Saturday, December 1, 2012

100 Poems read & re-read in 2012

Here we go, 100 poems (including raps) that I enjoyed reading and discussing with my students in my various literature courses in 2012.

• "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
• "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
• "The RhythmBlues" by Amiri Baraka
• "Digging" by Amiri Baraka
• "Monday in B-Flat" by Amiri Baraka
• "In the Funk World" by Amiri Baraka 
• "Dope" by Amiri Baraka
• "Jungle Jim Flunks His Screen Test" by Amiri Baraka
• "75 Bars" by Black Thought
• "kitchenette building" by Gwendolyn Brooks
• "a song in the front yard" by Gwendolyn Brooks
• "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks

• [untitled freestyle] by Canibus
• "Harriet" by Lucille Clifton
• "slaveship" by Lucille Clifton
• "wishes for sons" By Lucille Clifton
• "won't you celebrate with me" By Lucille Clifton 
• "homage to my hips" By Lucille Clifton
• "I am New York City" by Jayne Cortez
• "I Laugh Talk Joke" by Henry Dumas
• "We Wear the Mask" By Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "Sympathy" By Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "Raised by Women" By Kelly Norman Ellis
• "I am a Black Woman" by Mari Evans 
• "White Glove Test" by Vievee Francis

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• "Drummer Boy" by Vievee Francis
• "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden
• "Nikki-Rosa" By Nikki Giovanni
• "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)" By Nikki Giovanni
• "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
• "The Whipping" by Robert Hayden
• "Bury Me in a Free Land" By Frances E. W. Harper
• "Soft Targets" by Essex Hemphill 
• "Black Rage" by Lauryn Hill
• "Lost Ones" by Lauryn Hill
• "Freedom Time" by Lauryn Hill
• "Down and Out" by Langston Hughes
• "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
• "Madam and Her Madam" By Langston Hughes
• "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
•  "Bad Man" by Langston Hughes 
• "Madam and the Phone Bill" By Langston Hughes 
• "Po' Boy Blues" by Langston Hughes
• "Frederick Douglass: 1817-1895" by Langston Hughes 
• "Exhibit C" by Jay Electronica
• "What More Can I Say?" by Jay-Z
• "Where I'm From" by Jay-Z
• "When I Speak of Blues Be Clear" by Tyehimba Jess
• "1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly" by Tyehimba Jess
• "leadbelly’s lessons" by Tyehimba Jess


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• "lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934" by Tyehimba Jess
• "The Heart of a Woman" By Georgia Douglass Johnson 
• "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" By Helene Johnson
• "Thirty Lines about the Fro" By Allison Joseph
• "Sonnet for a Good Mood"By Allison Joseph
• "Elegy for the Personal Letter" By Allison Joseph
• "Three Miles" By Allison Joseph
• "It Was a Funky Deal" by Etheridge Knight
• "I Sing of Shine" by Etheridge Knight 
• "Hard Rock Returns to Prison From  the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" by Etheridge Knight 
• "For Malcolm, A Year After" By Etheridge Knight
• "Battle Royale" By Adrian Matejka
• "The Battle of the Century" By Adrian Matejka
• "Fisticuffs" - audio - By Adrian Matejka
• "Sporting Life" - audio - By Adrian Matejka
• "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay
• "Black Statue of Liberty" by jessica Care moore
• "Project Princess" by Tracie Morris
• "Poppa Stoppa Speaks from His Grave" by Larry Neal
• "The Summer After Malcolm" By Larry Neal
• "DEEP" by Outkast
• "Follow the Leader" by Rakim
• "Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker" by Dudley Randall
• "Milestones" by Eugene B. Redmond
• "around the time of medgar" by Treasure Shields Redmond

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• "Flight to Canada" by Ishmael Reed 
• "a/needed/poem for my salvation" by Sonia Sanchez
• "Summer Words of a Sustuh Addict" by Sonia Sanchez
• "X Marks the Spot" by Evie Shockley
• "improper(ty) behavior" by Evie Shockley
• "improper(ty) behavior" [revision] by Evie Shockley
• "ode to my blackness" by Evie Shockley
• "mesostics from the american grammar book" by Evie Shockley
• "Hip-Hop Ghazal" by Patricia Smith
• "Skinhead" by Patricia Smith
• "For My People" By Margaret Walker 
• "Molly Means" by Margaret Walker
• "Kissie Lee"  by Margaret Walker
• "Lineage" By Margaret Walker
• "Bad-Man Stagolee" by Margaret Walker   
• "The Armageddon of Funk" by Michael Warr
• "On Being Brought From Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley
• "Ohm" Saul Williams 
• "Black Cat Blues" By Kevin Young
• "Dirty Deal Blues" By Kevin Young
• "Bereavement" By Kevin Young 
• "Negative" by Kevin Young
• "Femme Fatale" by Kevin Young
• "Ode to the Midwest" By Kevin Young
• "Bling Bling Blues" by Kevin Young

Related:
100-plus Poems I Read & Re-Read (online) in 2011

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