“Black Matters” by Keith S. Wilson, an award-winning Affrilachian poet, NEA Fellow, author of Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, based in Chicago.
“I Know The Truth” by Marina Tsvetaeva (Born 8 Oct 1892 in Moscow, Russian Empire; Died 31 Aug 1941 in Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR, Soviet Union).
“When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver (Born 10 September 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio, USA; Died 17 January 2019 in Hobe Sound, Florida, USA).
“Upon Reading Facts About The Moon” by Rethabile Masilo (Author of Mbera. Born 20 June 1961 in Morija, Lesotho).
“Facts About The Moon” by Dorianne Laux (Born 10 January 1952 in Augusta, Maine, USA).
“Francesca” by Ezra Pound (Born 30 Oct 1885 in Hailey, Idaho, USA, died 1 Nov 1972 in Venice, Italy).
“Kumina” by Kamau Brathwaite (Born 11 May 1930 in Bridgetown, Barbados; died 4 Feb 2020 in Barbados)
“Gift” by Czesław Miłosz (Born 30 Jun 1911 in Šeteniai, Lithuania, died 14 Aug 2004 in Kraków, Poland).
“Butter” by Finuala Dowling Finuala Dowling (Born 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa).
“After an Absence” by Linda Pastan (Born 27 May 1932 in The Bronx, NY, USA, died 30 Jan 2023 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA).
“Warning” by Jenny Joseph (Born 7 May 1932 in Birmingham, England, died 8 Jan 2018 in Oxfordshire, England).
“A Month of Happiness” by Robert Bly (Born 23 Dec 1926 in Madison, Minnesota, USA, died 21 Nov 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA).
“Sun Song” by Langston Hughes (Born 1 Feb 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, USA, died 22 May 1967 in New York City, New York, USA)
“Rain Light” by W. S. Merwin (Born 30 Sept 1927 in New York City, USA, died 15 March 2019 in Maui, Hawaii, USA).
“A Winter Twilight” by Angelina Weld Grimké (Born 27 Feb 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; died 10 June 1958 in New York City, New York, USA)
“My Sister’s Boy” by Rethabile Masilo (Rethabile Masilo (I was born in 1961 in Morija, Lesotho, at Scott Hospital. Today I live in Paris, France)
“Way to Go” by A. R. Simmons A.R. Ammons (Born 18 February 1926 in Whiteville, North Carolina, USA; died 25 February 2001 in Ithaca, New York, USA)
“When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver (Born 10 September 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio, USA, died 17 January 2019 in Hobe Sound, Florida, USA)
“Back From Vacation” by John Updike (Born 18 March 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA; died 27 January 2009 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA)
