Celebrating Black History Month

• • Harlem

  Langston Hughes
  
• • On Liberty and Slavery

  George Moses Horton
  
• • Lift Every Voice and Sing

  James Weldon Johnson
  
• • Praise Song for the Day

  Elizabeth Alexander
  
• • I, Too

  Langston Hughes
  
• • Frederick Douglass

  Robert Hayden
  
• • Caged Bird

  Maya Angelou
  
• • For My People

  Margaret Walker
  
• • Riot

  Gwendolyn Brooks
  
• • Narrative: Ali

  Elizabeth Alexander
  
• • Canary

  Rita Dove
  
• • Booker T. and W.E.B.

  Dudley Randall
  
• • Georgia Dusk

  Jean Toomer
  
• • In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.

  June Jordan
  
• • Malcolm X, February 1965

  E. Ethelbert Miller
  
• • American History

  Michael S. Harper
  
• • The African Burial Ground

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  
• • A Negro Love Song

  Paul Laurence Dunbar
  
• • Middle Passage

  Robert Hayden
  
• • from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass

  Evie Shockley
  
• • Ode to Big Trend

  Terrance Hayes
  
• • waiting on the mayflower

  Evie Shockley
  
• • Nina's Blues

  Cornelius Eady
  
• • 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer

  June Jordan
  
• • Race

  Elizabeth Alexander
  
• • History as Process

  Amiri Baraka
  
• • Ballad of Birmingham

  Dudley Randall
  
• •   Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”

  Claudia Rankine
  
• • From the Unwritten Letters of Joseph Freeman

  Camille T. Dungy
  
• • Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #2

  Krista Franklin
  
• • Green-Thumb Boy

  Marilyn Nelson
  
• • The Laws of Motion

  Nikki Giovanni
  
• • Billie Holiday

  E. Ethelbert Miller
  
• • American Income

  Afaa Michael Weaver
  
• • The Slave Auction

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  
• • Miz Rosa Rides the Bus

  Angela Jackson
  
• • The Gospel of Barbecue

  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  
• • Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary

  Kevin Young
  
• • A Black Man Talks of Reaping

  Arna Bontemps
  
• • Runagate Runagate

  Robert Hayden
  
• • Black Boys Play the Classics

  Toi Derricotte
  
• • Ode to Herb Kent

  Jamila Woods
  
• • alternate names for black boys

  Danez Smith
  
• • Sorrow Home

  Margaret Walker
  
• • Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League

  Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.
  
• • faithless

  Quraysh Ali Lansana
  
• • Enlightenment

  Natasha Trethewey
  
• • Harlem Shadows

  Claude McKay
  
• • Southern Gothic

  Rickey Laurentiis
  
• • Ghana Calls

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  
• • Dancing with Strom

  Nikky Finney
  
• • __________ my loved blacknesses & some blacknesses I knew

  Khadijah Queen
  
• • Afterimages

  Audre Lorde
  
• • [up from slobbery]

  Harryette Mullen
  
• • Robeson at Rutgers

  Elizabeth Alexander
  
• • The Fifth Fact

  Sarah Browning
  
• • Rwanda: Where Tears Have No Power

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  
• • The Great Pax Whitie

  Nikki Giovanni
  
• • from Citizen: “Some years there exists a wanting to escape...”

  Claudia Rankine
  
• • Poem for My Father

  Quincy Troupe
  
• •  Take Me Out to the Go-Go

  Thomas Sayers Ellis
  
• • Slave Sale: New Orleans

  Charles Reznikoff
  
• • We Real Cool

  Gwendolyn Brooks
  

• • 200 Years of Afro-American Poetry

  Langston Hughes
  
• • The Black Poet as Canon-Maker

  Elizabeth Alexander
  
• • The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

  Langston Hughes
  
• • The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America

  June Jordan
  
• • “Finding a Window”

  Kimberly Reyes
  
• • Lights and Shadows

  Delaney Hall
  
• • Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood

  June Jordan
  
• • Blueprint for BreakBeat Writing

  Nate Marshall
  
• • Beware the Dog

  Abigail Deutsch
  
• • Langston Hughes and the Broadway Blues

  Franklin Bruno
  
• • Jazz as Communication

  Langston Hughes
  
• • Playing by Ear, Praying for Rain: The Poetry of James Baldwin

  Nikky Finney
  
• • She Could Tell You Stories

  Lucille Clifton interviewed by Hilary Holladay (Hilary Holladay)
  
• • The Roads Taken

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  
• • Life Upon These Shores

  Lavelle Porter
  
• • Way Out of Africa

  Charles Mudede
  
• • Art, Artifice, and Artifact

  Quraysh Ali Lansana
  
• • Music in the Blood

  Elias Rodriques
  

• • With A Little Help from Dr. Angelou

  The Editors
  
• • Experience, Experiment

  Patricia Spears Jones
  
• • Square Toes and Icy Arms

  Catherine Barnett
  
• • Verse Journalism: The Poet as Witness

  Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff
  
• • Maya Angelou 101

  The Editors
  
• • Gwendolyn Brooks 101

  Danielle Chapman
  
• • Elizabeth Alexander: “Race”

  Stephanie Burt
  
• • Nikky Finney: “The Afterbirth, 1931”

  Kwame Dawes
  
• • Gwendolyn Brooks: “kitchenette building”

  Hannah Brooks-Motl
  
• • Robert Hayden: “Those Winter Sundays”

  David Biespiel
  
• • Lucille Clifton: “won't you celebrate with me”

  Robin Ekiss
  

• • No Images

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Follow the Drinking Gourd

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Beautiful Voices Project

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Amiri Baraka is Back in the Building

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Middle Passage

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Obamapoetics

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • Social Media, Race, and Disney Princesses

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • I've Known Rivers

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • When the Weary Blues Met Jazz

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • June Jordan

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • History's Lost and Found

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • "Without the Blues There Would Be No Jazz"

  From The Poetry Magazine Podcast
  
• • April 2015: "Cast Poems in the River and Tell Them You Remember"

  From The Poetry Magazine Podcast
  
• • The Snowed-in Life

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • A Name Like a Handcuff

  From Poetry Off the Shelf
  
• • From the Washington, DC, Poetry Tour

  From Poetry Off the Shelf