Angela Jackson - 3

Bills
Love Plots
Vacant Lot
A Hot Mess
Club DeLisa
A Girl's Folly
Knock, knock.
God don't like ugly.
Emancipation Proclamation
Going Straight on the Right
Goodness to Its Own Reward
The House on Wentworth Avenue
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Is this the breeding ground for bitterness?
What She Said as She Was Grinding Her Up

E. Ethelbert Miller     ~ New ~

Baldwin
Beloved
Wild Pitch
The Trade
Rain Delay
The Walkoff
Barry Bonds
The Playoffs
The Pitch Out
Port-Au-Prince
The Knuckleball
The Pitch Count
Old Timer's Day
Looking for Omar
The Boys of Summer
If God Invented Baseball
Juan, Willie and The Boys
Malcolm X, February 1965
The Things in Black Men's Closets
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love

Jill Scott

Life
Envy
Music
Words
Selfish
Radio Blues
We the People
A Poet's Home
Old School Lovin'
It's the Little Things
Dis Niggah (for Leslie)
Untitled #1 (Love Sucks)
Perms, Hot Combs, and Curlers
The Downfall of a North Philly Freak
Young Buck Lovin' on the Kitchen Floor

Jill Scott - 3     ~ New ~

Caution
Pocket-Size #1
Kings at Clubs?
Revolutionary Man
Untitled #2 (for MTV Black History Month 2001)

Vievee Francis

Taking It
Inevitability
Given to Rust
Beast and Beauty
Like Jesus to the Crows

Vievee Francis - 2

Ars Poetica
White Mountain
Why I Don't Wait
Another Antipastoral
I've Been Thinking about Love Again

Sherley Anne Williams

Flo Show
I see my life
Say Hello to John
A Pavonine Truth
Listen to the drum
If he let us go now
The Peacock Song
Any Woman's Blues
This a Rap on Yo Do'
c/o Ambush     c/o Mike
A Walk into the Soft Soft
Communion in a Small Room
For Ronald King Our Brother
Blues is Something to Think About
Lines between Seekonk and Fairhaven
This Is a Sad-Ass Poem for a Black Woman, etc.

Amanda Gorman

LIFE
& SO
CALL US
ALARUM
CLOSURE
COMPASS
GOOD GRIEF
SCHOOL'S OUT
THE SHALLOWS
ARBORESCENT I
SHIP'S MANIFEST
THE HILL WE CLIMB
THE UNORDINARY WORLD
PRACTICE MAKES PEOPLE
THERE'S NO POWER LIKE HOME

Amanda Gorman - 3     ~ New ~

LUCENT
WE WRITE
RESOLUTE
BACK TO THE PAST
EVERY DAY WE ARE LEARNING

Tyehimba Jess

Mercy
What Marked Tom?
Blind Boone's Vision
Hagar in the Wilderness
martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935

Tyehimba Jess - 2

Blind Tom plays on.
"leadbelly's lessons"
Charity on Blind Tom
Freedsong: Dream Song
Blind Boone's Pianola Blues

William S. Braithwaite

Del Cascar
This is My Life
It's a Long Way
The House of Death
Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves

Alicia Keys

6:33 a.m.
mind sex
still water
damn you!
mr. jealousy
is it insane?
love in chains
beckoning green
gold of johannesburg
in my search for heaven

Alicia Keys - 2

golden child
unfulfilled keys
lady malasuerte
lilly of the valley
love with a shot of distance

Alicia Keys - 3

angel
4 letter word
such a strong word
no room for religion
when gone is the glory

Jericho Brown

Odd Jobs
Vaccinated
Heart Condition
Track 1: Lush Life
Prayer of the Backhanded

Jericho Brown - 2

'N'em
Riddle
Bullet Points
A Young Man
The Hammers

Carrie W. Clifford

God
Quest
Poetry
Together
The New Year

Chinua Achebe

1966
Flying
Answer
Lazarus
Vultures
Air Raid
Question
Love Cycle
The First Shot
Generation Gap
Mango Seedling
Their Idiot Song
Knowing Robs Us
Misunderstanding
A Wake for Okigbo
Pine Tree in Spring
Penalty of Godhead
Love Song (for Anna)
Beware, Soul Brother
Christmas in Biafra (1969)
Public Execution in Pictures
A Mother in a Refugee Camp

Clara Ann Thompson

Hope
Memorial Day
To My Dead Brother
Uncle Rube's Defense
Johnny's Pet Superstition

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