robert Hayden
Soledad
Perseus
Full Moon
Witch Doctor
Monet's Waterlilies
Frederick Douglass
Those Winter Sundays
The Ballad of Nat Turner
El-hajj Malik El-shabazz (malcolm X)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
Etheridge Knight
CELL SONG
As You Leave Me
Feeling Fucked Up
The Idea of Ancestry
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine
Jayne Cortez
Poetry
SUMMIT
There It Is
MAKE IFA
Rose Solitude
In The Morning
I am New York City
Jazz Fan Looks Back
Under the Edge of February
PUSH BACK THE CATASTROPHES
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Wishes
Predjudice
Your World
Armageddon
The Suppliant
Common Dust
Calling Dreams
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