Jericho Brown: Readings from “The New Testament”

Reginald Dwayne Betts: A Name Like a Handcuff

Derek Walcott: The Perpetual Ideal Is Astonishment

Terrance Hayes: “Arbor for Butch”

Natasha Trethewey: History’s Lost and Found

Strange Fruit

The Problem with Mothers

Marilyn Nelson

Amiri Baraka: “I Am”

Maya Angelou: Mystical, Magical, Musical, and Lyrical

Discovering Lucille Clifton

Gwendolyn Brooks: Furious Flower, 1994