Amnesia #1
Sonic Fireflies
Amnesia #3: Photographs & Videos

Jacqueline Woodson     ~ New ~

soon
after
hope
daywork
bible times
the blanket
the leavers
each winter
two journeys
the candy lady
what god knows
the almost friends
brown girl dreaming
the woodsons of ohio
it'll be scary sometimes

Gladys May Casely-Hayford

Poem
Lullaby
A Poem
Mammy
Nativity
Creation
Baby Cobina
The Serving Girl
The Palm Wine Seller

Nikky Finney

Heirloom
I Feel Good
The Clitoris
The Aureole
O' Noblesse O'
Sign Language
The Afterbirth, 1931
The Girlfriend's Train
The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt]
The Lyric Theatre: Lyceum of Dreams

Patricia Smith

Siblings
Sweet Daddy
Hip-Hop Ghazal
Prologue-And Then She Owns You
When Black Men Drown Their Daughters

Patricia Smith - 2

Medusa
Undertaker
Always in the Head
They Romp with Wooly Canines
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon

Kevin Young

Errata
Negative
Cadillac Moon
Song of Smoke
I am Trying to Break Your Heart

Effie Lee Newsome

Bats
Sunset
TURKEY
IN WINTER
Morning Light
Peacock Feather
O Autumn, Autumn!
The Bronze Legacy
The Bird in the Cage
GLADIOLA GARDEN
O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength

Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.

A Prayer
Rain Music
Supplication
And What Shall You Say?
Is It Because I Am Black?

George Marion McClellan

To Theodore
The Feet of Judas
Dogwood Blossoms
A January Dandelion
A Butterfly In Church

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Testament
Breakthrough
Prodigal Objects
Food for Thought
East of New Haven
From Space to Time
Knowing the Difference
Poem for Some Black Women
In The Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt
It Is Deep (don't never forget the bridge that you crossed over on)

Gloria Wade Gayles

Black Men
Loving Again
Heartwounds
Prince Albert Indeed: An Epitaph for My Uncle

Forrest Hamer

Pica
Grace
Lesson
Middle Ear
Crossroads
Getting Happy
Down by the Riverside
Charlene-n-Booker 4ever
A dull sound, varying now and again
13 Suppositions about the Ubiquitous

Alice Walker

Gray
WHO ?
We Alone
Expect Nothing
I Said to Poetry
EACH ONE, PULL ONE
The Old Men Used to Sing
THEY WHO FEEL DEATH
When Golda Meir was in Africa

Alice Walker - 3     ~ New ~

RICH
IN US
TOLD
EVEN SO
VASILISA
Our Martyr
YOU CAME
SOMETIMES
ENCOUNTERING
I WILL NOT DENY
YOU'D BE SURPRISED
Before I Leave The Stage
The World We Want Is Us
LOVE IS THAT GIANT BAG
The Tree Of Life Has Fallen
WATCHING YOU HOLD YOUR HATRED

June Jordan

Poem for Bob
These Poems
If You Saw a Negro Lady
One Minus One Minus One
Poem for South African Women
Poem on the Death of Princess Diana
For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka)
What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute
Poem Against the Temptations of Ambivalence
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one

from Who look at me?
Poem about My Rights
What Would I Do White
Alla Tha's All Right, but
Poem about Police Violence

Ai

Salome
The Kid
Disregard
Cuba, 1962
Conversation
Woman to Man
Motherhood, 1951
Nothing But Color
Grandfather Says
Twenty-year Marriage
Riot Act, April 29, 1992
Interview with a Policeman

Killing Floor
Passing Through
Guadalajara Cemetery
She Didn't Even Wave
Talking to His Reflection in a Shallow Pond

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