FACULTY SAMPLER

Body of Life
by Elizabeth Alexander

Soul Make A Path Through Shouting
by Cyrus Cassells

Miss Rosie
by Lucille Clifton

Meeting (for Lorna)
by Kwame Dawes

On a Picture of the Buddhist Monk Pema Chodron
by Toi Derricotte

Who am I?
by Cornelius Eady

Cotton Tea
by Nikky Finney

Light, Bright, Etc.
by C. S. Giscombe

Sherley Anne Williams:1944-1999
by Michael Harper

Immolatus
by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Fire This Time
by Harryette Mullen

Epithalamium and Shivaree
by Marilyn Nelson

As from a Quiver of Arrows
by Carl Phillips

A Poem for My Father (96 years old on Feb. 29, 2000)
by Sonia Sanchez

Handsome George
by Tim Seibles

Look at 'em Go
by Patricia Smith

At Dawn in My Stables
by Afaa M. Weaver

The Old Country
by Al Young

POETRY PRIZE WINNERS

Domestic Work, 1937
by 1999 Prize Winner Natasha Tretheway

Oregon Boogie
by 2000 Prize Winner Major Jackson

Bop: Haunting
by 2001 Prize Winner Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Drought
by 2002 Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith

Old Ways
by 200 Prize Winner Kyle Dargan

Chore
by 2004 Prize Winner Amber Flora Thomas

Detroit {1916}
by 2005 Prize Winner Constance Quarterman Bridges

Negrotizing in Five or How to Write a Black Poem
by 2006 Prize Winner Dawn Lundy Martin