The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude

Rita Dove

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

Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove

The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness

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


		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

		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 White House by Claude McKay

		We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

		We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar