A lost memory of Delhi / Agha Shahid Ali --
Newark / Evan Braunstein --
Sun with issues / David Colosi --
Endangered species / William Cook --
from Elemental journey: anniversary gift, #4 and #5 / Alicia Gaspar de Alba --
San Jose: a poem / Cynthia Gomez --
Three snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley / Ray Gonzalez --
Hurakan: a two way poem / Linda M. Rodriguez Guglielmoni --
The idea of Detroit / Jim Gustafson --
Earth chorus / Juan Felipe Herrera --
Shagoon 1-4 / Andrew Hope III --
Animal Liberation / Genny Lim --
Oaktown CA / Reginald Lockett --
Chicago / Susan Marshall --
The steeple-jack / Marianne Moore --
#8 from The past / William Oandasan --
At Yorktown / Charles Olson --
La jolla. in 3 acts / J. Cody Peterson --
Earthquake blues / Ishmael Reed --
Chicago / Carl Sandburg --
The heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz --
Every where and every when / Arthur Sze --
Cows and Alabama folklore / Kathryn Takara --
Hurricane Doris / Lorenzo Thomas --
Love poem to an avocado from a tomato / Yumi Thomas --
Los Angeles / Nick Van Brunt --
Montana's biggest weekend / Whitney Ward --
Pear's complaint / Greg Youmans --
Black Mountain blues / Bessie Smith.
The battle / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The brides come to Yuba City / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni --
Something nice / Jack Forbes --
from Lives in dreadful wanting / Alex Kuo --
Love is not a word / Eugene B. Redmond --
The purpose of altar boys / Alberto Rios --
A very valentine / Gertrude Stein --
Ringless / Diane Wakoski --
The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams --
Bad girl blues / Memphis Willie B. (Borum) --
Why must u be unfaithful (4 women) / Tupac Shakur.
Bells / Jimmy Santiago Baca --
A place without shame / David Baraza --
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop --
Oh! mercy mercy me! a family gathers to Marvin Gaye / Laura Soul Brown --
Callaloo / Chezia Thompson Cager --
Nani worries about her father's unhappiness in the afterlife / Ana Castillo --
One man's family / Rosemary Catacalos --
Good times / Lucille Clifton --
The names / Billy Collins --
Grandmother Eliza / Nora Marks Dauenhauer --
April fool birthday poem for Grandpa / Diane di Prima --
Aunt Helen / T. S. Eliot --
Bicentennial anti-poem for Italian-American women / Daniela Gioseffi --
Dance of the letters / Vince Gotera --
Winnings / Garrett Hongo --
Joshua Clark / Maurice Kenny --
Aerogramme 1-5: Los Angeles / Russell Leong --
This is the poem I never meant to write / Colleen J. McElroy --
Doll / Josephine Miles --
Last days of a slow cooker / Mursalata Muhammad --
My shattered sister / Naomi Quinonez --
Hungry / Luis J. Rodriguez --
Turkey people / Brynn Noelle Saito --
Quill holler waller / Joan Self --
The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton --
The elders / Charles Simic --
Uncle good intentions / Susie Silook --
Easter: Wahiawa, 1959 / Cathy Song --
Untitled / Phillina Sun --
For my sister / Jannifer Traig --
The cloud unfolding / Ernesto Trejo --
The fat of the land / Ronald Wallace --
Six families of Puerto Ricans / Terence Winch --
It's in the blood / Nellie Wong --
The dirty dozens / Speckled Red.
And in the U.S.A. / Miguel Algarin --
Integrating the strawberry swimming pool in 1998 / Cecil Brown --
Killers / Cordelia Candelaria --
Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between races / Lorna Dee Cervantes --
Giles Johnson, Ph.D. / Frank Marshall Davis --
The song of the smoke / W. E. B. DuBois --
Speak the truth to the people / Mari Evans --
1933 / Kenneth Fearing --
A semi-revolution / Robert Frost --
Centennial year for the spirits / Sister Goodwin (Elizabeth Hope) --
That god made / Will Heford --
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria / Langston Hughes --
The potato manifesto / Cynthia Hwang --
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa --
What were they like? / Denise Levertov --
The execution / Walter Lowenfels --
Milla: mi abuela, Puerto Rico / Nancy Mercado --
This Passover or the next I will never be in Jerusalem / Hilton Obenzinger --
from America in 1918 / John Reed --
For the angry white student who wanted to know if I thought white people ever did anything good for "the Indians" / Wendy Rose --
Poem (I lived in the first century) / Muriel Rukeyser --
Between the world and me / Richard Wright.
Coyote makes the first people / Peter Blue Cloud --
Ogun's friend / Jayne Cortez --
Song 1 from Three songs from the 50's / Victor Hernandez Cruz --
Skin of clouds / Thulani Davis --
Helen / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
Tribute to Duke / Sarah Webster Fabio --
Latin music in New York / Jessica Hagedorn --
Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955; March 30, 1999 / Sam Hamod --
Wolf warrior / Joy Harjo --
A ballad of the life and times of Joe Louis: the great brown bomber / Calvin Hernton --
Tiva's tapestry: la llorona / Lina Hogan --
Filling the gap / Lawson Inada --
Skip the byuppie / Ted Joans --
Crootey songo / Bob Kaufman --
Sun Yat Sen comes to Lodi / Alan Chong Lau --
Trickster rabbit / Roland Legiardi-Laura --
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan / Vachel Lindsay --
Viewing Mona Lisa / Angela Martin --
Six movements for portraits of Erzulie / Sandra McPherson --
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath --
Disney's Cinderella / Tennessee Reed --
A flower from Robert Kennedy's grave / Edward Sanders --
from The battlefield where the moon says I love you / Frank Stanford --
Dawnsong! / Askia M. Toure --
A poem for "magic" / Quincy Troupe --
Fallen / Samira Vijghen --
Jerusalem walked thru war / Julia Vinograd --
For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker --
Searchin' / Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.
The imagists' manifesto (1915) / Amy Lowell --
the introduction to American writers' congress (1935) / Henry Hart --
Gwendolyn Brooks (1969) / Haki K. Madhubuti --
An introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American literature (1975) / Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusai Inada, and Shawn Wong --
Adieu a Charlot (second populist manifesto) (1975-1978) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
The rise of the white shaman as a new version of cultural imperialism / Geary Hobson --
from Pro femina (1973) / Carolyn Kizer --
the introduction to Stealing the language, the emergence of women's poetry in America (1986) / Alicia Suskin Ostriker --
The cannon (1999) / Leslie Scalapino --
Police state / Dead Prez.