Black & African American
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar [Dunbar, Paul Laurence]

THE LYNCHING OF JUBE BENSON Gordon Fairfax’s library held but three men, but the air was dense with clouds of smoke. The talk had drifted from one topic to another ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rickey Laurentiis [Laurentiis, Rickey]

21. When did you decide to try your endurance, To turn back on this world dressed in a spectral night? You know it by the ash, the wake of the ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Terrance Hayes

Slithering, their faces calculating absolutes while the trash bags Shimmered in a fiasco of light. When I looked up, I saw Boomie nearly twenty feet high in the arms of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Terrance Hayes

grain the only music he’d hear? Is this why you were quiet when other poets sang of the black man’s beauty? Is this why you choked on the tonsil of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins’s latest collection is Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). He is the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 ...
( Category: Black & African American January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Unknown

■to my friend, jerina listen, when i found there was no safety in my father’s house i knew there was none anywhere. you are right about this, how i ...
( Category: Black & African American January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Joan R. Sherman

Prayers have risen, risen, risen, From the cotton fields and prison; Though the overseer stood with lash in hand, Groaned the overburdened heart; Not a tear-drop dared to start — ...
( Category: Black & African American January 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Rita Dove

RIGHT-HAND MAIDEN: (impatiently) So you can’t go to “The Black Camel” because you don’t know about it yet! HEAD MAIDEN: According to our records . . . (unscrolls a lengthy, ...
( Category: Black & African American January 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-03 | Author:Pierre Alex Jeanty

Unfortunately This pain, it aches deep. To take off your armor and lay it at the feet of someone who you hold dear, only for them to create a losing ...
( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )
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( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chet'la Sebree

Is it the Taurus in me seeking the path of most resistance: single parenthood, poetry, and, once upon a time, you? * * * I love the title of Barbara ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Adrian Matejka [Matejka, Adrian]

GYMNOPÉDIES NO. 3 This sunlight on snow. This decrescendo of covered stumps & brush—stop for it. Stop before the sled end-over-ends down the chin of the hill—the way it always ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]

A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Dear Martin, Great God, what a morning, Martin! The sun is rolling in from faraway places. I watch it reaching out, circling these ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Walker

I PRAY FOR YOU I pray for you to love the precious body this lifetime has given you as I love it. In youth every speeding motorcycle beckoned to turn ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-25 | Author:Tarriona "Tank" Ball

“You” Stuff You are smelly hair That I play in way too much You are little lips That I crave more than I should You are fingers everywhere but the ...
( Category: Black & African American December 17,2022 )