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Poems by This Author

4/30/92 for rodney king by Lucille Clifton so blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton may the tide cutting greens by Lucille Clifton curling them around far memory by Lucille Clifton my knees recall the pockets here rests by Lucille Clifton my sister Josephine it was a dream by Lucille Clifton in which my greater self jasper texas 1998 by Lucille Clifton i am a man's head hunched in the road miss rosie by Lucille Clifton when I watch you mulberry fields by Lucille Clifton they thought the field was wasting my dream about being white by Lucille Clifton hey music and me only white poem in praise of menstruation by Lucille Clifton if there is a river poem to my uterus by Lucille Clifton you uterus sisters by Lucille Clifton me and you be sisters... sorrows by Lucille Clifton who would believe them winged the earth is a living thing by Lucille Clifton is a black shambling bear the lost baby poem by Lucille Clifton the time i dropped your almost body down the lost women by Lucille Clifton i need to know their names to my last period by Lucille Clifton well, girl, goodbye wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton won't you celebrate with me

Further Reading

Poems about the Body A Hand by Jane Hirshfield After tagging the dust your body is made of by Jen Tynes Anatomy by Monica Ferrell Bodyweight by Matthew Schwartz Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours by John Hodgen Ghost in the Land of Skeletons by Christopher Kennedy Guessing My Death [excerpt] by CAConrad Human Atlas by Marianne Boruch I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman In the Surgical Theatre by Dana Levin Slight Tremor by Linda Gregerson Textbook & Absence (Anatomy) by Catherine Barnett The Tongue by Chris Martin Poems Teens Like Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg A Muse by Reginald Shepherd Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child by Darcy Cummings Ave Maria by Frank O'Hara Ballad by Sonia Sanchez Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point by Stephen Dunn Cicada by John Blair Coach Losing His Daughter by Jack Ridl Dangerous for Girls by Connie Voisine Deer Hit by Jon Loomis Eating Poetry by Mark Strand Falling by James Dickey Ground Swell by Mark Jarman Hyper- by David Baker In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte Lady Tactics by Anne Waldman Mairsy and Dosey by Sharon Olds Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye Mermaid Song by Kim Addonizio Notes from the Other Side by Jane Kenyon Patience by Kay Ryan Possum Crossing by Nikki Giovanni Sticks by Thomas Sayers Ellis Thanks by W. S. Merwin That Sure is My Little Dog by Eleanor Lerman The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Fist by Derek Walcott The New Higher by John Ashbery The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland The Wild Iris by Louise Glück The Young Man's Song by W. B. Yeats White Apples by Donald Hall Workshop by Billy Collins Black History A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar A Song for Many Movements by Audre Lorde American History by Michael S. Harper Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes Dreams by Langston Hughes For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar Haircut by Elizabeth Alexander Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Redmon Fauset Langston Blue by Jericho Brown Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson Quatrains by Gwendolyn Bennett Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove Song of the Son by Jean Toomer Still I Rise by Maya Angelou The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude by Rita Dove The White House by Claude McKay We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar