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  • Angelina W. Grimke

    Tenebris
    A Winter Twilight
    The Black Finger
    For the Candle Light


    Toi Derricotte

    The Weakness
    On a Picture of the Buddhist Monk Pema Chodron


    Ntozake Shange

    People of Watts
    you are sucha fool
    My Father Is a Retired Magician
    Blood Rhythms - Blood Currents - Black N' Blue Stylin'


    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Enigma
    Oblivion
    Dead Fires
    Words! Words!
    Noblesse Oblige
    La Vie C'est la Vie


    Natasha Trethewey

    Flounder
    Letter Home
    Domestic Work, 1937


    Margaret Walker

    Dark Blood
    Molly Means
    Sorrow Home
    Southern Song
    I Want to Write
    We Have Been Believers


    Langston Hughes


    Cross
    Dreams
    My People
    Minstrel Man
    Mother to Son
    Po' Boy Blues
    Dream Deferred
    Dream Variations
    Dinner Guest: Me
    Children's Rhymes


    Cultural Exchange
    I, Too, Sing America
    Madam and the Phone Bill


    Sterling A. Brown

    Old Lem
    Southern Road
    Riverbank Blues
    Slim Greer in Hell


    Claude McKay


    Truth
    Baptism
    Heritage
    Jasmine
    Tormented
    I Know My Soul
    After the Winter
    The Tired Worker
    The Negro's Friend
    The Tropics in New York


    Claude McKay - 2

    America
    Wild May
    The Easter Flower
    To One Coming North
    Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table


    Claude McKay - 3     ~New ~

    To O.E.A.
    Flame-Heart
    Harlem Shadows
    Song of the Moon
    Spring in New Hampshire


    Anne Spencer


    Lady, Lady
    White Things
    The Wife-Woman
    Black Man o' Mine
    Letter to My Sister
    For Jim, Easter Eve
    Lines to a Nasturtium
    Life-Long, Poor Browning


  • Black Poetry - Famous Poetry and Poems
     
    Robert Hayden
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/roberthayden.html

    Sterling Brown
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/sterlingbrown.html

    Rita Dove
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/ritadove.html

    Maya Angelou
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/mayaangelou.html

    Lucille Clifton
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/lucilleclifton.html

    Paul L. Dunbar
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/pauldunbar.html

    Jean Toomer
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/jeantoomer.html

    Nikki Giovanni
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/nikkigiovanni.html

    Langston Hughes
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/langstonhughes.html

    Countee Cullen
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/counteecullen.html

    Tupac Shakur
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/tupacshakur.html

    Gwendolyn Brooks
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/gwendolynbrooks.html

    Claude McKay
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/claudemckay.html


    Anne Spencer
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/annespencer.html

    Arna Bontemps
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/arnabontemps.html

    June Jordan
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/junejordan.html

    Quincy Troupe      ~ NEW POET - 7 new poems ~
    http://www.AfroPoets.Net/quincytroupe.html

     

    FAMOUS BLACK POEMS & POETS


    Excellent Resource to Research Famous African American Poets!

    Excellent Resource For Famous Black Poetry

    Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Countee Cullen, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Dick Gregory, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Rita Dove, Sonia Sanchez, Claude McKay, Sekou Sundiata, and more!

    Lesson

    Research one of the following cultures to gain an understanding of their customs, beliefs, traditions, clothing, environment. You will use this information later to make a poem.  To become a well-rounded poet means that you have to look outside of your own customs and beliefs.  In doing so, you will learn more techniques and ways to manipulate language.

    Cultures

    1. Amish

    2. Eskimos

    3. Masai

    4. Aborigines

    5. Ethiopian

    6. Jamaican

    7. Mexican

    8. Polynesians

    9. Native American

    10. Indian

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