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BY NIKKI GIOVANNI

By Amiri Baraka

BY ROBERT FROST

BY GILLIAN CLARKE

Think of it waiting three hundred million years,  

not a hare hiding in the last stand of wheat,

BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun

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 LANGSTON HUGHES
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance

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