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
