Reunion 2005- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rita Dove

The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the Poet Laureate for the United State from 1993 to 1995...
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		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

Reunion 2005
by Rita Dove




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October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive