Black Poetry


The Collected Poems
The Tradition
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
Finna
Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Call Us What We Carry
Love Poems
Black Girl, Call Home
Counting Descent
Magical Negro
Maud Martha
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
The Complete Collected Poems
Julia de Burgos
Dícenme que mi abuelo fue el esclavo por quien el amo dio trienta monedas. Ay, ay, ay, que el esclavo fue mi abuelo es mi pena, es mi pena. Si hubiera sido el amo, sería mi vergüenza; que en los hombres, igual que en las naciones, si el ser el siervo es no tener derechos, el ser el amo es no tener conciencia. They tell me that my grandfather was the slave for whom the master paid thirty coins. Ay, ay, ay, that the slave was my grandfather is my sadness, is my sadness. If he had been the master ...more
Julia de Burgos

Abhijit Naskar
You know what Black means? BLACK means Brave, BLACK means Leaderly, BLACK means Adventurous, BLACK means Considerate, BLACK means Kind.
Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

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