“Mother to Son” is a poem by Langston Hughes (Born 1 Feb 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, USA, died 22 May 1967 in NYC, NY, USA)

“Sunflowers” is a poem by Pamela Mordecai (Born 12 Aug 1942 in Kingston, Jamaica)

“Sunflowers” is a poem by Pamela Mordecai (Born 12 Aug 1942 in Kingston, Jamaica)

“I Hear America Singing” is a poem by Walt Whitman (Born 31 May 1819 in West Hills, NY, USA, died 26 Mar 1892 in Camden, NJ, USA)

“I Hear America Singing” is a poem by Walt Whitman (Born 31 May 1819 in West Hills, NY, USA, died 26 Mar 1892 in Camden, NJ, USA)

“Murmuration” is a poem by me (Born 20 June 1961)

“Silence” is a poem by Marianne (Born 15 Nov 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri, USA, died 05 Feb 1972 in NYC, New York, USA)

“Winter Walk” is a poem by Lynette Roberts (Born 4 Jul 1909 in Argentina, died 26 Sept 1995 in Wales)

“Not My Business” is a poem by Niyi Osundare (Born 20 Dec 1947 in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria)

“Homosexuality” is a poem by Frank O’Hara (born 27 Mar 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, died 25 Jul 1966 in Mastic Beach, NYC, USA

“The New Religion” is a poem by Chris Abani (Born 27 December 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria)

“The Sign of Saturn” is a poem by Sharon Olds, Born 19 November 1942 in San Francisco, California, USA

“Beauty” is a poem by Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988), a British writer, poet, editor, and educator of Somali heritage, born in Kenya. In 2013, she received the first Brunel University African Poetry Prize.

“Po-re-li” is undergoing renovations. Nothing big. Something little to make it easier to post. You won’t have to wait long.

“Beauty,” Warsan Shire (Born 01 August 1988 in Nairobi, Kenya).

“Not Getting Closer,” by Jack Gilbert (Born 18 Feb 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, died 13 Nov 2012 in Berkeley, California, United States).

“To the One Upstairs,” by Charles Simic (Born 09 May 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, died 09 Jan 2023 in Dover, New Hampshire, USA)

“The End of the World,” by Archibald MacLeish (Born 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, USA, died 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA).

“[Sonnet] You Jerk You Didn't Call Me Up,” by Bernadette Mayer (Born 12 May 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., died 22 Nov 2022 in East Nassau, New York, U.S.).

“Recreation,” by Wendell Berry (Audre Lorde (Born 18 Feb 1934 in NYC, New York, USA, died 17 Nov 1992 in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands).).