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Includes biographies of poets.

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess ; An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries / Jupitor Hammon

A Mathematical Problem in Verse / Benjamin Banneker

On Being Brought from Africa to America ; To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield ; A Farewell to America ; An Hymn to the Morning ; An Hymn to the Evening / Phillis Wheatley

On Liberty and Slavery ; On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom ; Early Affection ; George Moses Horton, Myself ; The Slave's Complaint ; To Eliza / George Moses Horton

Vincent Oge / George Boyer Vashon

America ; Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams / James Monroe Whitfield

The Slave Mother ; Let the Light Enter ; The Slave Auction ; Songs for the People ; President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom ; A Double Standard 51 Bible Defence of Slavery ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read / Frances E. W. Harper

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League ; Frederick Douglass ; Ned's Psalm of Life for the Negro ; The Don't-Care Negro ; William Lloyd Garrison / Joseph Seaman Cotter, Sr.

O Black and Unknown Bards ; Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon) ; Sence You Went Away ; The Creation (A Negro Sermon) ; The Glory of Day Was in Her Face / James Weldon Johnson

When Malindy Sings ; A Negro Love Song ; We Wear the Mask ; Sympathy ; Dawn ; Robert Gould Shaw ; Jealous ; Frederick Douglass ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Accountability ; A Plea ; Douglass ; Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes / Paul Laurence Dunbar

The House of Falling Leaves ; The Watchers / William Stanley Braithwaite

Letter to My Sister ; White Things ; Lines to a Nasturtium ; Dunbar ; Neighbors / Anne Spencer

The Heart of a Woman ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Little Son ; Old Black Men / Georgia Douglas Johnson

If We Must Die ; The White House ; The Harlem Dancer ; The Tropics in New York / Claude Mckay

Cotton Song ; Evening Song ; Georgia Dusk ; Harvest Song ; November Cotton Flower ; Reapers / Jean Toomer

Dark Symphony / Melvin B. Tolson

After Winter ; Frankie and Johnny ; Idyll ; Long Track Blues ; Ma Rainey ; Odyssey of Big Boy ; Old Lem ; Rain ; Seeking Religion ; Slim Greer ; Slim in Atlanta ; Slim in Hell ; Southern Road ; Strong Men ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden / Sterling A. Brown

To a Dark Girl ; Sonnets / Gwendolyn Bennett

Cross ; Christ in Alabama ; Dream Variations ; Frosting ; Harlem Night Song ; Harlem Sweeties ; House in the World ; Madam and the Rent Man ; Mother to Son ; Passing Love ; Personal ; Suicide's Note ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; Theme for English B ; Tower / Langston Hughes

A Brown Girl Dead ; Yet Do I Marvel ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Death to the Poor ; Four Epitaphs ; Heritage ; Incident ; A Negro Mother's Lullaby ; Saturday's Child ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / Countee Cullen

Ice Storm ; Those Winter Sundays ; A Plague of Starlings ; October ; Frederick Douglass ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; The Islands / Robert Hayden

For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Margaret Walker

The Bean Eaters ; Sadie and Maud ; A Song in the Front Yard ; Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery ; We Real Cool ; The Mother ; To Be in Love ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; To an Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct ; The Blackstone Rangers ; Mentors / Gwendolyn Brooks

Battle Report ; Grandfather Was Queer, Too ; Walking Parker Home ; Jail Poems / Bob Kaufman

Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Blackman / Raymond Patterson

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen ; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II ; The Bounty / Derek Walcott

Haiku ; The Idea of Ancestry ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine / Etheridge Knight

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; from Hymn to Lanie Poo: Each Morning ; A Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; Black Art ; Black Bourgeoisie ; Clay / AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi]Ones)

Separation ; But What Can You Teach My Daughter ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change / Audre Lorde

Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament / Sonia Sanchez

miss rosie ; the lost baby poem ; light on my mother's tongue ; to ms. ann ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; to my friend, jerina ; white lady ; 4/30/92 for rodney king ; slaveship / Lucille Clifton

Journey to the Place of Ghosts ; Boleros 19 ; The Healing Improvisation of Hair ; The Albuquerque Graveyard ; Love in the Weather's Bells ; Meta-A and the A of Absolutes ; The Lake in Central Park ; Desire's Persistence / Jay Wright

Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; For Bud ; We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper ; Here Where Coltrane Is ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; Br'er Sterling and the Rocker ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; In Hayden's Collage ; Angola (Louisiana) ; Psalm ; Release ; The Ghost of Soul-making ; My Father's Face / Michael S. Harper

Dualism ; .05 ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra ; The Reactionary Poet / Ishmael Reed

Dance of the Infidels ; How the Rainbow Works ; The Blues Don't Change ; How Stars Start ; From Bowling Green ; Leaving Syracuse / Al Young

Before Making Love ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Invisible Dreams / Toi Derricotte

We Walk the Way of the New World ; the self-hatred of don I. lee / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

Letters from a New England Negro / Sherley Anne Williams

My Grandfather Walks in the Woods ; Emily Dickinson's Defunct ; Tuskegee Airfield / Marilyn Nelson

Untitled Blues ; Elegy for Thelonious ; Between Days ; Facing It ; February in Sydney ; Euphony ; My Father's Love Letters / Yusef Komunyakaa

Winged Abyss ; Black Snake Visitation / Nathaniel Mackey

Deep Song / Gayl Jones

Dayton, O., the 50's & 60's / C. S. Giscombe

"Teach Us to Number Our Days" ; Banneker ; Parsley ; The Event ; Weathering Out ; The Great Palace of Versailles ; Canary / Rita Dove

A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; Landscape with Saxophonist ; Lessons from a Mirror ; The Undertaker's Daughter Feels Neglect / Thylias Moss

Crows in a Strong Wind ; Leadbelly ; Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues ; Radio ; Travelin' Shoes / Cornelius Eady

Cortege ; Aubade for Eve Under the Arbor / Carl Phillips

Dissidence ; Celestial Mechanics ; The Lovesong of Emmett Till ; The Summer Was Too Long / Anthony Walton

The Venus Hottentot ; Narrative: Ali / Elizabeth Alexander

Narcissus in Plato's Cave ; Tantalus in May ; Slaves / Reginald Shepherd.

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