truth
The Egg Boiler
Young Afrikans
The Old-Marrieds
Boy Breaking Glass
A Sunset Of The City
Jessie Mitchell's Mother
The Life of Lincoln West
A Song In The Front Yard
A Pentinent Considers Another Coming Of Mary

Mae V. Cowdery

Goal
Lamps
Insatiate
Heritage
If I Must Know
The Young Voices Cry
Lines to a Sophisticate
Some Hands Are Lovelier

Alvira Hazzard

Beyond
The Penitent
Predestination
To My Grandmother

Ted Joans

THE TRUTH
"The Sax Bit"
ONE BLUE NOTE
JAZZ IS MY RELIGION
I, Too, at the Beginning

Ted Joans - 2     ~ New ~

Natural
Untitled
The Hat
Jazz Anatomy
Miss-Meat-Me
Bang Baby Bang
Le Fou de Bamba
Empty Inside Outside
The Black Jazz Smile
So Fortunately Unfortunately

Kwame Dawes

Seer
Talk
Dawn
Horns
Caution
Requiem
Coffee Break
It Bruises, Too
A Way of Seeing
The Glory Has Left the Temple

Pauli Murry

Hate
Ruth
Words
For Pan
Tongues
Conquest
Prophecy
Nazarene
A Presence
Youth to Age
Without Name
Love in Wartime
Woman and Man
Dinner for Three
Harlem Riot, 1943
To the Oppressors
For Mack C. Parker
The Song of the Highway
To Poets Who Have Rebelled
Mr. Roosevelt Regrets (DETROIT RIOT, 1943)

Terrance Hayes

saintly
Shafro
nuclear
overseas
A. Machine
Carp Poem
What it Look Like
The Blue Terrance
God is an American
American Sonnet for Wanda C.

Benjamin Zephaniah

Ageism
Cybersex
Tax Relief
Neighbours
No Problem
White Comedy
Parents Today
De Queen an I
City River Blues
Homeward Bound
Heckling Miss Lou
Walking Black Home
Save Our Sons (SOS)
The Angry Black Poet
To Be Seen, To Be Done

Leslie Pinckney Hill

My Race
Tuskegee
The Teacher
Summer Magic
Christmas at Melrose

Afaa M. Weaver

Flux
Rambling
Thelonius
Self-Portrait
The Appaloosa
American Income
Inside the Blues Whale
My Father's Geography
Losing the 440-Yard Dash
Climbing China's Great Wall

Al Young

For Poets
HOT OCTOBER
FOR ALL WE KNOW
UP JUMPED SPRING
NO PRIVACY BLUES
Key to the Dollar Store
SNOWY MORNING BLUES
UNDER CORPORATE SKIES
ONE FADING AFTERNOON, WHEN AUTUMN WHISPERED
YOU SEE HOW SEASONS TWIST THOSE CAUGHT IN THEM

Henry Dumas

FUNK
PEAS
YAMS
mosaic harlem
Knock on Wood
BROWN SOUNDS
Outer Space Blues
TAKE THIS RIVER
Island within Island
Knees of a Natural Man

Rite
Thought
America
Love Song
Son of Msippi

Phillis Wheatley

On Virtue
Isaiah LXIII
An Hymn To The Evening
An Hymn To The Morning
To a Lady and Her Children
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband
To A Clergyman On The Death Of His Lady
To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England

Olivia Ward Bush

Drifting
Misjudged
At Sunset
Abraham Lincoln
The Nation's Evil

Marcus Garvey

Get Up And Do
Get Up And Go!
Music In My Soul
The Black Mother
The Black Woman
Have Faith In Self
The Rise Of The Negro
Africa For The Africans
Hail! United States of Africa
A Black Man's Speech to a White Man in America

Lucille Clifton

Memory
Climbing
Good Times
Admonitions
Listen Children
Fury - for mama
Song At Midnight
To A Dark Moses
Seeker Of Visions
Telling Our Stories

sisters
miss rosie
cutting greens
wishes for sons
to my last period
poem to my uterus
homage to my hips
what the mirror said
the message of crazy horse
my dream about being white

Ishmael Reed

UNTITLED
Skirt Dance
Jacket Notes
FOR DANCER
KALI'S GALAXY
Earthquake Blues
from Mumbo Jumbo
A SECRETARY OF SPIRITS
beware : do not read this poem
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra

Paul Laurence Dunbar

If
Song
Retort
The Poet
The Sparrow
Unexpressed
Compensation
Changing Time
The Delinquent
Why Fades A Dream?

Absence
The Debt
The Mystery
Night of Love
Little Brown Baby
A Negro Love Song
ODE TO ETHIOPIA
NOT THEY WHO SOAR
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
THE COLORED SOLDIERS

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