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Friends, Family, and Finding Your Place
40 poems
A Far Country
Leslie Pinckney Hill
A Mojave Lullaby
Hen-toh (Bertrand N. O. Walker)
A Prayer
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
A Time to Talk
Robert Frost
A Wyandot Cradle Song
Hen-toh (Bertrand N. O. Walker)
Africa
Lewis Grandison Alexander
Aunt Sue’s Stories
Langston Hughes
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Anne Bradstreet
Brotherhood
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Charles Sumner
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
Coyote
Alexander Posey
Cross
Langston Hughes
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