Browse Famous Poets
BY AI OGAWA
BY PLATO
By Marin Espada —for Frank Espada The beer company did not hire Blacks or Puerto Ricans, so my father joined the picket line at the...
By Miguel Pinero Just once before I die I want to climb up on a tenement sky to dream my lungs out till I cry then scatter my ashes thru...
BY GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON
Fierce is the conflict—the battle of eyes,
By Nikki Giovanni poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room we poets...
BY MARK TWAIN
By Jayne Cortez
BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun