Famous Writers Section ( Part 5 )
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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
Cornelius Eady ~New ~
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
Custom
Passing
Somewhere Holy
Leda, After the Swan
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm
Audre Lorde
COAL
If You Come Softly
Fantasy and Conversation
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
Monet's Waterlilies
Frederick Douglass
Etheridge Knight
CELL SONG
As You Leave Me
Feeling Fucked Up
The Idea of Ancestry
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine
Jayne Cortez
There It Is
In The Morning
I am New York City
Jazz Fan Looks Back
PUSH BACK THE CATASTROPHES
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Wishes
Predjudice
Your World
Armageddon
The Suppliant
Common Dust
Calling Dreams
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