Furious Flower Poetry Database

• Abani, Chris
• Abegunde, M.
• Abrams, Robert
• Acey, Taalam
• Achebe, Chinua
• Addison, Linda
• Adisa, Opal
• Ai,
• Alexander, Will
• Alexander, Kwame
• Alexander, Elizabeth
• Algarin, Miguel
• Ali, Abdul
• Allen, Samuel
• Allen, Jeffery
• Alleyne, Lauren
• Alleyne, Lauren
• Amiri, Johari
• Ammons, Shirlette
• Anderson, TJ
• Angelou, Maya
• Asante, Monifa
• Asante, M.
• Asim, Jabari
• Atkins, Russell
• Aubert, Alvin
• Austin, Derrick
• Avant, Jerriod
• Awkward-Rich, Cameron
• Ayers, Vivian
• Baker, Houston
• Baldwin, James
• Bambara, Toni
• Bandele, Makalani
• Bandele, Asha
• Baraka, Ras
• Baraka, Amiri
• Barlow, George
• Barnes, Aziza
• Barnes, Aziza
• Barnes, Aziza
• Barrax, Gerald
• Bartee, Richard
• Bashir, Samiya
• Beadle, Samuel
• Beatty, Paul
• Bell, James
• Benjamin, Robert
• Bennett, Lerone
• Bennett, Joshua
• Berry, Michelle
• Bertram, Lillian
• Betts, Tara
• Betts, Reginald
• Bibb, Eloise
• Bingham, Remica
• Birdsong, Destiny
• Birtha, Becky
• Bishop, Jacqueline
• Black, Timothy
• Bonair-Agard, Roger
• Bond, Julian
• Bontemps, Arna
• Book, Shane
• Booker, Stephen
• Booker, Malika
• Booth, Dexter
• Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl
• Boyd, Melba
• Braggs, Earl
• Braithwaite, William
• Brawley, Benjamin
• Braxton, Joanne
• Braxton, Charlie
• Bridges, Constance
• Brim, Antoinette
• Brocks-Shedd, Virginia
• Brooker, Malika
• Brooks, Jonathan
• Brooks, Helen
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Brown, Sterling
• Brown, Melvin
• Brown, Linda
• Brown, Jericho
• Brown, Isabella
• Brown, F. Douglass
• Brown, Derrick
• Browne, Mahogany
• Burgess, Gloria
• Burroughs, CM
• Bush-Banks, Olivia
• Butts, Anthony
• Bynum, Edward
• Cagney, James
• Campbell, James
• Campbell, Christian
• Campbell, Alfred
• Carmichael, Waverly
• Carroll, Kenneth
• Cassells, Cyrus
• Chaney, Nikia
• Chase-Riboud, Barbara
• Cheatwood, Kiarri
• Cheney-Coker, Syl
• Cherry, James
• Christian, Marcus
• Christina, Dominique
• Clair, Maxine
• Clarke, Cheryl
• Cleage, Pearl
• Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae
• Clifford, Carrie
• Clifton, Lucille
• Cobb Jr., Charles
• Coffin, Frank
• Coleman, Wanda
• Coleman, Jeffrey
• Coleman, Gerald
• Coleman, Anita
• Comer, Nandi
• Cornish, Sam
• Corrothers, James
• Cortez, Jayne
• Cotter Jr., Joseph
• Cotter Sr., Joseph
• Craft, Howard
• Craig, Christine
• Crisler, Curtis
• Cross Davis, Terri
• Cullen, Countee
• Cuney, Waring
• Cuthbert, Marion
• D'Aguiar, Fred
• Daaood, Kamau
• Dameron, Delana
• Dandridge, Raymond
• Danner, Margaret
• Dant, Traci
• Dargan, Kyle
• Davenport, Doris
• Davis, Thulani
• Davis, Jarita
• Davis, Geffrey
• Davis, Frank
• Davis, Daniel
• Dawes, Kwame
• De Veaux, Alexis
• Dease, Ruth
• Dee, Ruby
• Dent, Thomas
• Derricotte, Toi
• DesVignes, Sean
• Diggs, Latasha
• Dinkins, Charles
• Dixon, Melvin
• Dixon, Kimberly
• Dixson, Alyss
• Dodson, Owen
• Douglas, Mitchell
• Dove, Rita
• Dumas, Henry
• Dunbar, Paul
• Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
• Dungy, Camille
• Durem, Ray
• Dutton, Nicole
• Eady, Cornelius
• Early, Gerald
• Edwards, Solomon
• El-Scari, Natasha
• Elhillo, Safia
• Elliott , Chiyuma
• Ellis, Thomas
• Ellis, Kelly
• Emanuel, James
• Evans, Mari
• Everett, Percival
• Fabio, Sarah
• Faison, Latorial
• Favorite , Malaika
• Fields, Julia
• Figgs, Carrie
• Finch, Anselm
• Finney, Nikky
• Flood, Reginald
• Flores, Shaggy
• Floyd-Miller, Cherryl
• Forbes, Calvin
• Ford, Nick
• Fordham, Mary
• Forman, Ruth
• Fort, Charles
• Fortune, T.
• Francis, Vievee
• Gadson, Jonterri
• Gallant, Ayanna
• Garnett, Ruth
• Garvey, Marcus
• Gay, Ross
• Gayles, Gloria
• Gex-Breaux, Quo Vadis
• Gibson, Regie
• Gibson, Carolyn
• Gilbert, Christopher
• Gillespie, Carmen
• Gilmore, Brian
• Gilyard, Keith
• Giovanni, Nikki
• Girmay, Aracelis
• Giscombe, C.S.
• Golden, Ebony
• Gomez, Jewelle
• Goodison, Lorna
• Green, Jaki
• Green, CeLillianne
• Greenfield, Eloise
• Greenlee, Sam
• Griffiths, Rachel
• Grimke, Angelina
• Hairston, Alena
• Hall , Neal
• Hamer, Forrest
• Hamilton, Kendra
• Hammon, Jupiter
• Hand, Monica
• Hardy, Myronn
• Harper, Michael
• Harper, Frances
• Harriell, Derrick
• Harrington, Janice
• Harris, William
• Harris, Reginald
• Harris, Francine
• Harris, Duriel
• Harris, Alysia
• Harvey, Yona
• Hawkins, Shayla
• Hayden, Robert
• Hayes, Terrance
• Heard, Josephine
• Heath, M.
• Hemphill, Essex
• Henderson, Melanie
• Henderson, Elliott
• Henderson, David
• Henderson-Holmes, Safiya
• Herd, Niki
• Hernton, Calvin
• Herron, Bennie
• Hill, Sean
• Hill, Leslie
• Hoagland, Everett
• Holloway, John
• Holly, Joseph
• Holman, M. Carl
• Holnes, Darrel
• hooks, bell
• Horne, Frank
• Horton, Randall
• Horton, George
• Howard, Vilma
• Howard, Juliet
• Hughes, Langston
• Hughes, Detrick
• Hull, Akasha (Gloria)
• Hunt, Erica
• Hutchinson, Ishion
• Hyman, Ramona
• Iloh, Candice
• Irvis, K.
• Iverem, Esther
• Jackson, Reuben
• Jackson, Marcus
• Jackson, Major
• Jackson, Linda
• Jackson, Gary
• Jackson, Gale
• Jackson, Angela
• Jacobs, Bruce
• Jacques, Geoffrey
• James, G.
• Jamison, Roscoe
• Jean, Valerie
• Jeffers, Lance
• Jeffers, Honoree
• Jess, Tyehimba
• Joans, Ted
• Johnson, Roxane
• Johnson, James
• Johnson, Jacqueline
• Johnson, Helene
• Johnson, Georgia
• Johnson, Fenton
• Johnson, Charles
• Johnson, Brandon
• Johnson, Amaud
• Johnston, Percy
• Johnston, Amanda
• Joiner, Fred
• Jones, Saeed
• Jones, Patricia
• Jones, Meta
• Jones, Joshua
• Jones, Gayl
• Jones, Edward
• Jordan, Norman
• Jordan, June
• Jordan, A.
• Joseph, Allison
• Judd, Bettina
• Kaldas, Pauline
• Kaliba, Layding
• Kaufman, Bob
• Kearney, Douglas
• Keene, John
• Kein, Sybil
• Keita, Nzadi
• Kellman, Anthony
• Kelly, Donika
• Kendrick, Dolores
• Kgositsile, Keorapetse
• King, Alan
• Knight, Etheridge
• Kocher, Ruth
• Komunyakaa, Yusef
• Laine, Henry
• LaMon, Jacqueline
• Lane, Pinkie
• Lansana, Quraysh
• Larsen, Nella
• Laurentiis, Rickey
• Lawson, Shayla
• Lee, Anthony
• Leon, Raina
• Leonard, Chantay
• Lewis, Robin
• Lilley, Gary
• Lockett, Reginald
• Long, Doughtry
• Lorde, Audre
• Mackey, Nathaniel
• Madgett, Naomi
• Madhubuti, Haki
• Major, Devorah
• Major, Clarence
• Majozo, Estella
• Manick, Cynthia
• Margetson, George
• Marin, Natasha
• Marshall, Nate
• Martin, Dawn
• Martin, Carl
• Mataka, Laini
• Matejka, Adrian
• May, Jamaal
• McCallum, Shara
• McClain, Nathan
• McClane, Kenneth
• McClellan, George
• McCray, Carrie
• McElroy, Colleen
• McFadden, Maurice
• McFarland, JoAnne
• McGirt, James
• McKay, Claude
• McMorris, Mark
• Medina, Tony
• Menard, John
• Menken, Adah
• Merritt, Constance
• Micheaux, Dante
• Miller, May
• Miller, E. Ethelbert
• Miller, Brenda
• Miller, Adam
• Mills, David
• Mitchell, Gwendolyn
• Monet, Aja
• Moody, Jonathan
• Moon, Kamilah
• Moor, Indigo
• Moore, Opal
• Moore, Lenard
• Moore, Jessica
• Morris, Tracie
• Moss, Thylias
• Mullen, Harryette
• Murillo, John
• Murphy, Merilene
• Murphy, Beatrice
• Murray, Pauli
• Murray, Albert
• Nafis, Angel
• Neal, Larry
• Neely, Letta
• Nelson, Marilyn
• Newsome, Effie
• Nicholes, Marion
• Nichols, Grace
• O'Neil, January
• Obadike, Mendi
• Ocasio, Grace
• Oden, Gloria
• Ojaide, Tanure
• Okantah, Mwatabu
• Oktavi, Allison
• Osayande, Ewuare
• Osbey, Brenda
• Osman, Ladan
• Pardlo, Gregory
• Parker, Pat
• Parker, Morgan
• Patterson, Raymond
• Patterson, G.
• Payne, Daniel
• Perkins, Eugene
• Phillips, Carl
• Phipps, Wanda
• Pinede, Nadine
• Pinede, Nadine
• Pinkard , Michelle
• Pinson, Hermine
• Plato, Ann
• Plumpp, Sterling
• Poe, Deborah
• Polite, Allen
• Pollock, Iain
• Popel, Esther
• Powell, Kevin
• Prince, Lucy
• Pritchard, Norman
• Procope, Lynne
• Pruitt, Stephanie
• Pruitt, Hollis
• Queen, Khadijah
• Ramsey, Kwasi
• Randall, Dudley
• Rankine, Claudia
• Ray, Henrietta
• Redmond, Glenis
• Redmond, Eugene
• Reed , Tennessee
• Reed, Ishmael
• Reese, Michele
• Reeves, Roger
• Rivera, Louis
• Rivers, Conrad
• Roberson, Ed
• Robinson, Roger
• Robinson, Kysha
• Rodgers, Carolyn
• Rogers, Elymas
• Rowe, George
• Rucker, Kamau
• Rushin, Kate
• Russell, Lauren
• Rux, Carl
• Salaam, Kalamu
• Saloy, Mona Lisa
• Sama, Metta
• Samuels, Aaron
• Sanchez, Sonia
• Sapphire,
• Scott, Darlene
• Scott-Heron, Gil
• Sealey, Nicole
• Seibles, Tim
• Shackelford, Theodore
• Shanahan, Charif
• Shange, Ntozake
• Shannon, Angela
• Sharp, S.
• Shepherd, Reginald
• Shockley, Evie
• Simmonds, Kevin
• Simmons, Danny
• Simpson, Joshua
• Sinclair, Safiya
• singleton, giovanni
• Smith, Tracy
• Smith, Patricia
• Smith, John
• Smith, Effie
• Smith, Danez
• Sneed, Pamela
• Snyder, Thurmond
• Southerland, Ellease
• Spellman, Alfred
• Spencer, Anne
• Spriggs, Bianca
• St. John, Primus
• Steptoe, Lamont
• Strange, Sharan
• Stuckey, Elma
• Tallie, Mariahadessa
• Tartt, Peggy
• Taylor, Glenda
• Thomas, Lorenzo
• Thomas, Joyce
• Thomas, Etan
• Thomas, Amber
• Thompson, Priscilla
• Thompson, Julius
• Thompson, James
• Thompson, Clara
• Thompson, Aaron
• Thornhill, Samantha
• Thrash, Venus
• Tillman, Katherine
• Tolbert, Anastacia
• Tolson, Melvin
• Toomer, Jean
• Toure, Askia
• Trethewey, Natasha
• Troupe Jr., Quincy
• Turner, Darwin
• Upton, Elaine
• Vertreace, Martha
• Walcott, Derek
• Walden, Alfred
• Walker, Margaret
• Walker, Frank
• Walker, Alice
• Walters, Wendy
• Walton, Anthony
• Warren, Nagueyalti
• Watkins, Travis
• Watkins, Nayo
• Weatherford, Carole
• Weatherly, Tom
• Weaver, Afaa
• Weems, Mary
• Wemple, Jerry
• Wesley, Patricia
• Wheatley, Phillis
• White, Paulette
• White, Marvin
• White, Marcus
• White, Charles
• White, Artress
• White, Arisa
• Whitfield, James
• Whitley, James
• Whitlow, Carolyn
• Whitman, Albery
• Wicker, Marcus
• Wilkinson, Henry
• Wilkinson, Crystal
• Williams, Tyrone
• Williams, Sherley
• Williams, Phillip
• Williams, Kimmika
• Williams, Karen
• Williams, John
• Williams, Edward
• Williams, Crystal
• Wilson, Ted
• Wilson, Ronaldo
• Wilson, Lamar
• Wisher, Yolanda
• Woods, Jamila
• Woodson, Jacqueline
• Wright, Richard
• Wright, Jay
• Wynn, Toni
• X, Marvin
• ya Salaam, Kalamu
• Yanique, Tiphanie
• Young, Kevin
• Young, Al
• Zu-Bolton, Ahmos

Quick Stats

• Birth: 1914
• Death: 2000
• Hometown: Washington, D.C.