LIT 101 Poems

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman

How Rare a Really Beautiful Hand Is Now, Since the Harp Has Gone Out of Fashion!

Amy Key

Identity

Angela C. Trudell Vasquez

I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

Chen Chen

America

Claude McKay

The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

Danez Smith

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

Blues-ing on the Brown Vibe

Esther Belin

A Letter to the Girl I Used to Be

Ethan Smith

To Live in the Borderlands

Gloria Anzaldúa

Look at Us

John Trudell

I, Too

Langston Hughes

won't you celebrate with me

Lucille Clifton

Caged Bird

Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman

Maya Angelou

My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears

Mohja Kahf

ESL

Muna Abdulahi

We Wear the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Phillis Wheatley

A Declaration, Not of Independence

Ralph Salisbury

A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair

Raych Jackson

América

Richard Blanco

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost

The Magpie

Robert S. Warshow

Good Hair

Sherman Alexie

Urban Girl Writes Another Poem About her Dead Father

Siaara Freeman

Ballad

Sonia Sanchez

Living for the City

Stevie Wonder

Saturn

Stevie Wonder