The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito (Miguel Pinero Poems)
Before the beginningGod created GodIn the beginningGod created the ghettos & slumsand God saw this was good.So God said,"Let there ...
Poems about harlem (21 Poems)
Uncle Rufus (Melvin B Tolson Poems)
The Harlem Advocate fell between his legs.The story was incredible!Taking off his glasses,Uncle Rufus rubbed the lenses and thought.though.Yes, his ...
Jazzonia (Langston Hughes Poems)
Oh, silver tree!Oh, shining rivers of the soul!In a Harlem cabaretSix long-headed jazzers play.A dancing girl whose eyes are boldLifts ...
Deceased (Langston Hughes Poems)
HarlemSent him homein a long box-Too deadTo know why:The lickerWas lye.(Langston Hughes)
My Sad Self (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
To Frank O'HaraSometimes when my eyes are red I go up on top of the RCA Building ...
Discovery Of Printing (Elihu Hubbard Smith Poems)
For unknown ages, mid his wild abode,Speechless *nd rude the human savage trode;By slow degrees expressive sounds acquired,And simple thoughts ...
Birds And Bards (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
When Milton sang "O nightingale That on yon gloomy spray,"The sonneteer whom we revere Lauded that birdie's lay.While Keats's ode ...
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine (Etheridge Knight Poem)
And, yeah brothers while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown (who was hustling the titanic when it went ...
Scars on Paper (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
Juke Box Love Song (Langston Hughes Poem)
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the ...
Night Funeral In Harlem (Langston Hughes Poem)
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay-- His insurance ...
Theme For English B (Langston Hughes Poem)
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it ...
Psalm IV (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Now I'll record my secret vision, impossible sight of the face of God: It was no dream, I lay broad ...
The Lion For Real (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
White Nassau (Bliss Carman Poem)
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
Why Washington Retreated (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them ...
Into the Dusk-Charged Air (John Ashbery Poem)
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
Harlem Shadows (Claude McKay Poems)
I hear the halting footsteps of a lass In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall Its veil. I see ...
La Paloma in London (Claude McKay Poems)
About Soho we went before the light; We went, unresting six, craving new fun, New scenes, new raptures, for the ...
Bitterness (Philip Levine Poems)
Here in February, the fine dark branches of the almond begin to sprout tiny clusters of leaves, sticky to the ...