Poetry Readings

In the following pages, you will find our poetry readings. Click through to find them or click on "Contents" in the upper right hand corner to navigate to the poems assigned for you in a given week.

They include:

• Walt Whitman
  • On Democracy from the preface to Leaves of Grass 1855
  • "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
• June Jordan
  • "A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters"
  • "For the Sake of People's Poetry"
• Audre Lorde
  • "A Litany for Survival"
  • "Poetry is Not a Luxury"
• Elizabeth Acevedo
  • "Hair"
  • "Spear"
  • "Iron"