This is not a small voice: poems by Black poets

Introduction / Traci N. Todd

The dream keeper / Langston Hughes

Come all you little persons / John Agard

Lift every voice and sing (extract) / James Weldon Johnson

Dark testament (extract) / Pauli Mirray

This body II / Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

Morning liturgy (extract) / Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Narcissa / Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert, who is often a stranger to himself / Gwendolyn Brooks

Don't cry caterpillar / Grace Nichols

Mumble the magic words / Jabari Asim

Miss Mary Mack introduces her wings / Tyree Daye

Bird's nest (after Max Sansing) / Jamila Woods

Granny Granny please comb my hair / Grace Nichols

Before going to the barbershop / Gabriel Ramirez

The black flamingo (extract) / Dean Atta

I like to stay up / Grace Nichols

Anancy / Andrew Salkey

Ah was readin' a book / Valerie Bloom

Why some people be mad at me sometimes / Lucille Clifton

Checking out me history / John Agard

Waves / Jackie Kay

Windrush child / John Agard

Mama-wata / Grace Nichols

Mawu of the waters / Abena P.A. Busia

She, on the way to Monk's Hill / Blessing Musariri

The song of the highway (extract) / Pauli Murray

The runaway kite / Jessie Fauset

Latch key kid / Derrick Barnes

Shea butter manifesto / Eve L. Ewing

But what can you teach my daughter / Audre Lorde

From your auntie, to my best friend's kid / Ella McLeod

Breakfast table / David Ishaya Osu

... I write / Alicia D. Williams

I am the creativity / Alexis De Veaux

I love the look of words / Maya Angelou

Things / Eloise Greenfield

To the notebook kid / Eve L. Ewing

Delroy the skateboard roller / James Berry

For poets / Al Young

Allow me to introduce myself / Charles R. Smith Jr.

The emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle) / Mari Evans

American gothic (to Satch) / Samuel Allen

Science... / Gordon Nelson

Good trouble / Nikki Grimes

This is not a small voice / Sonia Sanchez

Silent talking / Dana Marrett-Silvera

Haiku 369 / Richard Wright

Photograph / Lucille Clifton

Toward the sky / Effie Lee Newsome

Thirteen / Caleb Femi

A small needful fact / Ross Gay

Haiku 694 / Richard Wright

Fury & faith (extract) / Amanda Gorman

A tribute / Donna F. Thomas

You are on your way to greatness / Winsome Bingham

Say how you feel / Joseph Coelho

Common things / James Alpheus Butler, Jr.

October (extract) / Ijeoma Umebinyuo

I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron

Haiku / Sonia Sanchez

Morning / Dionne Brand

Carnival days (extract) / Benjamin Zephaniah

Where the rainbow ends / Richard Rive

A rainy day / Lottie Burrell Dixon

The cotton cat / Effie Lee Newsome

Haiku 457 / Richard Wright

Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni

Snow prints / Effie Lee Newsome

From space / Joseph Coelho

Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander

Where's my moon? / Carole Boston Weatherford

Granddaddy / Dinah Johnson

Timmy and Tawanda / Gwendolyn Brooks

Being Black in my neighborhood / Ja A. Jahannes

Play song / Peter Clarke

Salt! Vinegar! Mustard! Pepper! / Jessie Faust

Iris song / Rickey Laurentiis

Who can be born Black / Mari Evans

Climbing together / Rio Cortez

History lesson / Natasha Trethewey

Grits : 1967 / Jasmine Mans

Greens / James A. Emanuel

Mammie's coo-coo and callaloo / John Lyons

Jamaica market / Agnes Maxwell-Hall

Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni

In praise of okra / January Gill O'Neil

Saturday morning pancakes / Paula White-Jackson

Ode to a Dominican breakfast / Yesenia Montilla

On quiet feet / Nikki Grimes

In Daddy's arms / Folami Abiade

Happy birthday moon / Raymond Antrobus

The ghosts of women once girls (extract) / Aja Monet

I am the one / Opal Palmer Adisa

Spirit enchantment / Ed Bullins

Fantasy / Gwendolyn Bennett

Night songs / Lynn Joseph

Lullaby / Quandra Prettyman

The quilt / Effie Lee Newsome

Night / Donald Jeffrey Hayes

Poem / Langston Hughes.