From the Book - First edition.
Won't you be my neighbor?
Fear: eat in or take out?
The sterling silver mirror (for DePaul University)
Reading other people's poems
Raise your hand (in favor of immigrants)
Private secrets (like or no like)
March on Washington 10th anniversary
Look (something may be there)
A praise song for Roots by Alex Haley
My contract with America (or is that America's contract on negroes?)
Re: MoveOn's love letter to essential workers
Some Christmas questions and one answer
My first visit with Ashley
Little brother/big brother (for Morris and David)
Mating time (for a lonely meteorite looking for love)
When water could not encourage you
For the 2023 graduates of Roanoke College
Introducing Knoxville (for Bill Walsh and Reinhardt University)
A friendship (re: breaking rules)
Home (for Beauford Delaney)
Fall in love (for Artemis)
Edna Lewis: after hours in the watershed
January 26, 2020 (the death of Kobe Bryant)
Announcing spring (happy birthday Emma Joahanne Thomas-Smith)
Betty Wills Jacoby Skinner: 7 April 1925-31 July 2020
Commencement during Covid
A recipe for the New York Times (sent to Elizabeth A. Harris)
Cotton in the arms of the mountains
Ten descriptions of me (for Mark Koplik)
Poems (for the Blacksburg Books Community Project)
