On Being Brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley --
George Moses Horton, Myself / George Moses Horton --
Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
To One Coming North / Claude McKay --
Black Finger / Angelina Weld Grimke --
Exultation / Mae V. Cowdery --
Song of the Son / Jean Toomer --
Tableau / Countee Cullen --
I, Too / Langston Hughes --
Creation / James Weldon Johnson --
Haiku 37/ Haiku 64 / Richard Wright --
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden --
Pete at the Zoo / Gwendolyn Brooks --
I Want to Write / Margaret Walker --
Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom / Alice Walker --
Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni --
A Round / Carolyn M. Rodgers --
My Father's First Baseball Game / Afaa Michael Weaver --
A Meditation for My Son --
Poet / Lucille Clifton --
Imagination / James Baldwin --
Caged Bird / Maya Angelou --
Alone / Michael S. Harper --
Plum blossom plum jam / June Jordan --
Offspring / Naomi Long Madgett --
Obsidian / Melvin Dixon --
Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander --
My People / Langston Hughes