Occupy Poetry

African-American Poems

• 99% by DeWayne Alston

• A Black Man Talks of Reaping by Arna Bontemps

• A Brown Girl Dead by Countee Cullen

• A Choice by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Conceit by Maya Angelou

• A dull sound, varying now and again by Forrest Hamer

• A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. by Phillis Wheatley

• A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. by Phillis Wheatley

• A Golden Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Memory of June by Claude McKay

• A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• A Poem For Myself by Etheridge Knight

• A Prayer by Claude McKay

• A Rebus, By I. B. by Phillis Wheatley

• A Red Flower by Claude McKay

• A Sunset of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks

• Absence by Claude McKay

• Accountability by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Adolescence by Claude McKay

• Adolescence II by Rita Dove

• Advertisement For The Waldorf-Astoria by Langston Hughes

• Africa by Claude McKay

• After the Winter by Claude McKay

• Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table by Claude McKay

• Alone by Maya Angelou

• America by Claude McKay

• An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley

• An Evening by Gwendolyn Brooks

• An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries by Jupiter Hammon

• An Hymn To Humanity (To S.P.G. Esp) by Phillis Wheatley

• An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley

• An Hymn To The Morning by Phillis Wheatley

• Ardella by Langston Hughes

• As You Leave Me by Etheridge Knight

• At the Tavern by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Baptism by Claude McKay

• Before you knew you owned it by Alice Walker

• Birds of Prey by Claude McKay

• Charlene-n-Booker 4ever by Forrest Hamer

• Coal by Audre Lorde

• Commemoration by Claude McKay

• Common Things by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Confirmation by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Conversation by Ai

• Courage by Claude McKay

• Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine by Etheridge Knight

• Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine by Etheridge Knight

• Dawn in New York by Claude McKay

• Daybreak In Alabama by Langston Hughes

• December, 1919 by Claude McKay

• Democracy by Langston Hughes

• Distinction by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

• Dream Variations by Langston Hughes

• Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar