Bury me in a free land 1770-1899. On imagination ; On recollection ; On the death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ; To S. M. a young African painter, on seeing his works ; To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston / Jupiter Hammon -- [Bars fight] / Lucy Terry -- A mathematical problem in verse / Benjamin Banneker -- To Eliza ; The slave's complaint ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The art of a poet ; George Moses Horton, myself / George Moses Horton -- An appeal to woman ; The grave of the slave / Sarah Louisa Forten -- Concatination [Selected pottery verses, 1834-1862] / David Drake -- The natives of America ; Reflections / Ann Plato -- Armand Lanusse: Epigram ; Camille Thierry Ideas ; Pierre Dalcour: Verse written in the qlbum of Mademoiselle _____ ; Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and devotion / Les Cenelles -- America ; To Cinque / James M. Whitfield -- Hope and confidence / Charles L. Reason -- A life-day / George B. Vashon -- The emigrant / Benjamin Clark -- Song for the first of August / James Madison Bell -- A June song ; A parting hymn ; In the earnest path of duty / Charlotte Forten Grimké -- Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Self-mastery / Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- The rape of Florida ; A question / Albery A. Whitman -- The slave mother ; Bury me in a free land ; Learning to read ; A double standard ; Songs for the people / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
Lift every voice 1900-1918. The house of falling leaves / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Driftwood / Olivia Ward Bush -- America ; Character or color--Which? ; Little mother / Carrie Williams Clifford -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / James D. Corrothers -- A prayer ; And what shall you say? ; Supplication ; A woman at her husband's grave / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- A litany at Atlanta / W. E. B. Du Bois -- We wear the mask ; A Negro love song ; When Malindy sings ; When de co'n pone's hot ; An Ante-Bellum sermon ; Sympathy ; A death song ; Compensation / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Violets ; I sit and sew ; The proletariat speaks / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The Black finger ; A Mona Lisa ; El beso ; You ; Rosabel ; The eyes of my regret ; Trees ; Tenebris ; Grass fingers ; To keep the memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Wooing ; A spade is just a spade ; Here and hereafter / Walter Everette Hawkins -- Retrospect / Josephine D. Heard -- When I die ; The lonely mother ; Who is that a-walking in the corn? ; African nights / Fenton Johnson -- Lift every voice and sing ; Sence you went away ; O Black and unknown bards ; My city ; Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- The fledgling poet and the poetry society / George R. Margetson -- Ode to the sun / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- To a little colored boy / Priscilla Jane Thompson -- The new Negro / Lucian B. Watkins.
The dark tower 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ; Negro woman ; Effigy / Lewis Grandison Alexander -- Heritage ; Lines written at the grave of Alexander Dumas ; Fantasy ; To a dark girl ; Dirge for a free spirit ; I build America ; Epitaph / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- The return ; A Black man talks of reaping ; Southern mansion ; The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps -- Ma Rainey ; Old Lem ; Slim Greer ; Strange legacies ; Southern cop ; To a certain lady, in her garden ; Let us suppose / Sterling A. Brown -- Portraiture ; Black baby ; Impressions from a family album ; Coveted epitaph ; Denial ; Idle wonder / Anita Scott Coleman -- Longings ; Goal ; Farewell ; Having had you ; Four poems--after the Japanese ; For a new mother ; I look at death / Mae V. Cowdery -- Yet do I marvel ; Incident ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Heritage ; Epitaphs ; From the dark tower ; Uncle Jim ; Scottsboro, too, is worth its song / Countee Cullen -- No images ; Nineteen-twenty-nine ; My Lord, what a morning ; Down-home boy ; Carry me back / Waring Cuney -- The mask ; Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Dead fires ; La vie c'est la vie ; Oblivion / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- My last name / Nicolás Guillén -- Notes found near a suicide / Frank Horne -- The Negro speaks of rivers ; The weary blues ; Mother to son ; Jazz band in a Parisian cabaret ; Beale Street love ; Cross ; Personal ; Midwinter blues ; Bound no'th blues ; Dream variations ; I, too ; Song for a dark girl ; Let America be America again ; Montage of a dream deferred ; Madam and the rent man ; Ask your mama / Langston Hughes -- The singer ; The maestro / Eva A. Jessye -- The heart of a woman ; Cosmopolite ; Black woman ; Old Black men ; Common dust ; I want to die while you love me ; Interracial / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem ; Invocation / Helene Johnson -- Jamaica market / Agnes Maxwell-Hall -- Christmas in de air ; The Harlem dancer ; Harlem shadows ; If we must die ; On Broadway ; The tropics in New York ; The lynching ; America ; My mother ; "The white man is a tiger at my throat" / Claude McKay -- Man and maid / Myra Estelle Morris -- Shadow / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Requiem ; This is my vow / Lucia Mae Pitts -- October prayer ; Flag salute / Esther Popel -- Black and blue ; The tree of hope / Andy Razaf -- At the carnival ; White things ; Sybil warns her sister / Anne Spencer -- Five vignettes ; Her lips are copper wire ; Cane ; Essentials ; Be with me / Jean Toomer.
Four: Ballads of remembrance 1936-1959. To Satch (American gothic) ; Nat Turner or Let him come ; If the stars should fall / Samuel Allen -- Narrative ; Night and a distant church ; It's here in the ; Spyrytual / Russell Atkins -- A street in Bronzeville ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; The bean eaters ; We real cool ; A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock ; The lovers of the poor ; Malcolm X ; The second sermon on the Warpland ; Paul Robeson ; The life of Lincoln West ; The boy died in my alley ; Infirm ; I am a Black ; An old Black woman, homeless, and indistinct / Gwendolyn Brooks -- To Julia de Burgos ; Ay, ay, ay of the kinky-haired Negress ; Poem of the unborn child ; Farewell in Welfare Island ; The sun in Welfare Island / Julia de Burgos -- The small bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's attic / Margaret Danner -- Ebony under granite ; Mojo Mike's beer garden ; Four glimpses of night / Frank Marshall Davis -- Sorrow is the only faithful one ; The morning Duke Ellington praised the Lord and six little Black Davids tapped danced unto / Owen Dodson -- Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle Passage ; Runagate runagate ; A letter from Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; [American journal] / Robert Hayden -- The truth ; Jazz is my religion ; The nice colored man / Ted Joans -- Hawk Lawler: Chorus ; I, too, know what I am not ; Would you wear my eyes? ; War memoir ; Walking Parker home ; Crootey Songo ; Heavy water blues ; Blues for Hal Waters ; Oregon / Bob Kaufman -- Dark testament ; Prophecy / Pauli Murray -- A private letter to Brazil ; Review from Staten Island ; Man white, brown girl and all that jazz / Gloria C. Oden -- Young poet / Myron O'Higgins -- Harlem dawn ; A definition ; Jean-Jaques / Oliver Pitcher -- Booker T. and W.E.B. ; An answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire on a name for Black Americans ; A poet is not a jukebox / Dudley Randall -- Ballad of American mores ; Face of poverty / Lucy E. Smith -- Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery, book I: The curator / Melvin B. Tolson -- For my people ; Molly Means ; October journey / Margaret Walker -- Between the world and me ; Selected haiku / Richard Wright.
Ideas of ancestry 1959-1975. Still I rise ; Phenomenal woman / Maya Angelou -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Look for you yesterday, here you come today ; Notes for a speech ; The liar ; Short speech to my friends ; Three modes of history and culture ; SOS ; Black art ; Why's 12 / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- King: April 4, 1968 / Gerald Barrax -- Blues ; All God's chillun ; The white river ; Sam Lord / Kamau Brathwaite -- "in the inner city" ; miss rosie ; good times ; admonitions ; "being property once myself" ; the lost baby poem ; some jesus ; cutting greens ; homage to my hips ; "the light that came to lucille clifton" ; jasper texas 1998 ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; "i am accused of tending to the past" ; Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ; study the masters ; to my last period ; wishes for sons ; "surely i am able to write poems" ; "won't you celebrate with me" / Lucille Clifton -- How long has Trane been gone ; Orisha ; Rape ; Jazz fan looks back / Jayne Cortez -- Son of Msippi ; Black Star Line ; Outer space blues / Henry Dumas -- I am a Black woman / Mari Evans -- I would be for you rain / Sarah Webster Fabio -- High on the hog / Julia Fields -- Black power ; Nikki-Rosa ; For Saundra ; Ego tripping ; A poem for Carol ; Legacies / Nikki Giovanni -- American history ; Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; Nightmare begins responsibility ; Reuben, Reuben ; Tongue-tied in black and white ; Last affair: Bessie's blues song ; The love letters of Helen Pitts Douglass / Michael S. Harper -- Do nothing till you hear from me ; A Coltrane memorial / David Henderson -- Medicine man / Calvin Hernton -- What would I do white? ; These poems ; I must become a menace to my enemies ; Poem about my rights ; Poem for Haruko / June Jordan -- Blues for some lerary friends & myself ; For Art Blakey and the jazz messengers / Keorapetse Kgositsile -- A poem for myself ; The idea of ancestry ; The bones of my father ; Haiku ; For freckle-faced Gerald ; The violent space ; Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; For Eric Dolphy ; Feeling fucked up / Etheridge Knight -- On being head of the English Department / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Coal ; Revolution is one form of social change ; A litany for survival ; Power ; Lunar eclipse ; Inheritance--his / Audre Lorde -- But he was cool ; Don't cry, scream / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Swallow the lake ; Hair / Clarence Major -- Malcolm X--an autobiography ; Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat / Larry Neal -- 26 ways of looking at a Black man / Raymond R. Patterson -- Howlin Wolf ; Big Maybelle / Sterling D. Plumpp ; From where the blues? ; "WE NEED" ; " ; Metagnomy / N. H. Pritchard -- Beware: do not read this poem ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; The reactionary poet / Ishmael Reed -- sonnet ; poll ; the poor houses ; othello jones dresses for dinner ; American Jazz Quartet / Ed Roberson -- how i got ovah / Carolyn Rodgers -- for our lady ; A Poem for My Father ; A poem for my brother ; Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ; haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ; haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ; two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ; tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ; haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ; haiku ("man. you write me so") ; tanka ("like dark old men the") ; haiku ("like ermine when i") ; haiku ("i want to make you") ; blues ; Song No. 2 / Sonia Sanchez -- Whitey on the moon ; The revolution will not be televised ; Home is where the hatred is / Gil Scott-Heron -- After Vallejo / A. B. Spellman -- Inauguration ; Song / Lorenzo Thomas -- One for Charlie Mingus ; Poem for my father ; After hearing a radio announcement: a comment on some conditions / Quincy Troupe -- A far cry from Africa ; Codicil ; Blues ; The Schooner Flight ; Sea canes ; Volcano ; Easter ; Omeros: Chapter VIII / Derek Walcott -- Women / Alice Walker -- blues for franks wooten ; Maumau American cantos: Canto 4 / Tom Weatherly -- How stars start ; Dance of the infidels ; Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ; The old O.O. blues ; A poem for players / Al Young.
Blue light sutras 1976-1989. Twenty-year marriage ; I can't get started ; Two brothers ; The good shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 / AI -- Haiti / Will Alexander -- Titta / George Barlow -- Soul make a path through shouting ; Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson / Cyrus Cassells -- Portrait of a nude woman as Cleopatra / Barbara Chase-Riboud -- What it means to be dark ; Mastectomy ; American sonnets / Wanda Coleman -- Harriet in the promised land / Sam Cornish -- Blackbottom ; The weakness ; On the turning up of unidentified Black female corpses ; Black boys play the classics / Toi Derricotte -- Leaving Eden ; The Arcanum poems ; Father / Ralph Dickey -- Tour guide: La Maison des Esclaves ; Turning forty in the 90's ; Wednesday mourning ; Heartbeats / Melvin Dixon -- The house slave ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; Adolescence--II ; Banneker ; Thomas and Beulah ; Canary ; The return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ; Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ; Sonata Mulattica / Rita Dove -- The dance ; The Supremes ; Brutal imagination / Cornelius Eady -- Brown girl levitation, 1962-1989 ; Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate Nikky Finney -- Some pieces ; Hand me down blues ; Dark mirror / Calvin Forbes -- This bridge across ; Time with Stevie Wonder in it ; Chris Gilbert: an improvisation / Christopher Gilbert -- Vernacular examples ; Palaver ; Sotto voce / C. S. Giscombe -- For my mother (May I inherit half her strength) ; For Claude McKay / Lorna Goodison -- Goldsboro narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ; Goldsboro narrative #28 ; Goldsboro narrative #33 ; Goldsboro narrative #7 ; Annual visit of the quiet, unmarried son / Forrest Hamer -- Heavy corners ; Civil servant ; For my own protection / Essex Hemphill -- "C"ing in colors: Blue / Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Surplus future imperfect ; Woman, with wings ; Should you find me / Erica Hunt -- Deep song / Gayl Jones -- i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Patricia Spears Jones -- Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ / Sybil Kein -- The women of plums / Dolores Kendrick -- Annabelle ; More girl than boy ; Letter to Bob Kaufman ; Blue Light Lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel ; February in Sydney ; Dien Cai Dau ; Venus's-flytraps ; My father's love letters ; Anodyne ; Ode to the maggot / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Falso brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 / Nathaniel Mackey -- Gra'ma ; Try to understand Papa ; Throwing stones at the all white pool ; Fade to black / Colleen J. McElroy -- Life in a sterile environment: a case study ; The day before kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ; A reconsideration of the blackbird ; An anointing ; Poem for my mothers and other makers of Asafetida ; The lynching / Thylias Moss -- Muse & drudge ; Sleeping with the dictionary / Harryette Mullen -- A strange beautiful woman ; Sleepless nights ; Lonely eagles ; Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson -- How I became the blues / Brenda Marie Osbey -- The broken English dream / Pedro Pietri -- The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin -- All the way home ; Dreamer / Primus St. John -- Trying for fire / Tim Seibles -- for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Building Nicole's mama ; Don't drink the water / Patricia Smith -- Free! / Sekou Sundiata -- Inside the blues whale ; Scrapple ; Washing the car with my father ; John Henry sleeping in high grass / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Letters to a New England Negro / Sherley Anne Williams.
Praise songs for the day 1990-2008. Blue ; The new religion / Chris Abani -- The Venus Hottentot ; Nineteen ; Ars poetica #28: African leave-taking disorder ; Ars poetica #100: I believe ; Praise song for the day / Elizabeth Alexander -- loose strife ; Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as water into fire / Quan Barry -- Verbal mugging / Paul Beatty -- Prayer of the backhanded ; Bullet points ; 'N'em ; Another elegy ; The tradition / Jericho Brown -- A balance of blues & angels / Darrell Burton -- nap-i-ness / Kyle Dargan -- Natural ; Black funk / Kwame Dawes -- Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter -- Frequently asked questions: #10 / Camille Dungy -- View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Sugar and brine: Ella's understanding ; Salt / Vievee Francis -- burial ; A small needful fact / Ross Gay -- Santa Ana of grocery carts ; Teeth ; Ode to the little "r" / Aracelis Girmay -- Seeing the body / Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Black Mary integrates the school house / Duriel E. Harris -- Touch ; Satchmo returns to New Orleans ; The golden shovel ; Carp poem / Terrance Hayes -- How to listen ; Euphoria ; Ferguson / Major Jackson -- The gospel of barbecue / Honorée Fannone Jeffers -- Charity on Blind Tom ; General Bethune on Blind Tom ; Blind Boone's vision ; Minnehaha / Tyehimba Jess -- Jesse Owens, 1963 ; Rope / A. Van Jordan -- Thirty lines about the fro ; My father's kites / Allison Joseph -- Drop it like it's Hottentot Venus / Douglas Kearney -- Language, knowledge, a teeming river of implications ; Texts, context, a fear of contamination / John Keene -- Hostage / Daniell Legros Georges -- Plantation ; Voyage of the Sable Venus ; "Lucy Terry Prince prepares for her marriage" / Robin Coste Lewis -- Ode to the diasporican / Mariposa -- Good stock strange blood / Dawn Lundy Martin -- The big smoke ; Robot music / Adrian Matejka -- What the oracle said / Shara McCallum -- The Keepin' It Real Awards / Tony Medina -- Blackout 1977 / Tracie Morris -- gayl jones ; cecil taylor ; johnny cash ; I ran from it but was still in it / Fred Moten -- On confessionalism / John Murillo -- Written by himself ; Raisin / Gregory Pardlo -- Bembé-faced ; Arroz con son y clave / Willie Perdomo -- Blue ; Cotillion ; A great noise ; Speak low / Carl Phillips -- I want to not have to write another word about who the cops keep killing / Khadijah Queen -- Citizen: an American lyric / Claudia Rankine -- The difficult music ; The lucky one ; Hesitation theory ; My mother was no white dove / Reginald Shepherd -- The lost letters of Frederick Douglass ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; ode to my blacknes / Evie Shockley -- Sci-fi ; Don't you wonder, sometimes? ; The universe is a house party ; Declaration / Tracy K. Smith -- Offering ; Snow / Sharan Strange -- Ode to gentrification / Samantha Thornhill -- Flounder ; Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Graveyard blues ; Pilgrimage ; Miscegenation ; Incident / Natasha Trethewey -- Strip ; RR Lyrae: Matter / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- Wind talker ; Work ethic / Frank X. Walker -- Dissidence ; Gwendolyn Brooks / Anthony Walton -- "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" / Simone White -- Amethyst rocks / Saul Williams -- Money Road / Kevin Young.
After the hurricane 2009-2020. How can Black people write about flowers at a time like this / Hanif Abdurraqib -- La Negra takes Medusa to the hair salon / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Cento between the ending and the end / Cameron Awkward-Rich -- America will be / Joshua Bennett -- A postmodern two-step / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- upon viewing the death of basquiat / Mahogany L. Browne -- Massa's house / Dominique Christina -- Nashville / Tiana Clark -- Dear _____, / DéLana R. A. Dameron -- My first Black nature poem(TM) / LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs -- I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store / Eve L. Ewing -- Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas / Sean Hill -- (Afterward) one corner more/Notes on a letter to the singer Abbey Lincoln from her lover, Abraham Lincoln / Harmony Holiday -- After the hurricane / Ishion Hutchinson -- Kansas / Gary Jackson -- Kudzu / Saeed Jones -- The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings / Donika Kelly -- One country / Rickey Laurentiis -- Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face / Shane McCrae -- Closer / Anis Mojgani -- #sayhername / Aja Monet -- The president's wife / Morgan Parker -- Violins / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- History / Camille Rankine -- Black can sleep / Justin Phillip Reed -- Children listen / Roger Reeves -- Why is we Americans / Alison C. Rollins -- Object permanence / Nicole Sealey -- Gnawa boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Charif Shanahan -- Fisherman's daughter / Safiya Sinclair -- dinosaurs in the hood / Danez Smith -- Your national anthem / Clint Smith -- Prayer / Phillip B. Williams -- Ode to Herb Kent / Jamila Woods.
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