Twenty-five poems to read again and again

1. Dark August, by Derek Walcott
2. Stars of Stone, by Rustum Kozain
3. You, Therefore, by Reginald Shepherd
4. Roses and Revolutions, by Dudley Randall
5. A Girl, by Ezra Pound
6. Confession, by Geoffrey Philp
7. Feeling Fucked Up, by Etheridge Knight
8. Blood, by Naomi Shihab Nye
9. After Midnight, by Louis Simpson
10. Telephone Conversation, by Wole Soyinka
11. Woman, by Nikki Giovanni
12. Adolescence II, by Rita Dove
13. Come, by Makhosazana Xaba
14. Silet, by Ezra Pound
15. Seeing the Eclipse in Maine, by Robert Bly
16. Kingdom of Rain II, by Rustum Kozain
17. Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden
18. Digging, by Seamus Heaney
19. Cleaning, by Kwame Dawes (click on the link to access the poem)
20. The Schooner Flight, by Derek Walcott
21. Not my Business, by Niyi Osundare
22. Evening Hawk, Robert Penn Warren
23. Sunflowers, by Pamela Mordecai
24. Like Rousseau, by Amiri Baraka
25. Epitaph, by Dennis Scott