

McElroy - The bicycle wizard / Sharan Strange - Bicycles / Nikki Giovanni - A clean slate / Fred D'Aguiar - Song through the wall / Akua Lezli Hope - A seat saved / Shana Yarborough - Sunday greens / Rita Dove - The untitled superhero poem / Tonya Maria Matthews - Mercy killing - Remica L. " / Leodis McCray - That and some mo' / DJ Renegade - Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina - Dancing naked on the floor / Kwame Alexander - Harriet Tubman's email 2 master / Truth Thomas - A river that flows forever The rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur - Rochelle / Reuben Jackson - All their stanzas look alike / Thomas Sayers Ellis - From the center 2 the edge The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele - Southern University, 1962 / Kevin Young - Poetry should ride the bus / Ruth Forman - Blues for spring / Colleen J. " / Kwame Alexander - Haiku / DJ Renegade - Untitled / Nadir Lasana Bomani - "I wish I could've seen it.

Ethelbert Miller - The Supremes / Cornelius Eady - Nikki save me / Michele Scott - "Nikki, if you were a song. Steptoe - Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / Kevin Young - View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis - Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natash Trethewey - Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson - From / A. Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton - Train ride / Kwame Dawes - Train rides / Nikki Giovanni - A great granddaddy speaks / Lamont B. Oden - Only everything I own / Patricia Smith - Lot's daughter dreams of her mother / Opal Moore - The girlfriend's train / Nikky Finney - Back from the arms of big mama / Afaa Michael Weaver - Mama's promise / Marilyn Nelson - Bop: a whistling woman / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. this is a love poem / Nikki Giovanni - The carousel / Gloria C. 3 Poem at thirty A poem for Sterling Brown / Sonia Sanchez - Marchers headed for Washington, Baltimore, 1963 / Remica L. Dungy - Boston year / Elizabeth Alexander - She wears red / Jackie Warren-Moore - Commercial break: road-runner, uneasy / Tim Seibles - Before making love / Toi Derricotte - Be-bop / Sterling Plumpp - Personal letter no. Bingham - Beneath me Autobiography / Jericho Brown - Parable of the sower / Pamela Sneed - Heritage Yet do I marvel Incident / Countee Cullen - We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar - Trifle The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson - Woman with flower / Naomi Long Madgett - The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight - Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat / Larry Neal - Cleaning / Camille T. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till A sunset of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks - Things I carried coming into the world Topography / Remica L. The blue Terrance / Terrance Hayes - The mother A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Madhubuti - No images / Waring Cuney - Between the world and me / Richard Wright - Theme for English B Easy boogie Dream boogie Dream boogie (variation) Harlem Good morning Same in blues Island / Langston Hughes. Madhubuti - Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall - A poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Brown - I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton - I am a black woman Who can be born black? / Mari Evans - Nikki-Rosa Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni - The dry spell / Kevin Young - Those winter Sundays Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden - The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes - Choosing the blues / Angela Jackson - My father's love letters / Yusef Komunyakaa - The creation / James Weldon Johnson - A Negro love song / Paul Laurence Dunbar - Lift every voice and sing Go down death / James Weldon Johnson - Between ourselves / Audre Lorde - The union of two / Haki R. Lamar Wilson - Ka'ba / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) - When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story The sermon on the warpland We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks - Jazz baby is it in you / Antoine Harris - "I fade into the night" / Adam Daniel - Old Lem / Sterling A. The aunt / Mari Evans - For my people / Margaret Walker - Leroy / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) - Ars poetica: Nov. "Ĭontains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove. : digital 4 3/4 in.)Īccompanying CD: "Featuring performances on CD by Ruby Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many more friends. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, ©2010.Ģ28 pages 22 cm + 1 audio disc (70 min. The 100 best African American poems : (*but I cheated) / / edited by Nikki Giovanni. You are only searching: Smithsonian LibrariesĪmerican poetry - African American authors.
