“Today” is a poem by Billy Collins (Born 22 March 1941 in New York City, NY, USA)
“Mortal Limit” is a poem by Robert Penn Warren (Born on 24 Apr 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, USA, and died on 15 Sept 1989 in Stratton, Vermont, USA)
“My Father” is a poem by Yehuda Amichai (Born 3 May 1924 in Würzburg, Germany — died 22 Sept 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel)
“Morning Song” is a poem by Sylvia Plath (Born 27 Oct 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA – died 11 Feb 1963 in London, UK)
“Judas and the Sanhedrin” is a poem by Rethabile Masilo (Born 20 Jul 1961 in Morija, Lesotho.)
“Horns” is a poem by Kwame Dawes (Born 28 Jul 1962 in Accra, Ghana. Ghanaian-Jamaican poet, editor, and critic based in the US.)
“Somehow we Survive” is a poem by Denis Brutus (Born 28 Nov 1924 in Salisbury, [now Harare, Zimbabwe], died 26 Dec 2009 in Cape Town, RSA).
“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)
“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.
