Excerpt from "Brief Notes On Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want To Die"
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This
It's Just That I'm Not Really Into Politics
The Prestige
There is a Street Named After Martin Luther King Jr. in Every City
The Summer A Tribe Called Quest Broke Up
A Bird, came down the Walk
‘Faith’ is a fine invention
Forever – is composed of Nows —
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340)
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263)
They shut me up in Prose
This is my letter to the World
This World is not Conclusion
[Untitled- Split the Lark]
Wild nights - Wild nights!
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison”]
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous] (Edited)
American Sonnet for the New Year
Carp Poem
excerpt from “How to Draw an Invisible Man”
George Floyd
April Rain Song
Dreams
Dream Variations
Dust Bowl
Excerpt from "Let America be America Again"
Grandpa's Stories
Harlem
Harlem Sweeties
If-ing
I look at the world
Impasse
I, Too
Laughers
Mother to Son
Poem
Suicide's Note
The Dream Keeper
Theme for English B
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Tired
Words Like Freedom
Youth
excerpt from “Letter to Justin, Age Seven, Regarding Any Possible Mixed-Race Anxieties Which One Might Experience in the Near or Distant Future”
Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed Into a Bar of Chocolate
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now
Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America
Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
Spock as a Metaphor for the Construction of Race During My Childhood
Ten Letters to the Angel of Death