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- By John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- By Rajiv MohabirLook at your feet, so beautiful. Do not step on the ground, filth will smear them; your future will ...
- By J. V. CunninghamI am no shepherd of a child’s surmises. I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where...
- By Emma HineI don’t realize I’m starved for the color until the blood washes up on the beach. I’m craving red but...
- By Ted HughesI climbed through woods in the hour-before-dawn dark. Evil air, a frost-making stillness, Not a leaf...
- By James K. BaxterThe wish to climb a ladder to the loft Of God dies hard in us. The angels Jacob saw Were not himself...
- By Trish Salahi. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...
- By Marie HoweWhat we did to the earth, we did to our daughters one after the other. What we did to the trees, we ...
- By Ciaran CarsonI am being paraded through the streets with my head shaved, with no memory of what I have done to deserve...
- By Countee CullenThey in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each other’s rage, and pass the hours Commiserating...
- By Countee CullenWhat is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or...
- By Sterling A. BrownI When Ma Rainey Comes to town, Folks from anyplace Miles aroun’, From Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff,...
- By Jericho BrownA poem is a gesture toward home. It makes dark demands I call my own. Memory makes demands darker than...
- By AazhidegiizhigWaababaa As my eyes inaabiyan search mashkode the prairie noongom igod ji-niibin I feel the summer in...
- By Claude McKayTo clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed, Scented and warm against my beating breast; To whisper...
- By Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour...
- By Ada LimónWhen you come, bring your brown- ness so we can be sure to please the funders. Will you check this box...
- By D. A. Powelllet’s say you want flowers you should have flowers let’s say you want forever you should have flowers...
- By Aracelis Girmaysister was the wolf & could cross easily through the mountain dark to den keen & quivered with the muscular...