Anthology of Modern American Poetry[edited by Cary Nelson, published by Oxford UP, 2000]

Table of Contents

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) One's Self I Sing I Hear America Singing As Adam Early in the Morning For You O Democracy I Hear It Was Charged Against Me A Glimpse Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 258 (There's a certain Slant of light,) 280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain) 303 (The Soul selects her own Society) 341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes--) 465 (I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--) 508 (I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs) 520 (I started Early--Took my Dog--) 585 (I like to see it lap the Miles--) 601 (A still--Volcano--Life--) 613 (They shut me up in Prose--) 657 (I dwell in Possibility--) 712 (Because I could not stop for Death) 754 (My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--) 1072 (Title divine--is mine!) 1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--) 1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940) The Man With the Hoe

SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944) Cyanogen Seas Are Surging Tanka I Tanka III

EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950) Lucinda Matlock Petit, the Poet

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Seth Compton Cleanthus Trilling

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935) The House on the Hill Richard Cory The Clerks Miniver Cheevy The Mill Mr. Flood's Party

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938) O Black and Unknown Bards The Creation The White Witch

PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906) We Wear the Mask When Malindy Sings Sympathy The Haunted Oak

LOLA RIDGE (1871-1941) Stone Face

AMY LOWELL (1874-1925) September, 1918 The Letter Venus Transiens Madonna of the Evening Flowers The Weather-Cock Points South Opal Wakefulness Grotesque The Sisters New Heavens for Old

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946) Patriarchal Poetry

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) Mending Wall Home Burial After Apple-Picking The Wood-Pile The Road Not Taken

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Birches The Oven Bird An Old Man's Winter Night The Hill Wife Fire and Ice Good-By and Keep Cold The Need of Being Versed In Country Things Design The Witch of Conulls Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Gathering Leaves In a Disused Graveyard Nothing Gold Can Stay Desert Places Two Tramps In Mud Time Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same The Gift Outright

ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935) I Sit and Sew

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) Chicago Subway Muckers Child of the Romans Nigger Buttons Planked Whitefish Cool Tombs Grass Fog Elizabeth Upstead Man, The Man-Hunter

VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931) The Congo The Child-heart in the Mountains Celestial Flowers of Glacial Park The Virginians Are Coming Again

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955) Sea Surface Full of Clouds Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Tea at the Palaz of Hoon

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Floral Decoration for Bananas Anecdote of the Jar Disillusionment of Ten O'clock A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Snow Man The Emperor of Ice-Cream Peter Quince at the Clavier Sunday Morning The Death of a Soldier The Idea of Order at Key West Mozart, 1935 A Postcard from the Volcano Study of Two Pears Of Modern Poetry The Course of a Particular The Plain Sense of Things As You Leave the Room A Clear Day and No Memories Of Mere Being

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1958) The Black Finger Tenebris Fragment

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (1880-1966) The Heart of a Woman Common Dust

MINA LOY (1882-1966) Songs to Joannes

ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975) White Things Lady, Lady

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) The Young Housewife Portrait of a Lady Queen-Anne's-Lace The Widow's Lament in Springtime The Great Figure Spring and All To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow Young Sycamore

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The Descent of Winter This is Just to Say Proletarian Portrait The Yachts The Descent Asphodel, That Greeny Flower, Book I Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

EZRA POUND (1885-1972) A Pact In a Station of the Metro Portrait d'une Femme The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter from THE CANTOS: I (And then went down to the ship) IX (One year floods rose) XLV , (With Usura) LXXXI (Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom) CXVI (Came Neptunus) Notes for CXVII (I have tried to write paradise)

H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961) Oread Mid-day Sea Rose Garden The Helmsman Eurydice Helen from The Walls Do Not Fall 1 6

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962) Shine, Perishing Republic Hurt Hawks November Surf The Purse-Seine Fantasy Cassandra Vulture Birds and Fishes

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) Poetry An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

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The Fish Sojourn in the Whale A Grave Silence Peter Marriage An Octopus No Swan So Fine The Pangolin Bird-Witted The Paper Nautilus Spenser's Ireland

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Gerontion The Waste Land The Hollow Men Journey of the Magi from Four Quartets: Burnt Norton

JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974) Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Dead Boy

CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948) The Harlem Dancer To The White Fiends If We Must Die The Lynching The Tropics in New York The White City America Outcast Mulatto The Negro's Tragedy Look Within

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950) First Fig I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed Love is not blind Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree Well, I Have Lost You

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Love is not all Justice Denied in Massachusetts Say That We Saw Spain Die I Forgot for a Moment

ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (1892-1982) Ars Poetica The End of the World

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967) Unfortunate Coincidence Résumé One Perfect Rose

GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948) Everyday Alchemy With Child Up State----Depression Summer Mill Town Ode in Time of Crisis To the Negro People To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962) Thy fingers make early flowers of in Just- O sweet spontaneous Buffalo Bill's Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal "next to of course god america i my sweet old etcetera i sing of Olaf glad and big Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r anyone lived in a pretty how town

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) from Cane Reapers November Cotton Flower Portrait in Georgia Her Lips Are Copper Wire

CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976) from Testimony: The United States (1885-1915) : Negroes

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from Holocaust : Massacres

HERMAN SPECTOR (1895-1959) Wiseguy Type V.J. JEROME (1896-1965) A Negro Mother to Her Child

JOHN WHEELWRIGHT (1897-1940) Plantation Drouth

JOSEPH FREEMAN (1897-1965) (Our age has Caesars, though they wear silk hats)

LUCIA TRENT (1897-1977) Breed, Women, Breed Black Men Parade the Narrow Turrets

LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970) Medusa The Crows Women Cassandra The Dragonfly

HARRY CROSBY (1898-1929) Photoheliograph (For Lady A.) Pharmacie Du Soleil from Short Introduction to the Word Tattoo

HART CRANE (1899-1932) October-November Black Tambourine Chaplinesque Episode of Hands Porphyro in Akron Voyages I from The Bridge Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge Ave Maria The River Cape Hatteras Atlantis The Mango Tree

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ALLEN TATE (1899-1979) Ode to the Confederate Dead

MELVIN B. TOLSON (1900?-1966) Dark Symphony Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989) Scotty Has His Say Memphis Blues Slim in Atlanta Slim in Hell Rent Day Blues Old Lem Sharecroppers Southern Cop Choices

LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON (1901-1991) Helen's Burning The Wind Suffers Elegy in a Spider's Web

ANGEL ISLAND: POEMS BY CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, 1910-1940 (As a traveller in wind and dust) (Instead of remaining a citizen of China) (I am distressed that we Chinese are detained) (America has power, but not justice) (The low builing with three beams) (The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants) (The silvery red shirt is half covered with dust) Poem by One Named Xu, From Xiangshan, Consoling Himself Leaving behind my writing brush

KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961) Dear Beatrice Fairfax $2.50 Dirge Denouement

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) Negro

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Weary Blues The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.) To the Dark Mercedes of "El Palacio de Amor" Mulatto Justice Fire White Shadows Christ in Alabama Three Songs About Lynching: Silhouette Flight Lynching Song Come to the Waldorf-Astoria Goodbye Christ Ballad of Roosevelt Park Bench Let America Be America Again Letter from Spain The Bitter River Ku Klux Shakespeare in Harlem Madam and the Phone Bill Ballad of the Landlord Harlem Late Corner Dinner Guest: Me The Backlash Blues Bombings in Dixie ARNA BONTEMPS (1902-1973) A Black Man Talks of Reaping Southern Mansion

GWENDOLYN BENNETT (1902-1981) To a Dark Girl Heritage

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946) Incident For a Lady I Know Yet Do I Marvel Near White Tableau Heritage From the Dark Tower

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LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970) Paen to Place

KAY BOYLE (1903-1993) A Communication to Nancy Cunard

CARL RAKOSI (b. 1903) The Menage

AQUA LALUAH (1904-1950) Lullaby

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978) To My Wash Stand Mantis A Song for the Year's End Because Tarzan Triumphs (from Light) Non Ti Fidar JOHN BEECHER (1904-1980) Report to the Stockholders Beaufort Tides Engagement at the Salt Fork

KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982) The Love Poems of Marichiko

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) Bearded Oaks Evening Hawk Heart of Autumn

STANLEY KUNITZ (b. 1905) The Wellfleet Whale The Snakes of September

JOSEPH KALAR (1906-1972) Papermill

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960) We of the Streets

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) Cuttings Cuttings (later) Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze from The Lost Son:

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The Flight I Knew a Woman North American Sequence: The Longing Meditation at Oyster River Journey to the Interior The Long Waters The Far Field The Rose

GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984) Image of the Engine In Alsace Exodus

EDWIN ROLFE (1909-1954) Asbestos Season of Death First Love Elegia After Tu Fu (A.D. 713-770) Now the Fog A Letter to the Denouncers Are You Now or Have You Ever Been A Poem to Delight My Friends Who Laugh at Science-Fiction In Praise Of Little Ballad for Americans----1954

CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970) Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele Cole's Island

SOL FUNAROFF (1911-1942) The Bull in the Olive Field The Man At The Factory Gate Goin Mah Own Road

ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979) The Fish The Man-Moth At the Fishhouses Filling Station Questions of Travel The Armadillo In the Waiting Room Pink Dog

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Crusoe in England One Art

WILLIAM EVERSON (1912-1994) A Canticle to the Waterbirds

TILLIE LERNER OLSEN (b. 1912) I Want You Women Up North To Know

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980) The Book of the Dead The Minotaur (To be a Jew in the Twentieth century) Rite The Poem As Mask Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars) Poem White Page/ White Page Poem

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980) Middle Passage Runagate Runagate A Letter from Phillis Wheatley Night, Death, Mississippi Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves No. 1 (from Elegies for Paradise Valley) The Dogwood Trees O Daedalus, Fly Away Home

CHARLES HENRI FORD (b. 1913) Plaint Flag of Ecstasy

WELDON KEES (1914-1955) Travels in North America

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner A Front Losses Second Air Force Protocols

JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP HAIKU, 1942-1944 Shiho Okamoto (Being arrested) Sadayo Taniguchi (Hand-cuffed and taken away) Kyotaro Komuro (Lingering summer heat)

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Komuro (Passed guard tower) Okamoto (In the shade of summer sun) Shonan Suzuki (Withered grass on ground) Hakuro Wada (Young grass red and shriveled) Hyakuissei Okamoto (Dandelion has bloomed) Shizuku Uyemaruko (On certain days) Wada (Released seagull) Ryokuin Matsui (Sprinkling water outside) Komuro (Want to be with children) Wada (Even the croaking of frogs) Hangetsu Tsunekawa (Sentry at main gate) Shokoshi Saga (Thin shadow of tule reed) Tokuji Hirai (Looking at summer moon) Suzuki (Moon shadows on internment camp) Hirai (Early moon has set) Suiko Matsushita (Rain shower from mountain) Neiji Ozawa (Desert rain falling) Senbinshi Takaoka (Frosty morning) Jyosha Yamada (Black clouds instantly shroud) Takaoka (Winter wind) Hekisamei Matsuda (Doll without a head) Sei Sagara (Suddenly awakened) Hyakuissei Okamoto (Jeep patrolling slowly) Shizuku Uyemaruko (Grieving within) Okamoto (In the sage brush) Matsushita (Oh shells----)

JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972) from The Dream Songs 1 Huffy Henry 4 Filling her compact & delicious body 5 Henry sats 14 Life, friends 22 Of 1826 29 There sat down, once 40 I'm scared a lonely 45 He stared at ruin 46 I am, outside 55 Peter's not friendly. 76 Henry's Confession 382 At Henry's bier 384 The marker slants

WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993) Traveling Through the Dark At the Bomb Testing Site

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The Indian Cave Jerry Ramsey Found

DUDLEY RANDALL (b. 1914) Ballad of Birmingham

JOY DAVIDMAN (1915-1960) This Woman For the Nazis

MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998) For My People

RUTH STONE (b. 1915) In an Iridescent Time I Have Three Daughters Pokeberries American Milk From the Arboretum Drought in the Lower Fields Some Things You'll Need to Know/ Before You Join the Union

THOMAS MCGRATH (1916-1990) Deep South Crash Report First Book of Genesis According to the Diplomats Ars Poetica: Or: Who Lives in the Ivory Tower? A Little Song About Charity Against the False Magicians After the Beat Generation Ode for the American Dead in Asia

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977) Inauguration Day: January 1953 A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich Commander Lowell "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" Man and Wife Memories of West Street and Lepke Skunk Hour For the Union Dead The Mouth of the Hudson July in Washington The March I The March II Central Park

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GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917) a song in the front yard of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery Gay Chaps at the Bar We Real Cool The Ballad of Rudolph Reed The Blackstone Rangers To the Diaspora To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals The Boy Died in My Alley Young Afrikans

WILLIAM BRONK (1918-1999) At Tikal The Mayan Glyphs Unread I Thought It Was Harry Where It Ends

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988) Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow My Mother Would Be a Falconress The Torso (Passages 18) Up Rising (Passages 25)

RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921) A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Advice to a Prophet

MONA VAN DUYN (b. 1921) Toward a Definition of Marriage

JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997) The Sheep Child Falling

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997) The Ache of Marriage Olga Poems What Were They Like? Life at War

ANTHONY HECHT (b. 1923) A Hill "More Light! More Light!"

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BOB KAUFMAN (1925-1986) The Biggest Fisherman Crootey Songo No More Jazz at Alcatraz

MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925) Voices from Kansas Saga

PAUL BLACKBURN (1926-1971) At the Well

FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem (The eager note on my door) A Step Away From Them The Day Lady Died Why I Am Not a Painter A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware At The Museum of Modern Art Thinking of James Dean

JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) An Urban Convalescence The Broken Home Willowware Cup Lost in Translation

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) Love Poem on Theme By Whitman Howl Wichita Vortex Sutra Father Death-Blues

ROBERT CREELEY (b. 1926) After Lorca I Know a Man The Flower For Love America Age

ROBERT BLY (b. 1926) Looking At New-Fallen Snow From a Train Counting Small-Boned Bodies The Dead Seal Near McClure's Beach

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A.R. AMMONS (b. 1926) Corsons Inlet Gravelly Run Coon Song

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) Saint Judas Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota A Blessing A Centenary Ode: Inscribed to Little Crow, Leader of the Sioux Rebellion in Minnesota, 1862

JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) "They Dream Only of America" Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Mixed Feelings Hop o' My Thumb Street Musicians Syringa Daffy Duck in Hollywood Paradoxes and Oxymorons

GALWAY KINNELL (b. 1927) The Porcupine The Bear

W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927) The Drunk in the Furnace It Is March Caesar The Room December Among the Vanished For the Anniversary of My Death When The War Is Over The Asians Dying For A Coming Extinction Looking For Mushrooms At Sunrise The Gardens of Zuni Beginning The Horse Sun And Rain Berryman

ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)

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Her Kind The Truth The Dead Know And One for My Dame The Room of My Life

PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928) The Horse Animals Are Passing From Our Lives Belle Isle, 1949 They Feed They Lion Francisco, I'll Bring You Red Carnations Fear and Fame On the Meeting of García Lorca and Hart Crane

ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Shooting Script Trying to Talk With a Man Diving into the Wreck Twenty-One Love Poems Power from An Atlas of the Difficult World XIII. (Dedications ) I know you are reading this poem

GARY SYNDER (b. 1930) Riprap Beneath My Hand and Eye the Distant Hills. Your Body I Went Into the Maverick Bar Straight-Creek----Great Burn Axe Handles

GREGORY CORSO (b. 1930) Marriage Bomb

ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1991) Haiku Hard Rock Returns to Prison From the Hospital For the Criminal Insane The Idea of Ancestry A Poem For Myself For Malcolm, A Year After Television Speaks For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963) Black Rook in Rainy Weather

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The Colossus Tulips The Bee Meeting The Arrival of the Bee Box Stings The Swarm Wintering Daddy Ariel Lady Lazarus

HENRY DUMAS (1934-1968) Son of Msippi Kef 24 Kef 16 Fish Knees of a Natural Man Low Down Dog Blues Black Star Line

AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934) SOS Black Art When We'll Worship Jesus

N. SCOTT MOMADAY (b. 1934) Plainview: 3 Buteo Regalis Crows in a Winter Composition Carriers of the Dream Wheel Rings of Bone The Stalker Purple (from The Colors of Night) The Burning December 29, 1980 The Shield That Came Back

MARK STRAND (b. 1934) Where Are the Waters of Childhood?

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) Coal Sisters in Arms Outlines Call

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CHARLES WRIGHT (b. 1935) Homage to Paul Cézanne

MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water Black Snake This Time

JAYNE CORTEZ (b. 1936) I Am New York City Do You Think

LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936) I Am Accused of Tending To the Past at the cemetery, / walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 Reply the message of crazy horse poem to my uterus to my last period brothers

SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937) The Falls Fight Hope Atherton's Wanderings

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938) Song: I Want a Witness Blue Ruth: America Brother John American History We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper Reuben, Reuben Deathwatch Dear John, Dear Coltrane

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938) I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra

LAWSON FUSAO INADA (b. 1938) from Listening Images

ROBERT PINSKY (b. 1940) The Unseen Shirt WELTON SMITH (b. 1940) Malcolm

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JUDY GRAHN (b. 1940) I have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe's Body Vietnamese Woman Speaking to an American Soldier Carol Plainsong The Woman Whose Head is On Fire

ROBERT HASS (b. 1941) Rusia en 1931 A Story About the Body

SHARON OLDS (b. 1942) Ideographs Photograph of the Girl Things That Are Worse Than Death The Waiting His Father's Cadaver

LOUISE GLÜCK (b. 1943) Penelope's Song Quiet Evening Parable of the King Parable of the Hostages Circe's Power Circe's Grief Reunion

MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943) Song of the Round Man All those words I Have Answers to All of Your Questions Fifth Prose Autobiography

PAUL VIOLI (b. 1944) Index

CAROLYN M. RODGERS (b. 1945) how i got ovah and when the revolution came mama's God

RON SILLIMAN (b. 1946) from Ketjak from Sunset Debris The Chinese Notebook

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from Toner

ADRIAN C. LOUIS (b. 1946) Dust World Wakinyan Without Words Coyote Night How Verdell and Dr. Zhivago Disassembled the Soviet Union Wanbli Gleska Win Looking for Judas A Colossal American Copulation Petroglyphs of Serena

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947) Tu Do Street Prisoners Communique The Dog Act The Nazi Doll Fog Galleon Work AI (b. 1947) Twenty-Year Marriage The German Army, Russia, 1943 The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer The Priest's Confession

WENDY ROSE (b. 1948) Truganinny

C.D. WRIGHT (b. 1949) Obedience of the Corpse (OVER EVERYTHING) Song of the Gourd

JESSICA HAGEDORN (b. 1949) Ming the Merciless

RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950) In Viewpoint: Poem for 14 Catfish and The Town of Tama, Iowa It is the Fish-faced Boy Who Struggles

CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950) The Colonel

GARRETT KAORU HONGO (b. 1951)

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Ancestral Graves, Kahuku

RITA DOVE (b. 1952) Parsley

JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (b. 1952) Mi Tio Baca El Poeta De Socorro

ANITA ENDREZZE (b. 1952) Birdwatching at Fan Lake Return of the Wolves

ANA CASTILLO (b. 1953) Seduced by Natassja Kinski

MARK DOTY (b. 1953) Homo Will Not Inherit

HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953) from Trimmings From S*PeRM**K*T

LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954) Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Dear John Wayne

SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) Little Clown, My Heart

THYLIAS MOSS (b. 1954) Fullness There Will Be Animals Ambition Crystals

PATRICIA SMITH (b. 1955) What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't) Blond White Women Skinhead

MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955) How I Got That Name

SESSHU FOSTER (b. 1957) We're caffeinated by rain inside concrete underpasses You'll be fucked up

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Look and look again, will he glance up all of a sudden I'm always grateful no one hears this terrible racket The Japanese man would not appear riding a horse Life Magazine , December, 1941 I try to pee but I can't

MARTÍN ESPADA (b. 1957) Bully The Lover of a Subversive Is Also A Subversive Federico's Ghost The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp Fidel In Ohio The Skull Beneath the Skin of the Mango Imagine The Angels Of Bread

SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) Indian Boy Love Song (#2) No. 9 (from The Native American Broadcasting System) Evolution Scalp Dance by Spokane Indians How to Write the Great American Indian Novel Tourists

GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS

EDWIN MARKHAM The Man With the Hoe

VACHEL LINDSAY The Virginians Are Coming Again

LANSTON HUGHES Christ in Alabama Come to the Waldorf-Astoria

GWENDOLYN BROOKS We Real Cool

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