Twenty-five poems to read again and again
Dark August , by Derek Walcott Stars of Stone , by Rustum Kozain You, Therefore , by Reginald Shepherd Roses and Revolutions , by Dudley Randall A Girl , by Ezra Pound Confession , by Geoffrey Philp Feeling Fucked Up , by Etheridge Knight Blood , by Naomi Shihab Nye After Midnight , by Louis Simpson Telephone Conversation , by Wole Soyinka Woman , by Nikki Giovanni Adolescence II , by Rita Dove Come , by Makhosazana Xaba Silet , by Ezra Pound Seeing the Eclipse in Maine , by Robert Bly Kingdom of Rain II , by Rustum Kozain Those Winter Sundays , by Robert Hayden Digging , by Seamus Heaney Cleaning , by Kwame Dawes (click on the link to access the poem) The Schooner Flight , by Derek Walcott Not my Business , by Niyi Osundare Evening Hawk , Robert Penn Warren Sunflowers , by Pamela Mordecai Like Rousseau , by Amiri Baraka Epitaph , by Dennis Scott