Recordings of Poems, freestyles by Black Women Poets

 Here's a roundup of recordings of poems and freestyles by black women that we've repeateldy covered in one of my African American literature courses over the last several years.

• Maya Angelou - "Phenomenal Woman" and "Still I Rise"

• Gwendolyn Brooks - "Song in the Front Yard" and "We Real Cool"

• Mahogany L. Browne - "Black Girl Magic" 

• Lucille Clifton - "Homage to My Hips" and "won't you celebrate with me"

• Wanda Coleman  - "Wanda, Why Aren't You Dead?" 

• Jayne Cortez - "I Am New York City"

• Dreezy - "Chiraq"

• Kelly Norman Ellis - "Raised by Women"

• Nikki Giovanni - "Ego-Tripping" and "Nikki Rosa"

• Lauryn Hill - "Freedom Time"

• June Jordan - "Poem about My Rights"

• Meg Thee Stallion - freestyle 

• Tracie Morris - "Project Princess" 

• Jae Nichelle - "Friends With Benefits"

• Porsha (Porsha O.) Olayiwola - "Angry Black Woman"

• Sonia Sanchez - "summer words of a sistuh addict," "a/needed/poem for my salvation"

• Patricia Smith - "Skinhead"

• Margaret Walker - "For My People," "Molly Means," "Kissie Lee"