Pattern
Excerpt from "Brief Notes On Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want To Die"
Afghan Funeral in Paris
Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Arab Girl
Afro-Latina
Ode to the Head Nod
Bilingual
The Star Spanglish Banner
Against the Parts of Me That Think They Know Anything
A Blank White Page
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles
Ode to My Shoes
Praise Song for the Day
Stationery
Honeymoon
body without the "d"
When I Grow Up
Alone
Caged Bird
Come, and Be my Baby
Phenomenal Woman
Still I Rise
Twelfth Song of Thunder [Navajo Tradition]
Meditation on a Grapefruit
Old Country (Edited)
Pluto Shits on the Universe
Men Compliment Me
Cento Between the Ending and the End
Love Poem
Meditations in an Emergency
That Girl
I Am Offering This Poem
Caterpillars
Excerpt from "Giovanni's Room"
Excerpt from "The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook"
As a Possible Lover
Ka 'Ba
my dad asks "how come black folk can't just write about flowers?"
[An ancient pond!]
Ode to Fat
Little Stones at My Window
Excerpt from "Blessings"
r u dense ? {I'm the Baddest Kiss}
failed avoidance of 'the body' in a poem
Excerpt from "The Fish"
One Art
Vivisection
Chemotherapy
The Ecchoing Green
My Father in English
The Pedestrian
A Heart Can Be Broken Only Once, Like A Window
Lies I Tell
Mexcian Bingo (Edited)
Oh Wonder
Boy Breaking Glass
Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward
The Boy Died in My Alley
To the Young Who Want to Die
truth
How to Tell My Dad that I Kissed a Man
Duplex
Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry
The Microscopes
working title
Bluebird (Edited)
Excerpt from "Parable of the Sower"
Excerpt from “The Glass Essay”
Excerpt from "Obit" [Blame]
Excerpt from "Obit" [Empathy]
Untitled
Tea
i love you to the moon &
Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert
Bluet
Excerpt from "The Yellow House"
Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
A Self-Portrait
Excerpt from "The First Black Bachelorette"
Mixed Bitch
My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work
blessing the boats
poem in praise of menstruation
why some people be mad at me sometimes
won’t you celebrate with me
Excerpt from "Between the World and Me" 1
Excerpt from "Between The World And Me" 2
Bedtime Story
Dear Mama (4)
On Turning Ten
What's Not to Love
In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
Fruit Of The Flower
i thank You God for most this amazing
[love is more thicker than forget]
maggie and milly and molly and may
Black Stars
Where Did You Get That Pick-Up Line? You Should Drop it Back Off
Flu Season
Not This (Edited)
Learning Whitney
Poem That Gives No Fucks
Joy #1
Shifting the Sun
Why I don't write about George Floyd
From the Desire Field
They Don't Love You Like I Love You
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263)
[Untitled- Split the Lark]
Heartbeats
Why Bother?
Heart to Heart
Party Dress for a First Born
The Debt
We Wear the Mask
Characteristics of Life
Trophic Cascade
Sweetness
Magnitude and Bond
Excerpt from "Faceless"
Ode to Gossips
Self-Portrait With No Flag
Self-Portrait without Stitches
Fuck / Shakespeare
Daveen
Mind Over Matter
Bilingual / Bilingüe
A Guide to Reading Trans Literature
Autopainophile
I Turn the Volume Down Because Beyonce Says Fuck in Car While I Drive My Daughter to School
I come from the fire city
what I mean when I say I’m sharpening my oyster knife
Self-Portrait as Slinky
The Sacrifice
Letter
Thank God I Can't Drive
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]
Bilingual Blues
At Twenty-Eight
fat girl Confuses Food & Therapy, Again
Confronting Hatred
Mercy
Urban Girl Writes another Poem About Her Dead Father
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep
Little Weapon
Potato Chips
A Small Needful Fact
Love, I'm Done with You
Sorrow Is Not My Name
Excerpt from "Hunger"
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
Excerpt from "America"
Allowables
Choices
I Take Master Card (Charge Your Love To Me)
Legacies
My First Memory (of Librarians)
Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador
The Red Poppy
Failed Essay on Privilege
Birthright
Some of My Worst Wounds
The Hill We Climb
Gallery Songs
That's So Lame
The Resurrection
Stomp
My Brilliant Image
Excerpt from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley"
Clarinet
Excerpt from "She Had Some Horses"
For Earth's Grandsons
Remember
Song for the People
Makin' Jump Shots
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45
Those Winter Sundays
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (Edited)
Carp Poem
George Floyd
Invictus
Five Directions to My House
Social Distancing
Nothing
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft
The Promise
Cardi B Tells Me About Myself
[Death is nothing at all]
Excerpt from "Let America be America Again"
Harlem Sweeties
Impasse
Mother to Son
Poem
Theme for English B
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Words Like Freedom
Excerpt from "How It Feels To Be Colored Me"
Excerpt from "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Excerpt from "Bigger Than Life"
Assimilation Bouquet
RuPaul Gives The Black Girl Miracle Her First Lesson in Realness
A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair
Selah
Wishes
Your World
Art vs. Trade
Sleep
TRANS IS AGAINST NOSTALGIA
Blue Prelude
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades
Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.
These Poems
Besaydoo
Elegy for Bruce Lee
micro
pansexual
Break up with your gender, I’m bored
What It Do Done Red
Sanctuary
The bottoms of my shoes
Diaspora #1
Bad Mood, Baker Beach
Excerpt From Belly Song
First Grade
Beauty is My Revenge
Anodyne
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
You and I Are Dissapearing
Graduation
Excerpt from "Momma"
Insha'Allah
Small Kindnesses
my graduation speech
Excerpt from "Heavy: An American Memoir"
From Blossoms
One Heart
Out of Hiding
Spratchet
Summer
Before
How to Triumph Like a Girl
The Conditional
The Raincoat
I Used to Pray
The Lovers
Obligations 2
Gacela of the Remembrance of Love
A Litany for Survival
Coping
Excerpt from "Power"
Now
Don't Pretty Me
Still, I Don’t Love My Father
Excerpt from "Like Totally Whatever"
Excerpt from "My Spanish"
The Women in My Family Are Bitches
Some Girls
Everyone I Love is Drafting Their Own Eulogies
Excerpt from "Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela"
Here's an Ocean Tale
Like a Freedom Too Strange to be Conquered
Rememory
praise song
Athazagoraphobia (Fear of Being Ignored)
Pomegranate Means Grenade
There Are Birds Here
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
Wolf Energy
If We Must Die
I Know My Soul
I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws
Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes A Poem for Himself in Which the Word Hate Is Replaced with The Word Forgive
A Study in Perspective
Separation
First Fig
To a Young Poet
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget
i'm just doing my job
Ode to a Dominican Breakfast
Excerpt from "Song of Solomon" 1
Excerpt from "Song of Solomon" 2
Things
We Are Not Responsible
Mercy, Mercy Me
Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop
Woo Woo Roll Deep
If You Forget Me
Sonnet 65
The Bronze Legacy
MSP to ____
Song 33
Famous
Gate A-4
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?
Katy
Twerk Villanelle
Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains
My Therapist Says Make Friends with your Monsters
Breakage
The Uses of Sorrow
Hoodie
Small Town
Heaven Be a Xanax
Certainty
Bad Habits
A Little Close Though, If You Can, for What Got Lost Here
Excerpt from "Nature Poem"
Annabel Lee
Gardening
day’s end
The Banana Room
Booker T. and W.E.B
Excerpt from "Citizen”
Ways to Disappear
Weather
Dear You,
Someday I'll Love Roger Reeves
Don't Nobody
Song
Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars]
Don't Go Into the Library
Mexican American Sonnet
Public Domain
Despedida Ardiente
Red
Excerpt from "On Spring Giddiness"
Depression is My Daughter and Now I Brush Her Hair
Gorda
Haiku [for you]
Personal Letter No. 3
This is Not a Small Voice
[It’s no use / Mother dear...]
First Will and Testament
Prayer for the Mutilated World
Buen Esqueleto
[I feel to porous to read, and too empty to write]
The Surface of the Water
My Gender Is
Selfish
Black History
I Think I'll Call it Morning
Object Permanence
Mi Problema
Sixty
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Speech: To be, or not to be, that is the question
Excerpt from "Me Against the World"
Preface
Excerpt from “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure”
The Poets Are Dying
Ugly
because there should be love
Giveaway
One of Us
Real Estate
Dancin' in the Rain
Invitation
Whatif
Riding in Cars With Black Girls or Pantoum for Police
April Is a Dog’s Dream
Buffalograss
i didn’t like you when i met you
little prayer
not an elegy for Mike Brown
rose
Biting Back
What Betsy Has to Say
It & Co.
Prayer
Credo
ABC for Refugees
I Am Alive in Los Angeles!
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
Sestina: Like
Shout Out
What Do I Care
Detox Passage
French Toast
Do not go gentle into that good night
The Sticking Point
Galileo
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath
And the News Reporter Says ‘Jesus is White’
On Evaluating Black Privilege
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door
Whenever you see a tree
Reasons for Staying
Lost
Love After Love
Be Nobody's Darling
Excerpt from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
How Poems Are Made / A Discredited View
Did I Miss Anything?
Exile
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Know Thy Lonely Girl
UNSTEADY
O Captain! My Captain!
We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
Life's Scars
Boatbuilding
Indigo On
Danse Russe
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
This Is Just To Say
Excerpt from "I Can't Breathe"
reading
The World is Too Much with Us
Music From Childhood
The Second Coming
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Earth Day
Speech Therapy
Ode to the Midwest
Homonyms
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Carrying Our Words