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Poems by This Author

Adolescence II by Rita Dove Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. from Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons] by Rita Dove Shirtsleeved afternoons Ludwig Van Beethoven's Return to Vienna by Rita Dove Three miles from my adopted city The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude by Rita Dove Under the Viaduct, 1932 by Rita Dove Vacation by Rita Dove I love the hour before takeoff Weathering Out by Rita Dove She liked mornings the best—Thomas gone

Further Reading

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 homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton 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 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