Poets

Long Exposure

Pattern

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

Afghan Funeral in Paris

Excerpt from "America"

First Snow

ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine

Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Arab Girl

Mosab

my grandfather and home

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

A Daughter Named After Nina

Afro-Latina

Hearing That  Joe Arroyo Song at Ibiza Nightclub, 2008

Ode to the Head Nod

When I Am Old

Intimate Set

Bilingual

String Theory Relationships

Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico

The Star Spanglish Banner

Against the Parts of Me That Think They Know Anything

Do You Speak Persian?

Orchids are Sprouting From the Floorboards

Poem to a Conqueror

A Blank White Page

In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles

LA Prayer

Ode to My Shoes

Prayer

Praise Song for the Day

beholder

Truth is I would like to escape myself

Stationery

Upon a Day, Came Sorrow in to Me

Playgrounds

Fatima :: Solstice

Honeymoon

body without the "d"

Teaching My Mother English over the Phone

The Diameter Of The Bomb

When I Grow Up

Alone

Caged Bird

Come, and Be my Baby

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Phenomenal Woman

Still I Rise

The Mothering Blackness

Mr. Nobody

Twelfth Song of Thunder [Navajo Tradition]

Diary Entry #4: Ghazal

To Live in the Borderlands

Clatter

Meditation on a Grapefruit

gathering words

Break Free

Sunflakes

Ghareeb

If They Come For Us

Old Country (Edited)

Pluto Shits on the Universe

This Room

Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing

Funeral Blues

The Average

A Message from the Guardians of the Cedars

Everything will hurt for a while

Interview with My Father: Names

Men Compliment Me

Cento Between the Ending and the End

Excerpt from "[BLACK FEELING]"

Love Poem

Meditations in an Emergency

The Cure for What Ails You

That Girl

I Am Offering This Poem

Who Understands Me but Me

Caterpillars

To You from Me

Holiday Wish

In Dis Newfangled Oz

Excerpt from "Giovanni's Room"

Excerpt from "The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook"

As Agony. As Now.

As a Possible Lover

Excerpt from Black Art

Ka 'Ba

my dad asks "how come black folk can't just write about flowers?"

Epistemology

[An ancient pond!]

Heat waves shimmering

Ode to Fat

The Thing Is

The World Has Need of You

Going Down Hill on a Bicycle

Little Stones at My Window

Excerpt from "Blessings"

Owed to Pedagogy

Owed to the Durag

r u dense ? {I'm the Baddest Kiss}

Dream Song 14

failed avoidance of 'the body' in a poem

Excerpt from "The Fish"

One Art

Vivisection

Chemotherapy

About Standing (in Kinship)

The Ecchoing Green

Como Tú / Like You / Like Me

Mother Country

My Father in English

The Pedestrian

Atlantis--A Lost Sonnet

A Heart Can Be Broken Only Once, Like A Window

Ars Poetica

Lies I Tell

Mexcian Bingo (Edited)

Traces of my Father

The World Is in Pencil

A Boy Can Wear a Dress

Future Legend

School—12:15

La Tuvería or An Earring's Lament

Your Catfish Friend

Oh Wonder

How to Not Be a Perfectionist

No Coward Soul Is Mine

a song in the front yard

Boy Breaking Glass

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell

Paul Robeson

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward

The Boy Died in My Alley

To the Young Who Want to Die

truth

We Real Cool

How to Tell My Dad that I Kissed a Man

As a Human Being

Duplex ["A poem is a gesture"]

Duplex ["I begin with love"]

Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry

The Microscopes

Activism, Everywhere

Coco(nut)

working title

And Later . . .

Bluebird (Edited)

Excerpt from "Parable of the Sower"

She Walks in Beauty

Ghosts

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.

Love Song for Love Songs

My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow

ONE GEOGRAPHY OF BELONGING

Placa/Rollcall

Jabberwocky

The Crocodile

Excerpt from “The Glass Essay”

On Hedonism

Painted

Triple Sonnet for My Mother’s Full-On Soap Opera Fantasy

Lion

My Father. A Tree.

Excerpt from "Obit" [Blame]

Excerpt from "Obit" [Empathy]

Untitled

Tea

My Mother upon Hearing News of Her Mother’s Death

Zombie Apocalypse Now: Documentary

english

i love you to the moon &

Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert

Summer

Bluet

How I Got That Name

Excerpt from "The Yellow House"

Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness

Choi Jeong Min

Frame

Hangul Abecedarian

I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame

Turing Test

A Self-Portrait

The Drinking Fountain

The Way Words Echo in Our Heads

Excerpt from "The First Black Bachelorette"

Mixed Bitch

My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work

blessing the boats

homage to my hips

[ if mama / could see ]

my dream about being white

poem in praise of menstruation

why some people be mad at me sometimes

wishes for sons

won’t you celebrate with me

Excerpt from "Between the World and Me" 1

Excerpt from "Between The World And Me" 2

Lit

Myself with Cats

Oil & Steel

Bedtime Story

Dear Mama (4)

Wanda Why Aren't You Dead

Introduction to Poetry

On Turning Ten

A Controlled Substance

What's Not to Love

‘Lights Out!’

A Body’s Universe of Big Bangs

The Orange

NUMBERS

In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes

I don't know what I want to say

Hey, I’m gay

For a Poet

Fruit Of The Flower

[2 little whos]

anyone lived in a pretty how town

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

i thank You God for most this amazing

[love is more thicker than forget]

maggie and milly and molly and may

the great advantage of being alive

Black Stars

Nationhood

Where Did You Get That Pick-Up Line? You Should Drop it Back Off

The Robots are Coming

Golden Shovel Sheltered-In-Place with Animal Crossing Log-Out Text and OCD

The Recital

Flu Season

Not This (Edited)

SONNET (stopped)

Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home

Learning Whitney

YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!

I Want to Burn the Frat House of America to the Ground

Poem That Gives No Fucks

Joy #1

Bent to the Earth

Shifting the Sun

Why I don't write about George Floyd

City Lake

Profile

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation

From the Desire Field

I Watch Her Eat the Apple

My Brother at 3 A.M.

They Don't Love You Like I Love You

Why I Hate Raisins

A Bird, came down the Walk

‘Faith’ is a fine invention

Forever – is composed of Nows —

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

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!

Excerpt from “From the Lives of My Friends”

Heartbeats

Excerpt From “Season of Beginning and End"

Why Bother?

Happenstance

Heart to Heart

Incantation of the First Order

Party Dress for a First Born

Excerpt from "They are not long"

The Song of the Smoke

The Debt

We Wear the Mask

Characteristics of Life

Trophic Cascade

Sweetness

Magnitude and Bond

Poet Dances with Inanimate Object

The Racist Bone

Excerpt from "Faceless"

how to say

MEN FOLLOW ME

Ode to Gossips

ODE TO MY HOME GIRLS

Self-Portrait With No Flag

Self-Portrait without Stitches

yasmeen

Excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

The Song of the Jellicles

Fuck / Shakespeare

The Listening World

Kinship

Turtle Came to See Me

Advice to Myself

Daveen

Excerpt from “Somewhere Real”

Mind Over Matter

The Best Part Of Anything

Bilingual / Bilingüe

Weighing In

A Guide to Reading Trans Literature

Autopainophile

Personal Statement

The ABG (Able-Bodied Gaze)

Rainmaker: You Could Be the Water

I Turn the Volume Down Because Beyonce Says Fuck in the 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

Punctuation

Self-Portrait as Slinky

The Sacrifice

Yr Not Exotic, But Once Ya Wanted to Be

Said the Gun to the Woman On Her Way to Planned Parenthood

Letter

Thank God I Can't Drive

Excerpt From “I Am Waiting”

Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]

Poems With Disabilities

Something Told the Wild Geese

Bilingual Blues

Little Talk

I Woke Up

Fireflies

At Twenty-Eight

The Boatman

fat girl Confuses Food & Therapy, Again

Confronting Hatred

Mercy

Urban Girl Writes another Poem About Her Dead Father

Acquainted with the Night

Design

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Road Not Taken

Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep

Singing-Time

Little Weapon

Potato Chips

Cages

Spanish Midterm

Stampede

A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood

A Small Needful Fact

Love, I'm Done with You

Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM

Sorrow Is Not My Name

Excerpt from "Hunger"

The Sleeping Pig

Excerpt from “QUEER YOUTH ARE FIVE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE BY SUICIDE”

In Dispraise Of Poetry

Michiko Dead

The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

A Supermarket in California

Excerpt from "America"

A Drunken Phone Call

Allowables

Choices

I Take Master Card (Charge Your Love To Me)

Kidnap Poem

Knoxville, Tennessee

Legacies

My First Memory (of Librarians)

Nikki-Rosa

The Song of the Feet

Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador

Chicken-Hearted

Mock Orange

Snowdrops

The Red Poppy

Failed Essay on Privilege

Birthright

Some of My Worst Wounds

The Hill We Climb

My Gender Is

Gallery Songs

That's So Lame

By Myself

Harriet Tubman

In the Land of Words

The Poetry of Bad Weather

Let Birds

The Resurrection

Cat Scat

Poems

Stomp

The Last Word

Three Ponies

My Brilliant Image

Reckless Sonnet No. 8

The Dream of Shoji

Excerpt from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley"

How a Bullet Works

Clarinet

Love Letter

Others Are Us

Eagle Poem

Excerpt from "She Had Some Horses"

Fear Poem, Or I Give You Back

For Earth's Grandsons

Grace

Praise the Rain

Remember

Songs for the People

The Slave Auction

Makin' Jump Shots

Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45

The Friend

Mosquitoes

Those Winter Sundays

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

George Floyd

Invictus

a safe space

America We Talk About It

Everyday We Get More Illegal

Five Directions to My House

Jackrabbits, Green Onions, & Witches Stew

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly

Social Distancing

My California

Nothing

Nerve

Fuck Your Lecture on Craft

The Promise

You and I

2pac Couplets

Small Poems for Big

Cardi B Tells Me About Myself

Taking One for the Team

[Death is nothing at all]

Second Period

Appalachian Elegy (8.)

[Untitled]

Langston

Subways Are People

Excerpt from “Did It Ever Occur to You That Maybe You’re Falling in Love?”

Before the Beauty .Or. How Could U Forget?

Coconut

SELMA, 1965

April Rain Song

Dreams

Dream Variations

Excerpt from "Let America be America Again"

Grandpa's Stories

Harlem

Harlem Sweeties

If-ing

Impasse

Mother to Son

My People

Poem

Suicide's Note

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"

Some People Love War Like a House

Excerpt from "Bigger Than Life"

Discourse

Assimilation Bouquet

For My Daughter

Opportunity

RuPaul Gives The Black Girl Miracle Her First Lesson in Realness

I want

anthem for my belly after eating too much

A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair

Against Mastery

Dreams of My Father

Selah

Ode to my Uni-brow

Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out

Mercy

My Little Dreams

Wishes

Your World

Art vs. Trade

Sleep

TRANS IS AGAINST NOSTALGIA

For Donald Lewis Jones

Blue Prelude

A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades

Excerpt from “Poem about My Rights”

Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.

On Time Tanka

These Poems

Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot

Besaydoo

We Lived Happily During the War

Elegy for Bruce Lee

I stand at the front of the room and speak

micro

pansexual

Money Matters

Unreliable

Break up with your gender, I’m bored

Pre-Top Surgery Pantoum

Spondylolisthesis, or why I eat Taco Bell

What It Do Done Red

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be

Sanctuary

In Vain

The bottoms of my shoes

Diaspora #1

Monologue for an Onion

Do not trust the eraser

Naming Myself

Trust the Hours (Wait)

If--

Bad Mood, Baker Beach

A Poem for 3rd World Brothers

Excerpt From Belly Song

For Malcolm, A Year After

Haiku (1)

Title Not Given

To Stammering

First Grade

Beauty is My Revenge

Anodyne

Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel

Facing It

You and I Are Dissapearing

Told You So

Graduation

Excerpt from "Momma"

Insha'Allah

Small Kindnesses

Confession

The Start Of The Free And Natural

my graduation speech

Spanglish

Excerpt from "Heavy: An American Memoir"

A Story

From Blossoms

I Ask My Mother to Sing

Immigrant Blues

One Heart

Out of Hiding

The Gift

This Room and Everything In It

The First Leaf

Spratchet

According to the Gospel of Yes

Everything Is a Poem

Places and Names: A Traveler's Guide

Summer

Endings

A New National Athem

Before

How to Triumph Like a Girl

Instructions on Not Giving Up

LOVE POEM WITH APOLOGIES FOR MY APPEARANCE

The Conditional

The Raincoat

I Used to Pray

The Lovers

War

The Builders

I Am Different

Obligations 2

Resolution (6)

A Daily Prayer

Zapotec Crossers (or, Haiku I Write Post-PTSD Nightmares)

Celebration

Gacela of the Remembrance of Love

A Litany for Survival

Coping

Excerpt from "Power"

Now

Who Said It Was Simple

Excerpt From “Le Desert”

Citizenship

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

Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps

Some Girls

Where I'm From

Snow

Grand Slam

Philosophy of Life

Everyone I Love is Drafting Their Own Eulogies

T.S.A.

Vocative

All I Can Tell You

September Elegies

Excerpt from "Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela"

Momma Said [ ] at the Kitchen Table

Occidentalism

Here's an Ocean Tale

Like a Freedom Too Strange to be Conquered

pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag

Rememory

The Big Water

out south

praise song

36 TEXT MESSAGES, 16 MISSED CALLS

Scientifically Speaking

Sea-Fever

Lament for the Living

Athazagoraphobia (Fear of Being Ignored)

Man Matching Description

Pomegranate Means Grenade

There Are Birds Here

Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi

The Sentence

Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell

Excerpt From “Keeper of the Light”

The Quiet World

Wolf Energy

America

December, 1919

Enslaved

If We Must Die

I Know My Soul

The White City

Remember the Boys

I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws

Antagonish [I met a man who wasn't there]

In Defense of Hella

Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes A Poem for Himself in Which the Word Hate Is Replaced with The Word Forgive

I Don't Want a Trans President

How To Eat a Poem

Weather

A Study in Perspective

Presidents

Separation

Afternoon on a Hill

City Trees

First Fig

I, being born a woman, and distressed

To a Young Poet

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

Excerpt From “Paradise Lost” Book IV

Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent

Advice from La Llorona

Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget

A Simile

District Two

i'm just doing my job

Ode to a Dominican Breakfast

Collapse

I Left My Head

In the Blood

The Only Me

Words Free as Confetti

Excerpt from "Song of Solomon" 1

Excerpt from "Song of Solomon" 2

Origin of Tears

Things

Elliptical

We Are Not Responsible

Mercy, Mercy Me

Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop

Ghazal for Becoming Your Own Country

Gravity

Woo Woo Roll Deep

Song of the Open Road

Arachis Hypogaea

The Song Is You

Don't Go Far Off

If You Forget Me

Sonnet 65

The Book of Questions, III

This is the Nonsense of Love

Sunset

The Bronze Legacy

Baked Goods

Mosquitoes

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance

Buffet Etiquette

MSP to ____

Staying Quiet

Dang You Then a Dang

Mixed Media

They Were My People

Risk

Song 33

We Have Been Friends Together

Changed

Excerpt from "Every day as a wide field, every page"

Famous

Gate A-4

How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?

Kindness

The Art of Disappearing

Valentine for Ernest Mann

Katy

Black Stars

Twerk Villanelle

Ode of Girls' Things

Ars Poetica

(citizen) (illegal)

Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains

Interview

My Therapist Says Make Friends with your Monsters

poem where no one is deported

Breakage

Desire

Praying

The Uses of Sorrow

Wild Geese

Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz

Letter to a Cockroach, Now Dead and Mixed Into a Bar of Chocolate

Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America

Hoodie

How lucky we are that you can’t sell a poem

Game Prayer

Small Town

Arms and the Boy

Wish

Recurrence

Heaven Be a Xanax

On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial

Certainty

At This Very Moment

Bad Habits

The Poetry Cops

A Little Close Though, If You Can, for What Got Lost Here

Almosts

Excerpt from "Nature Poem"

El Spanglish National Athem

Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2)

The Kiss

My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task

Things We Carry on the Sea

Heavy Women

Mirror

The Applicant

Annabel Lee

The Abuelita Poem

Gardening

Long Shot

Bleezer’s Ice Cream

I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies

Noisy Noisy

Blue Earth Banks

ode to new money

day’s end

The Banana Room

Booker T. and W.E.B

Excerpt From “Citizen: An American Lyric” [The new therapist specializes]

Excerpt from "Citizen” [Because white men can't]

Ways to Disappear

Weather

Dear You,

Make No Apologies For Yourself

Someday I'll Love Roger Reeves

Don't Nobody

A Mark of Resistance

Song

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

A Memory

Archaic Torso of Apollo

Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars]

A House Called Tomorrow

Don't Go Into the Library

When Giving Is All We Have

Excerpt From “A Roman Temple”

They

Mexican American Sonnet

21

Words

In a Dark Time

Fat Girl Triumphal Ode

There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier

Public Domain

Despedida Ardiente

Funny Bone (Humerus)

Somewhere or Other

Who Has Seen the Wind?

Red

Excerpt from "On Spring Giddiness"

The Breeze at Dawn

The Elephant in the Room

Turtle

Depression is My Daughter and Now I Brush Her Hair

Mi Casa

Gorda

Haiku [for you]

Personal Letter No. 3

This is Not a Small Voice

Mi poema a la comida mas corto

Fog

Good Night

Humdrum

Fragment 58

Fragment 94

[It’s no use / Mother dear...]

My Locker

Bildungsroman

First Will and Testament

Miss Piggy

Prayer for the Mutilated World

Buen Esqueleto

I Know I'm Going Somewhere

[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

All the Time Blues Villanelle

Mi Problema

Excerpt from “frank: sonnets” [Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me]

Sixty

Excerpt from "Small Wire"

The Truth the Dead Know

Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds...

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Speech: To be, or not to be, that is the question

Culture

Excerpt from "Me Against the World"

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Preface

Excerpt from “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure”

Reaching Guantánamo

Social Skills Training

The Poets Are Dying

“Mutability” or “The Flower That Smiles To-day”

In Love and In War

Ugly

What They Did Yesterday Afternoon

because there should be love

ode to my blackness

Workshop

Giveaway

Morning Warming

One of Us

[My pills doze until I wake them]

[Sometimes I don’t know if I’m having a feeling]

Real Estate

Colors

Dancin' in the Rain

Invitation

Masks

Whatif

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Who Will Tell Them

Riding in Cars With Black Girls or Pantoum for Police

April Is a Dog’s Dream

recipe for understanding

Buffalograss

Virginity

alternate names for black boys

Black Boy Be

Excerpt from “summer, somewhere”

i didn’t like you when i met you

little prayer

not an elegy for Mike Brown

notes

rose

what was said at the bus stop

Good Bones

5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Biting Back

Excerpt from Motown Crown

Hip-Hop Ghazal

What Betsy Has to Say

What to Tweak

Declaration

It & Co.

Prayer

Soulwork

Credo

Forecast

ABC for Refugees

I Am Alive in Los Angeles!

Bitch Instinct

All the Dead Boys Look Like Me

[Somewhere In Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed

At the Student Poetry Reading

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

Walking West

Sestina: Like

Bed in Summer

My Shadow

The Land of Nod

The Swing

Morning Routine

Eating Poetry

A smile always heals

Filter

Blink Your Eyes

Shout Out

Question

Room with a View

The End and the Beginning

Three Words Most Strange

The Last Wolf

I am not yours

The Crystal Gazer

What Do I Care

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Detox Passage

French Toast

Do not go gentle into that good night

The Blacker the Berry

Hunger is a Bride

The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself

The Sticking Point

You're the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With

The Storyteller Gets Her name

Behold! A Spectacle

Bioluminescence

Galileo

Today I’ll Sit Still

Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath

Self-lit

Look at Us

How Bright It Is

And the News Reporter Says ‘Jesus is White’

On Evaluating Black Privilege

Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door

Undone

Whenever you see a tree

Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam

Wiri Wiri

THE AUDRE LORDE QUESTIONNAIRE TO ONESELF

You, If No One Else

If I Were In Charge Of The World

Learning

Mother Doesn't Want a Dog

Since Hanna Moved Away

Aubade with Burning City

Essay on Craft

Excerpt from “Beautiful Short Loser”

Reasons for Staying

Toy Boat

Lost

Love After Love

brief lesson on marriage

Shorter American Memory of the Declaration of Independence

Be Nobody's Darling

Excerpt from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"

How Poems Are Made / A Discredited View

This Body

SPRING BREAK

Did I Miss Anything?

You Go to My Head

After You Left

Dreaming Winter

Dogs and Weather

Exile

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Know Thy Lonely Girl

UNSTEADY

O Captain! My Captain!

O me! O life!

Poets to Come

We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd

Life's Scars

Requiescat

Boatbuilding

Indigo On

Danse Russe

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Pastoral

The Red Wheelbarrow

This Is Just To Say

To a Poor Old Woman

Excerpt from "I Can't Breathe"

I wish in the city of your heart

And I wonder where you are

Being

Joy #1

no more grandma poems

The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

beverly, huh.

football dreams

on paper

reading

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The World is Too Much with Us

Pig

Excerpt from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley"

Music From Childhood

No Second Troy

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

The Song of Wandering Aengus

Earth Day

Five Tips On Writing A Poem

Small Craft Talk Warning

Speech Therapy

Ode to the Midwest

Homonyms

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

Citizenship

The Pier of La Herradura

Carrying Our Words