Furious Flower Poetry Database

• 10 Tongues: Poems
• 1946: A Poem
• 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man and Other Poems
• 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History
• 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History Vol. 2
• 47th Street
• A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women
• A Chisel in the Dark
• A Dark and Splendid Mass
• A Daughter’s Geography
• A Folk Fable (For my Black People)
• A Forest Pool
• A Garland of Poems
• A Gathering of Matter/ A Matter of Gathering
• a half-red sea
• A Hunger For Moonlight
• A Litany of Friends
• A Little Dreaming
• A Long Movie of Shadows
• A Long Song to Black Men
• A Mirror: A Soul
• A Move Further South
• A Nation of Poets
• A Nation of Poets: Poems
• A Podium Presentation
• A Poem on the Fugitive Slave Law
• A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
• A Poet’s Mind
• A Protocol for Touch
• A Rhyming
• A Secretary to the Spirits
• A Slat of Wood & Other Poems
• A Street in Bronzeville
• A Summoning
• A Tale of Time & Toilet Tissue
• A Tale of Two Toms, or Tom-Tom (Uncle Toms of East St. Louis and St. Louis)
• A Temple Looming
• A Toast to Love and Death
• A Tree Beyond Telling: Poems, Selected and New
• A White Song and a Black One
• A Wreath for Emmett Till
• Above the Human Nerve Domain
• Absence in the Palms of My Hands: & Other Poems
• Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth
• Acolytes
• Across the Blue Chasm
• Across the Mutual Landscape
• Adam Shuffer
• Affrilachia
• Afreeka Brass
• African Sleeping Sickness
• Afrodisia: New Poems
• After the Killing
• Against the Blues
• Against Whatever Sky
• Against Which
• Against Which
• Airborne
• Airy Hall
• Algorithm & Blues
• All of Ted Joans and no more
• All Saints: New and Selected Poems
• All the Renegade Ghosts Rise
• Aloneness
• Alpha Zulu
• Amandla (We are Here)
• America and Other Poems
• America On Our Mind (In Harlem)
• American 40: Poems
• American Blue: Selected Poems
• American Dreams
• American Journal: Poems
• American morning//Mourning
• American Smooth
• American Sublime
• Ammunition!: Poetry and other Raps
• Amnesiac: Poems
• Among Bones
• An American South: Poems
• An Apology to My African Brother: And Other Poems
• An Apron Full of Beans
• An Audience of One : Poems
• An autumn love cycle
• An English Sampler: New and Selected Poems
• An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts
• An Invisible Geography
• An Ordinary Woman
• An Unmistakable Shade of Red, and the Obama Chronicles: Poems
• And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and New
• And Still I Rise
• And Then You Know: New & Selected Poems
• And There We Wept
• Andromeda
• Angel, Interrupted
• Angels
• Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems
• Annie Allen
• Another Africa
• Another Kind of Rain
• Antebellum Dream Book
• Any Human to Another
• Apocalypse Is My Garden
• Appearances
• Approaching the Center
• April Grasses
• Arc & Hue
• Arcade
• Armor and Flesh
• Ascension
• Ascension from the Ashes
• Ascent
• Ash
• Ashe
• Asia & Haiti
• At Large
• At Redbones
• At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman
• Atmosphere conditions
• Aurora
• Autumn Blues: New Poems
• Avalanche: Poems
• Avenging the Maine, A Drunken A.B., and Other Poems
• Awakening, and Other Poems
• Back of Mount Peace
• Backbone
• Bathwater Wine
• Be-bop Man/Be-bop Woman 1968-1993: Poetry and Other Raps
• Beat Poems
• Beautiful Signor
• Beautiful. And Ugly Too
• Beckonings
• Becoming Ebony
• Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
• Being a Strong Black Woman Can Get U Killed!!
• Being Full of Light, Insubstantial
• Bellocq’s Ophelia
• Belly Song and Other Poems
• Bending the Blues
• Between laughter and tears: Black Mona Lisa poems
• Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems
• Bicycles: Love Poems
• Big Bank Take Little Bank: New Cafe Poets, No.1
• Big House/ Disclosure
• Big Towns, Big Talk
• Bill of Rights
• Birds of Los Angeles
• Birthmarks
• Bittersweet
• Black Boogaloo: Notes on Black Liberation
• Black Box
• Black Essence
• Black Feeling, Black Talk
• Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment
• Black Girls Learn Love Hard
• Black is a Panther Caged
• Black Is Beautiful
• Black Love
• Black Magic: Poetry 1961-1967
• Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems
• Black Man’s Verse
• Black Maria
• Black Moods: collected poems
• Black Peculiar
• Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems
• Black Pride: Poems
• Black Swan
• Black Velvet
• Black Wings and Blind Angels
• Blackeyed
• Blessing
• Blessing the Boats
• Blessings and Inclemencies
• Blessings for a New World
• Blind Light
• Blood Dazzler
• Blood Luxury
• Blood Ties & Brown Liquor
• Bloodlines
• Bloodstorm
• Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems
• Blue Lights and River Songs
• Blue Monday
• Blue Notes and Blessing Songs
• Blue-Tail Fly
• Blues baby : early poems
• Blues for an African Princess
• Blues Journeys Home: New and Selected Poems
• Blues Music Sky of Mourning: The German Poems
• Blues Narratives
• Blues Said: Walk On
• Blues: For All the Changes
• Blues: The Story Always Untold
• Body Moves
• Body of Life
• Boleros
• Bone Flames: Poems
• Book of Life
• BOOM BOOM BOOM
• Born of a Woman
• Bouquet of Hungers
• Breath of the Song
• Breathing Lessons 101
• Bridge Suite: Narrative Poems Based on the Lives of African and African-American Women
• Brimming
• Bringing the Shovel Down
• Bringing the Shovel Down
• British Subjects
• Bronze: A Book Of Verse
• Bruised Totem
• Brutal Imagination
• Buddha Weeping In Winter
• Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
• Buffalo Head Solos
• But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
• c.c.
• Cables to Rage
• Call & Response
• Candle-Lightin’ Time
• Cane
• Canticle of Idols
• Captivity
• Carribbean Passion
• Carver, a Life in Poems
• Cat Eyes and Dead Wood
• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
• Catechism of D Neoamerican HooDoo Church
• Catfish and Neckbone Jazz: Poems of Praise for Etheridge Knight
• Ceiling of Sticks
• Ceremony for Minneconjoux
• Chances are Few
• Change of Territory
• Chap-T-Her Won
• Chattanooga
• Child of Myself
• Children Coming Home
• Children of Apartness
• Children of Iroko and other poems
• Chocolate-covered Raisins
• Chops
• Choruses: Poems
• Chosen Poems: Old and New
• Christmas Makes Me Think
• Chronicles of the Pig and Other Delusions
• Circus in the Sky
• Cities Burning
• City Beautiful
• City Eclogue
• City of Eternal Spring
• Climate
• Clinton
• Close to Death
• Coagulations: New and Selected Poems
• Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006
• cockroach children: corner poems and street psalms
• Coffin
• Coffle
• Collage: Poems
• Collected Poems
• Collected Poems
• Collected Poems: Robert Hayden
• Color
• Committed to Breathing
• Communion: Poems 1976-1998
• Complete Poems
• Complete Poems
• Compression & Purity
• Concerto for an Exile: Poems
• Conditions
• Conduit
• Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998
• Conjugations and Reiterations
• Conjure
• Conjure Blues
• Connected islands: new and selected poems
• Consider Loneliness as These Things
• Constab Ballads
• Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes
• Continental Shelf
• Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry
• Continuum: New and Selected Poems
• Controlling the Silver
• Conversion
• Conversion
• Convincing the Body
• Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem
• Copacetic
• Coping With Gravity
• Copper Sun
• Cortege
• Cotton
• Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
• Cranial Guitar
• Cricket Weather
• Crimson River
• Crimson River: Poems
• Cross A Parted Sea: Poems
• Crossing Tecumseh Street
• Crossroad of the Serpent
• Cruelty
• Crush: Love Poems
• Crystal Breezes
• Daily Bread: Poems
• Dancing Naked on the Floor
• Dancing on Main Street
• Dancing: Poems
• Daphne’s Lot
• Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners
• Dark Testament and Other Poems
• Darkie Ditties
• Dawnfire and other poems
• Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure
• Daydreamers
• De Mayor of Harlem
• Dead On Arrival
• Deadly James and Other Poems
• Dear Darkness
• Dear John, Dear Coltrane
• Debridement
• Dedications and Other Darkhorses
• Delta Dancer: New and Selected Poems
• Desdemona’s Fire
• Desert Sands
• Desert Storm: A Brief History
• Deshawn Days
• Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman
• Destination Ashes
• Destroy, Rebuild, and Other Reconstructions of the Human Muscle
• Dien Cai Dau
• Difficult Fruit
• Dimensions of History
• Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
• Directionscore: Selected and New Poems
• Dis, dat an’ tutter
• Discipline
• Disposition For Shininess
• Does Your House Have Lions?
• Dog Woman
• Dolores is Blue/Dolorez is Blues
• Domestic Work
• Don’t Cry, Scream
• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
• Don’t You Turn Back
• Drag
• Dread
• Dream of Life: Miscellaneous Poems
• Dreamer
• Dreaming at the Manor
• Dreaming Underground
• Dreaming Underground
• Drift
• Driftwood
• Duende
• Dust of Uncertain Journey
• Dusty road: A Vietnam suite
• Earth Life
• Eat Thunder & Drink Rain
• Echoes from the Cabin and Elsewhere
• Echoes of Spring
• Eden and Other Poems
• EECCHHOOEESS
• Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People
• Egyptian Compass
• Elaine’s Book
• Electric Chocolate
• Elegies for New York Avenue
• Elegies for Patrice
• Elegy for a Scarred Shoulder
• Elegy for Etheridge
• Elemental Blues
• Elements
• Elfebein Zahne (“Ivory Tusks” in German)
• Elvis Presley is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem
• Emanuel and His Parrot
• Emanuel Goes to Market
• Embryo Poems, 1967-1971
• Entrepot
• Envisioning a Sea of Dry Bones
• Epic Memory: Places and Spaces I’ve Been
• Eroding Witness
• Eros Muse
• Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry
• Etai-eken
• Ethiope Lays
• Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone
• Every Round and Other Poems
• Everywhere Is Yours
• Excellent Exposure
• Excellent Exposure
• Exits and Entrances
• Exobiology As Goddess
• Experimental Love: Poetry
• Explications/Interpretations
• Exquisite Heats
• Eye of Water
• Factum Factorum
• Family Pictures
• Far District: Poems
• Fast Fat Girls In Pink Hot Pants
• Fata Morgana
• Fate
• Fauna
• Fear, some
• Feeling Through
• Felix of the Silent Forest
• Fembles
• Femme du Monde: Poems
• Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire
• Fifth Season
• Fifty Years and Other Poems
• Fine Clothes to the Jew
• Fingering the Keys
• Finite Forms
• Firespitter
• First Fire: Poems 1957-1960
• First Light
• Flamingoes and Bears
• Flight Patterns: Poems
• Folks Like Me
• Following Phia
• Foot Prints
• Footfalls: poetry from America’s becoming
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
• For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem
• For Melba
• For My Brother Charles
• For My People
• For the Body
• For the Confederate Dead
• For Your Sweet Sake: Poems
• Forest Leaves
• Forever Afternoon
• Forever Home
• Fortune
• Fossil Fuel
• Four Electric Ghosts
• Four for Trane
• Fragments
• Freedom’s Offspring
• From a Person Sitting in Darkness : New and Selected Poems
• From Memphis and Peking
• From Okra to Greens
• From the Book of Shine
• From the Desert
• From the Devotions
• From the Heart of a Folk
• From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance!
• From These My Years
• Funk Lore: New Poems 1984-1995
• Gabriel
• Generations: Poems
• Genii Over Salzburg
• Geography of the Near Past
• Get with it Lord: New and Selected Poems
• Gilgamesh
• Girl at the Window
• Giscombe Road
• Glacier Fire
• Gladiola Garden
• Gleanings of Quiet Hours
• Go Your Stations, Girl
• God is Not an American
• God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
• Goddess of Gumbo
• Godzillananda: His Life and Visions
• Golden Sardine
• Golden Underground
• Gombo People
• Gomer’s Song
• Good News About the Earth
• Good Night, Willie Lee, I
• Good Times
• Good Times & No Bread
• Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir
• Gospel
• Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle
• Grace Notes
• Grandsire
• Gravity, U.S.A.
• Greed
• Greens
• Ground
• GroundWork: New and Selected Poems 1966-1996
• Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
• Gumbo
• Guyana at the Crossroads
• Haiku: This Other World
• Half Black, Half Blacker
• Halfway to the Sun
• Halley’s Comet
• Hammerlock
• Hand Dance
• Handbook of the Elves
• hands on ya knees
• Hands Washing Water
• Harbors and Spirits
• Hard Facts 1973-1975 (Peoples War)
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
• Harlem Gallery
• Harlem Shadows
• Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems
• Haruko/Love Poems
• Haverstraw
• Head Off and Split
• Healing Heart, Poems 1973-1988
• Healing Song for the Inner Ear
• HeartLove: Wedding and Love Poems
• Heaven: Collected Poems: 1956-1990
• Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories 1968-1986
• hellfightin’
• Her Blue Body Everything We Know
• Here
• Here
• Here I Throw Down My Heart
• Here In The
• Here: New and Selected Poems
• Heretofore
• Hey Black Child: and Other Children’s Poems
• Hey Fella, Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment
• Hip Logic
• History and Other Poems
• History Is Your Own Heartbeat
• Hofu Ni Kwenu/My Fear Is For You
• Holding Company
• Holding Pattern
• Hollerin from This Shack
• Home Coming
• Homegirls & Handgrenades
• Honey, I Love and Other Poems
• Honorable Amendments: Poems
• Honoring the Ancestors
• Hoodoo Hollerin’ Bebop Ghosts
• Hoops
• Hope’s Hospice and Other Poems
• Hopes Tied Up in Promises
• Horn Man
• Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
• Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman
• Hot Dancer Blue
• House of Women
• House on Fontanka
• How God Ends Us
• How I Figure: Poems
• how I got ovah: New and Selected Poems
• How Swallowtails Become Dragons
• How the War in the Streets Is Won: Poems on the Quest of Love and Faith
• How to Say Hello
• How We Sleep On The Nights We Don
• Howdy, Honey, Howdy
• Howell
• Hum
• Hunger and Other Poems
• Hurdy-Gurdy
• Hurrah’s Nest
• I Am a Black Woman
• I Am New Orleans and Other Poems by Marcus Bruce Christian
• I Am The American Negro
• I and I Bob Marley
• I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
• I Can Draw A Weeposaur and Other Dinosaurs
• I Dreamed My People Were Calling But I Couldn’t Find My Way Home
• I Have Come Forth By Day: A Woman’s Evolution
• I Heard A Young Man Saying
• I Name Me Name
• I Never Scream: New and Selected Poems
• I Shall Not Be Moved
• I Want Me a Home
• I Want to Dance and other poems
• I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
• I, I, I
• Ibura
• Ichi-ban
• Idle Hours
• If I Could Sing: Selected Poems
• If One of Us Should Fall
• If Winter Come: Collected Poems 1967-1992
• Illuminated Manuscript: Poems and Prints
• Images in Black
• Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems
• Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery
• Imagine This: Creating the Work you Love
• Imagoes
• Imitation of Life
• Immaculate Perceptions
• Immersion
• Impossible Flying
• Impressions of African Art Forms
• In a Green Night
• In a Time of Rain & Desire
• In Every Seam
• In Montgomery, and Other Poems
• In My Own Dark Way
• In the Blood
• In the Furrows of the World
• In the Hands of Strangers: Poems From the Nursing Home
• In the House of Words
• In the Kingdom of Songs: A Trilogy of Poems, 1952-2000
• In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems
• In the Mecca
• In the Sanctuary of a South
• In the Time of Detatchment, In the Time of Cold
• In These Houses
• In Which Language Do I keep Silent
• Infelicia
• Inner City Chants & Cyborg Cyphers
• Inside Diameter, the France Poems
• Inside the Rainbow
• Inspirational Verse
• Intermission
• Into the Clearing
• Invoking the Warrior Spirit: New and Selected Poems
• Iron Flowers
• Iron Flowers: A Poetic Report on a Visit to Haiti
• Iron Lace
• Issac Murphy: I Dedicate this Ride
• It’s Like This
• It’s Nation Time
• Ivory Tusks and Other Poems
• Jacko Jacobus
• Jazz Fan Looks Back
• Jelly Roll: A Blues
• Jimmy’s Blues: Selected Poems
• Jiva Telling Rites
• Johannesburg and Other Poems
• Joker, Joker, Deuce
• Jonestown and Other Madness
• Jonestown: A Vexation
• Journey of the Rose
• Juba
• Jubilee
• Juju: Magic songs for the Black nation
• Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags
• Just For a Thrill
• Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie
• Just Us: Poems and Counterpoems 1986-1995
• Just Words
• Kaffir Lily
• Karma’s Footsteps
• Kartunes
• Katharsis
• Killing Floor
• Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors
• Kin
• King Me
• Kingdom Animalia
• Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991-1997
• Knees of a Natural Man: Poetry
• KONG and other works
• Kupenda: Love Poems
• Labyrinths of the Delta
• Land Between
• Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
• Last Rights
• Last Seen
• Lays in Summer Lands
• leadbelly
• Leaf-of-Life
• Leaning Against the Sun
• Leaving Saturn
• Let’s Go Somewhere
• Letters to Che
• Libretto for the Public of Liberia
• Lie and say you love me: Poems
• Life According to Motown
• Life on Mars
• Life Styles
• Lighthead
• Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems
• Like the Wind
• Like Water Running Off My Back
• Limestone: An Epic Poem of Barbados
• Lining the Rails
• Links of Friendship
• Little Low Heaven
• Living As a Lesbian: Poetry
• Living in Babylon
• Living Room: new poems
• Local History
• Logorrhea Dimentia: A Self-Diagnosis
• Longer I Wait, More You Love Me
• Looka here, now!: And Other Poems from the Fifties
• Looking for a country under its original name : Poems
• Lost in the Bone Wheel Factory
• Lot’s Daughters
• Love and War: Poems
• Love is a Terrible Thing
• Love is not a Consolation, It is a Light
• Love Koo
• Love Poem to a Black Junkie
• Love Poems
• Love Poems
• Love to Langston
• Love You
• Love’s Instruments
• Love’s Skin
• LPs, or, Recording One’s Journey Through Grief
• Lunatic
• Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road
• Lyrics of Life and Love
• Lyrics of Love
• Lyrics of Love and Laughter
• Lyrics of Lowly Life
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
• Lyrics of the Hearthside
• Lyrics of the Under World
• Lyrics of Three Women
• M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
• Mad for Meat
• Mad Minute
• Madness and a Bit of Hope
• Madness Like Morning Glories
• Magic City
• Magnificat
• Magnolia Leaves
• Magnolia Street
• Majors and Minors
• Mama Dot
• Mama Yetta and other poems
• Mama’s Promises
• Mammy’s Cracklin’ Bread and Other Poems
• Man Burns Ant
• Manuel Is Destroying My Bathroom
• Map Maker
• Margaret
• Marine Life: A World in Poems
• Maumau American Cantos
• Maybe The Saddest Thing
• me & Nina
• me, Aunt Jemima, and the nailgun
• MeDea
• Medicine Man: Collected Poems
• Meditations on the Rainbow
• Melissa & Smith
• Memories and Images: Selected Poems
• Mercurochrome : new poems
• Mercy
• Metropolis: Haiku
• Middle Ear
• Midland
• Midnight Blues in the Afternoon and Other Poems
• Midsummer
• Midway
• Migrant Worker
• Mint Tea and Other Stories
• Miracle Arrythmia
• Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color(with Marilyn Nelson, young adul
• Missing You, Metropolis
• Mississippi Witness: Poems
• Mixology
• Mongo Affair
• Montage of a Dream Deferred
• Moons and Low Times
• More Than an Athlete
• More Than Peace and Cypresses
• More to Remember
• Morning Come Quick
• Morning Glories
• Morning Glory: Poems
• Morning Haiku
• Morning Sun
• Most Way Home
• Mother Love
• Mouth on Paper
• Movement in Black
• Mule & Pear
• Multitudes
• Muscular Music
• Muse & Drudge
• Museum
• Music from home : Selected Poems
• Music’s Mask and Measure
• My Blackness Is the Beauty of This LandMy Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land
• My Country and Other Poems
• My Father’s Geography
• My Father’s Kites
• My Fear is 4 U
• My House: Poems
• My One Good Nerve: Rhythms, Rhymes, Reasons
• Myself Painting
• Naked Genius
• Naming It!
• Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems
• Nappy Edges
• Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man
• Nathaniel Talking
• Native Guard
• Natural Birth
• Natural Disasters and Other Festive Occasions
• Negro Soldiers and Other Poems
• Neighborhood and Other Poems
• Neighborhood Register
• Neon Vernacular
• Never As Strangers
• New and Collected Poems
• New and Selected Poems
• New and Selected Poems 1982-2011
• Next: New Poems
• Ni-Ban
• Nigger for Life
• Night on Neighborhood Street
• Night Star: 1973-1978
• Night When Moon Follows
• Nightmare Begins Responsibility
• No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black
• No Noose Is Good Noose
• No Sleep Til Brooklyn: New and Selected Poems
• Not a Man, and Yet A Man
• Not That Far
• Notes from the New Chitlin Circuit
• Nothin’ Ugly Fly
• Nothing in Nature Is Private
• Now and Then
• Now Is the Thing to Praise
• Nuggets of Gold
• O Africa, Where I Baked My Bread
• Oak and Ivy
• Objects
• Objects 2
• Octavia and Other Poems
• October Suite: A Novel
• Offerings of Desire
• Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
• On Call
• On Spec
• On the Bus with Rosa Parks
• On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems
• On the Pulse of Morning
• On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen
• On Wings Made of Gauze
• Once
• One and the many: poems
• One Girl Babylon
• Open Eye: Haiku
• Open Interval
• Open Interval
• Oral Tradition
• Original Anti-Slavery Songs
• Original Poems
• Ornate with Smoke
• Otherhood
• Otherness
• Our Dead Behind Us
• Our heroes: patriotic poems on men, women and sayings of the Negro race
• Our Name Be Witness
• Our Parenthetical Ontology
• Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings
• Outlandish Blues
• Outlantish
• Pagan Operetta
• Painkiller: Poems
• Pamoja Tutashina/Together We Will Win
• Pamoja Tutashinda: Together We Will Win
• Panther Man
• Paper Soul
• Paper Walls
• Parking Lots
• Party Crashers of Paradise
• Passing Over
• Passion
• Pastoral
• Paul Vesey’s Ledger
• Penciled Poems
• Perchance To Dream, Othello
• Personals
• Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia: poems, 1934-1943
• Phenomena
• Phenomenal Woman
• Piece Logic
• Piece of Time
• Pieta
• Pink Ladies in the Afternoon
• Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man’s Wares
• Pit Stop
• Plantation Echoes
• Playing the Changes
• Plea of the Negro Soldier and a Hundred Other Poems
• Please
• Pleasure Dome
• Plot
• Poem Counterpoem
• Poem Counterpoem
• Poemographies
• Poems
• Poems
• Poems
• Poems
• Poems
• Poems All Things Bright & Quadrille for Tigers
• Poems from Prison
• Poems in Conversation and a Conversation(with Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon)
• Poems of Cabin and Field
• Poems of Four Seas
• Poems of Love & Understanding
• Poems of the Black Object
• Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
• Poetic Gems
• Poetic Magnetic
• Poetic Pearls
• Polynomials and pollen: parables, proverbs, paradigms, and praise for Lois
• Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra
• Post Pardon
• Postcards
• Powerful Long Ladder
• Prairie Style
• Praise Song for the Day
• Prayers Like Shoes
• Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
• Present is a Dangerous Place to Live
• Presenting Living Poems
• Primer for Blacks
• Private Line
• Progeny of Air
• Prophets
• Provisions
• Psalm of the Sunflower
• Psalms of Redemption
• Pulling Scabs
• Puzzles
• Pyramid of Bone
• Quadrille for Tigers
• Quantum Lyrics
• Queen of the Ebony Isles
• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
• Quilting: Poems 1987-1991
• Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006
• Race Rhymes
• Rails Under My Back
• Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky
• Rainbow Signs
• Random History Lessons
• Rattlebone
• Raw Air
• re: f (gesture)
• Re:creation
• Reason For Singing
• Recitations
• Recognize
• Reconnecting Memories: Dreams No Longer Deferred
• Red Beans And Ricely Yours: Poems
• Red Clay Suite
• Red Summer
• Remembrances of spring: collected early poems
• Renaissance
• Rendezvous with America
• Requiem
• Resisting the Anomie
• Restoration: Poems
• Restoring the Queen
• Resurrections
• Revising the Storm
• Revolutionary Love
• Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
• Rhode Island: Eight Poems
• Rhymes from the Cumberland
• Rice
• Ridin’ the Moon in Texas: Word Paintings
• Riding Westward
• Rift: Poems
• Riot
• Rise
• River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
• River to Cross
• Rock Harbor
• Rogue Hemlocks
• Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
• Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
• Ropes
• Rosemary and Pansies
• Rules for Cool
• Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook
• Rundown
• S*PeRM**K*T
• Sacrilegion
• Safari West
• Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
• Sam’s World: Poems
• Sancocho - A Book of Nuyorican Poetry
• Sanctificum
• Sandy Point
• Scan-Spans: A Book of Original Poetry
• Scarifications
• Scattered Scripture
• School of Udhra
• Screams, Moans, and Lullabies
• Scrimshaw
• Sean Pendragon Requiem
• Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain
• Second April
• Secrets of My Soul
• Seismosis
• Selected Poems
• Selected Poems
• Selected Poems
• Selected Poems
• Selected Poems
• Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
• Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones
• Selections from the Poetical Meditations of Marcus Garvey
• Sense Memory
• Senses & Shadows
• Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars
• Septet for the End of Time
• Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned To Begging
• Shady-Rest
• Shahid Reads His Own Palm
• Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
• Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing?
• Shattered Kente & a Maelstrom of Blackness : A 3-Suite of Scorched Earth Poetry & Afrikan Love Songs
• She Has a Name
• Shook Foil
• Short History of the Saxaphone
• Signals
• Sin
• Singing the Bones Together
• Six Cylinder Olympus
• Sketches from Life in Dixie
• Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Problems
• Skulls along the River
• Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
• Sleeping with the Dictionary
• Sleeping with the Moon
• Slo’ Dance
• Slow Coins
• Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems
• Small Talk at 125th and Lenox: A Collection of Black Poems
• Smith Blue
• Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems 1969-1977
• Snapshots from Istanbul
• So What: For the White Dude Who Said This Aint Poetry
• Soft Song
• Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
• Solo in the Boxcar Third Floor E
• Some Are Drowning
• Some Days it
• Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems
• Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni, etc.
• Some One Sweet Angel Chile
• Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
• Somehow We Survive
• Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry
• Sometimes I think of Maryland
• Sometimes I Wonder
• Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere
• Song for Anninho
• Song for Maya
• Song for My Sisters
• Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20
• Song of Thieves
• Song: I Want a Witness
• Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems
• Songlines: Mosaics
• Songs from an Afro/Phone
• Songs From the Dark: Original Poems
• Songs from the Wayside
• Songs of a Blackbird
• Songs of Jamaica
• Songs of Jubilee: Selected and New Poems
• Songs of Life
• Songs of My People
• Songs of the Months
• Songs of the Soil
• Sonnets
• Soothsayers and Omens
• Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
• Soul Train
• Sound Science
• South Eastern Stages
• South Louisiana: New and Selected Poems
• South of Here
• Southern Road
• Southern roads/city pavements and we must rise
• Southside Rain
• Speak Low: poems
• Speaking Through My Skin
• Spherical
• Spice of Dawns: A Book of Verse
• Spill
• Spirit Run
• Spirits Distilled
• Spit Back a Boy
• Splay Anthem
• Star by star: poems
• Stations In a Dream
• Stellar Places
• Steps to Break the Circle
• Still Breathing
• Stills
• Storefront Church
• Storms Beneath the Skin
• Stormy Blues
• Street Smarts
• Strength Like Yours
• Stumphole: Aunthology of Bakwoods Blood
• Suck on the Marrow
• Suckle
• Suitcase
• Sunbeams
• Surfaces and Masks
• Suspended Knowledge
• Swag
• Swallow the Lake
• Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World
• Swimming Swimmers Swimming
• Symptoms and Madness
• Tableau
• Taboo
• Take My Eyes to the Dry Cleaners
• Take No Prisoners
• Talisman
• Talking Dirty to the Gods
• Tamarind and Mango Women
• Tampon Class
• Tap-Root
• Tarnish and Masquerade
• Teahouse of the Almighty
• Teducation
• Teeth
• Ten Oxherding Pictures
• Tender
• That Word
• The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto
• The Ancient Rain: Poems, 1956-1978
• The Antioch Suite-Jazz
• The Autobiography of a Jukebox
• The Ballad of the Brown Girl
• The Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics
• The Bathers
• The Bean Eaters
• The Beautiful Days
• The Beautiful Days and Others
• The Big Gate
• The Bird Gang
• The Black Automaton
• The Black Back-Ups
• The Black Cat Club
• The Black Christ and Other Poems
• The Black Unicorn
• The Black Unicorn Sings
• The Block
• The Blood in the Desert’s Eyes
• The Blues Don’t Change: New and Selected Poems
• The Blues Merchant
• The Blues Merchant
• The Body’s Question
• The Book of Light
• The Broken Bowl
• The Butterfly Hotel
• The Cachoeira Tales, and Other Poems
• The Cadence of Echoes
• The City and Other Poems
• The Civil War in Baltimore
• The Clearing and Beyond
• The Collected Poems of Elma Stuckey
• The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer
• The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown
• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
• The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
• The Coming of Chronos to the House of Nightsong: An Epical Narrative of the South
• The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
• The Confession Stone: Song Cycles
• The Cotton Club
• The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love
• The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005
• The Dead Lecturer: Poems
• The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods
• The Definition of Place
• The Devil’s Garden
• The Dialect Poetry of Claude McKay
• The Double Invention of Komo
• The Dream Detective
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
• The Dreaming Skull
• The Eagle’s Vision
• The Emancipation Car
• The Empress of the Death House
• The End of the Alphabet
• The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems
• The Eye of the Tornado: fifty poems for rhyme and reason
• The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
• The First Cities
• The Fledgling Bard
• The Forbidden Poems
• The Fortunate Traveller
• The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Afric
• The Gathering of My Name
• The God Engine
• The Goddess of Goodbye
• The Golden Web
• The Gospel of Barbeque
• The Graveyard Also Has Teeth
• The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two
• The Headless Saints
• The Heart As Ever Green
• The Heart of a Woman
• The Heart of the World
• The Heat, the Day, and This Moment
• The Hermit-Woman
• The Hero Project of the Century
• The Homecoming Singer
• The Homeplace
• The Hope of Liberty
• The House of Falling Leaves
• The Inventory of Black Roses
• The Land of Smiles and the Land of No Smiles
• The Language of Saxophones
• The Language of Shedding Skin
• The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
• The Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems
• The Life and Times of Susie Knuckles
• The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street
• The Lipstick Papers
• The Listening
• The Logan Topographies
• The Long Gap
• The Long Gap
• The Magic Sun Spins
• The Man with the White Liver
• The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992
• The Matrix: Poems, 1969-1970
• The Maverick Room
• The Medea and Some Other Poems
• The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go
• The Moon Is My Witness
• The Morning Hour
• The Mud Actor
• The Music We Are
• The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues
• The Mystic Female
• The Naked Frame: A Love Poem and Sonnets
• The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems
• the new black
• The Niggered Amen
• The Open Door
• The Panther and the Lash
• The Passion of Claude McKay
• The Path of Dreams
• The Peacock Poems
• The Place Within Where the Universe Resides
• The Plum Flower Dance
• The Poet and Other Poems
• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton
• The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell
• The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
• The Problem, and Other Poems
• The Province of Literary Cats
• The Ransomed Wait
• The Red Crab Gang and Black River Poems
• The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise Considered
• The Requited Distance
• The Rest of Love
• The River Is Rising
• The Road To Jamaica
• The Rocks Cry Out
• The seasoning
• The Shine Poems
• The Song Turning Back into Itself
• The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000
• The Speed of Our Lives
• The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
• The Strangers Between
• The Stratospheric Canticles
• The Subtle Art of Breathing
• The Sylvan Cabin
• The Syncopated Cakewalk
• The Tale of the Harmattan
• The Tan Chanteuse
• The Tar Baby on the Soapbox
• The Ten Lights of God
• The Terrible Stories
• The Tether
• The Tie That Binds
• The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home
• The Treehouse and Other Poems
• The Unscene
• The Venus Hottentot
• The Views and Meditations of John Brown
• The Vital System
• The Water Between Us
• The Watermelon Dress: Portrait of a Woman
• The Weary Blues
• The Weather That Kills
• The Whetting of Teeth
• The Widening Light
• The Wings of Oppression
• The Women and the Men
• The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women
• The Words Don’t Fit In My Mouth
• The World is Round
• The Wright Poems
• The Yellow House on the Corner
• There Are No Names For Red
• These Black Bodies and This Sunburnt Face
• These Halves are Whole
• They Shall Run—Harriet Tubman Poems
• They speak of dawns : a duo-poem written for the centennial year of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1
• Thieves of Paradise
• Things I Must Have Known
• Things That I Do in the Dark
• This is My Century: New and Collected Poems
• This Is the Red Door
• This Land of Fire
• This One for You
• This Poem Means
• This Strange Land
• This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
• This Way I Salute You
• Thomas and Beulah
• Those Who Ride the Night Winds
• Thoughts in Verse
• Thoughts of an Everyday Woman : An Unfinished Urban Folktale
• Through the ceiling
• Through the Stonecutter’s Window
• Thumbprint
• Timber & Prayer: The Indian Pond poems
• Timbuktu Blues
• Times Now/Ya es tiempo
• To and From
• To Darnell and Johnny
• To Disembark
• To Flower
• To Repel Ghosts
• To See the Earth Before the End of the World
• To Us, All Flowers Are Roses
• Tokyo Butter: Poems
• Totem
• Tougaloo Blues
• Tough Boy Sonatas
• Toys in a Field
• Transbluesency : the selected poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995)
• Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems
• Transfer
• Transfigurations: Collected Poems
• Travelling Mercies
• Travelling Music
• Tree Tall Woman
• Trimmings
• Troubled Soul Refinery
• Troubled Soul Refinery
• Troubled Tongues
• Tug
• Tug
• Turn of Heaven
• Turn Thanks
• Twasinta
• Two Rooms
• Two Selections from Giscombe Road
• Two-Headed Woman
• Typing in the Dark
• Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare
• Under a Soprano Sky
• Under Peace Rising
• Under the Sun
• Under the Sunday Tree
• Underlife
• Unlikely & Other Sorts
• Up Jump the Boogie
• Up on the Down Side
• Urban Poetry
• Use Trouble : Poems
• Utterance
• Valley of the Anointers
• Vanished
• Veins and Rivers
• Vice: New and Selected Poems
• Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
• Violets and Other Tales
• Vision of Sunset: And Other Poems
• Visions of the Dusk
• Voice
• Voices
• Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In
• Voo Doo Love Magic
• Voodoo Chile
• Waiting for Sweet Betty
• Waiting for the Hatching Cockerel
• Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems
• Walden
• Walden
• Walking Back From Woodstock
• Warhorses
• Water Song
• Watercourse
• Waves & Lisence
• We A BaddDDD People
• We Are Young Magicians
• We Did Not Fear the Father: New and Selected Poems
• We Don’t Need No Music
• We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
• Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
• Weh Down Souf and other poems
• What Keeps us Here
• What Madness Brought Me Here: New & Selected Poems 1968-88
• What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
• What We Ask of Flesh
• What Yellow Sounds Like: Poems
• Whatsaid Serif
• Wheels
• When Angels Speak of Love
• When I Know the Power of My Black Hand
• When Malindy Sings
• When the clouds clear
• When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering
• When Thy King is a Boy
• When Winter Come: The Ascension of York
• When You Grow Up: Poems for Children
• Where are the Love Poems for Dictators?
• Where is the Music
• Where River Meets Ocean
• Where the Apple Falls
• Where the Birds Sing Base
• Where the Road Turns
• Whichever
• Whispers, Secrets and Promises
• white
• Who Look at Me
• Who Pays the Cost
• Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989
• Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner
• Wild Meat
• Wind in a Box
• Wind Thoughts
• Wing of Memory
• Wings of a Stranger
• Winnie
• Winters Without Snow
• Wisdom Teeth
• Wise, Why
• Wishful Thinking
• Wisteria: Poems from the Swamp Country
• With More Than Tongue
• Woman Writing a Letter
• Womanslaughter
• Words in the Mourning Time: Poems
• Worldly Pleasures
• Wounded in the House of a Friend
• Wrong
• Xarque and Other Poems
• You Can See It From Here
• You Don’t Miss Your Water
• Younger Than Neil
• Zalka Peetruza and Other Poems
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Author Stats

• Marilyn Nelson
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• Birth: 1946
• Death: 0
• Hometown: Cleveland, OH