ON THE PULSE OF MORNING: Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here...
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Somebody Blew Up America: The Poem
Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit in its condemnation of US foreign policy...
She’s Free! by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of her face? – With her step on...
Poem for My Father by Quincy Troupe
for Quincy T. Troupe Sr. father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout with you, the glory of great black men swinging...
I Held You in the Square by Ben Okri
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body....
Retrospection by Jumoke Verissimo
I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF; International Misery Fellows, whose kindness borders on...