Classic and Contemporary Poets

MICHAEL S. HARPER

Poems found: 341

1962: VETERANS' DAY: UCLA STUDY REGIMEN: SOME INDIANA (HOOSIER KLAN REFLECTIONS)

21 FEB '65, SAN FRANCISCO

55: THE JOURNEY MOTIF IN MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY SONG JUNE 6, 1998

A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN COLTRANE: PLAYED BY HIMSELF

ABORIGINES: ESTONIA

ACHEBE AT THE BRIDGE

ADVICE TO CLINTON (1)

ADVICE TO CLINTON (1)

ADVICE TO CLINTON (2)

ADVICE TO CLINTON (2)

AFTERWORD: A FILM

AMERICAN HISTORY

AMERICAN HISTORY

ANCIENT HISTORY, UNDYING LOVE

ANGOLA: LOUISIANA

ARCHIVES: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, I

ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.

ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.

ARTHRITIS DANCE

AT THE CEMETERY

BATTLE OF SARATOGA (SPRINGS) REVISITED

BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS

BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS

BLACK CRYPTOGRAM

BLUE RUTH: AMERICA

BLUES FOR A COLORED SINGER: MILT JACKSON

BR'ER STERLING AND THE ROCKER

BREADED MEAT, BREADED HANDS

CANNON ARRESTED

CANNON ARRESTED

CHANGES ON COLEMAN BEAN HAWKIN'S BIRTHDAY

CHANGING NAMES IN THE STREET

CHARLOTTE AND NATHAN EXCHANGE: 50TH ANNIVERSARY

CHARLOTTE TO NATHAN

CLAN MEETING: BIRTH AND NATIONS: A BLOOD SING

CLAN MEETING: BIRTH AND NATIONS: A BLOOD SONG

CLARK'S WAY WEST: ANOTHER VERSION

COLTRANE POEM: 9 23 98

COLTRANE POEM: SEPTEMBER 23, 1998

COME BACK BLUES

CONVERSATIONS WITH ROY DECARAVA

CORRECTED REVIEW: THEREISATREEMOREANCIENTTHANEDEN

CROSSING LAKE MICHIGAN

DANCE OF THE ELEPHANTS

DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL

DAY ROOM: ST. ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL

DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE

DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE

DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM

DEAR ROMIE: ROCK FORMATION EPISTLES

DEXTER LEAPS IN

DINING FROM A TREED CONDITION, AN HISTORICAL SURVEY

DIRTY SIDE OF THE HURRICANE

DOUGLASS POSITION, 1863

DREAM: BICENTENNIAL, ROCHESTER, N.Y.: AFTER F.D. RESIDENCE FIRE

DRIVING THE BIG CHRYSLER ACROSS THE COUNTRY OF MY BIRTH

DROWNING OF THE FACTS OF A LIFE

ENDS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

FANNY'S KITCHEN

FAULKNER'S CENTENNIAL POEM: SEPTEMBER 25, 1997

FOR BUD; FOR BUD POWELL

FOUNDING FATHERS IN PHILADELPHIA

FREDERICK, IS GOD DEAD?'

FREE ASSOCIATIONS: SOME PRACTICAL SYMBOLS

FROM A TOWN IN MINNESOTA

GALVESTON: 9 8 1900

GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM

GOING' TO THE TERRITORY'

HEARTBLOW: MESSAGES

HERE WHERE COLTRANE IS

HERE WHERE COLTRANE IS

HIDDEN FRIENDS OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

HIGH MODES: VISION AS RITUAL: CONFIRMATION

HINTON'S SILKSCREENS

HISTORY AS APPLE TREE

HISTORY AS BANDAGES: POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS

HISTORY AS DIABOLICAL MATERNALISM

HOMAGE TO A MEAN MONKEY-MAN

HOMAGE TO MAMIE OWENS

HOMAGE TO THE BROWN BOMBER

HOMAGE TO THE BROWN BOMBER

HOMAGE TO THE NEW WORLD

HOUSE ON MIRAMAR, SAN FRANCISCO

HOW TO FORGIVE THE FATHER WHO SCREAMS AT HIS SON

I WAS BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE AS MY MOTHER, AND DELIVERED BY THE SAME

IF YOU DON'T FORCE IT

IMPERTINENT CORRESPONDENCE

IN HAYDEN'S COLLAGE

INTENTIONAL SUFFERING

IT TAKES A HELLEVA NERVE TO SELL WATER

IT THE MAN/WOMAN OUTSIDE WHO JUDGES

IT THE MAN/WOMAN OUTSIDE WHO JUDGES: PART II

JEST: A COLLECTION OF RECORDS

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN

JOSH GIBSON'S BAT

JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERIOR

JUDICIAL ASSIGNMENT

LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG

LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG

LATE SEPTEMBER REFRAIN

LAWSON'S RETURN

LECTURING ON A THEME OF MOTHERHOOD

LETTER OF ATHENAEUM COUPLETS IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM STRICKLAND

LINE: HOW TO STEP OUT OF IT

LOVE LETTERS OF HELEN PITTS DOUGLASS

LOVE MEDLEY: PATRICE CUCHULAIN

LOVE POSTCARD WHILE LISTENING TO 'AUTUMN LEAVES'

MADIMBA: GWENDOLYN BROOKS

MADIMBA: GWENDOLYN BROOKS

MAKIN' JUMP SHOTS

MAKIN' JUMP SHOTS

MARY KINZIE'S TALK ON MILTON

MATCHBOOK: THE SPINNAKER: SAUSALITO

MEANING OF PROTEST

MEDITATION FOR INESE

MEDITATION ON AUBURN PRISON: FOR HARRIET TUBMAN

MEMORIAL MEETINGS

MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION

MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION

MILITANCE OF A PHOTOGRAPH IN THE PASSBOOK OF A BANTU .. DETENTION

MODULATIONS ON A THEME: FOR JOSEPHUS LONG

MOLASSES AND THE THREE WITCHES

MOTHER SPEAKS: THE ALGIERS MOTEL INCIDENT, DETROIT

MR. KNOWLTON PREDICTS

MR. P.C., 1942-98, BARD COLLEGE

MY AUNT ELLA MAE

MY BOOK ON TRANE

MY BOOK ON TRANE (1)

MY BOOK ON TRANE (2)

MY FATHER AT 75

MY FATHER AT 75

MY FATHER'S FACE

MY FATHER'S FACE

MY MOTHER'S BIBLE

MY STUDENTS WHO STAND IN SNOW

MYRDAL'S SACRED FLAME

NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE

NEWS FROM FORT ANCIENT

NEWSLETTER FROM MY MOTHER

NIGHT LETTER, I

NIGHT LETTER, II

NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY

NIGHTMARE BEGINS RESPONSIBILITY

NOTES ON MAKING: THE HEROIC PATTERN UPDATED: 1997

ODD FACTS ABOUT THE PAINTER: ON CAUSALITY

ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED

ON FIRST LISTENING TO NATIVE DANCER BY WAYNE SHORTER

PARADISE: GIHON RIVER, JOHNSON, VERMONT

PARDONS (FROM A. LINCOLN)

PATRICE LUMUMBA

PATRICE LUMUMBA

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR: 1872-1906

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR: 1872-1906

PEACE PLAN: MEDITATION ON THE NINE STAGES OF 'PEACEMAKING' AS A

PHOTOGRAPHS: A VISION OF MASSACRE

PHOTOGRAPHS: NEGATIVES

POCAHONTAS: TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA

PORTRAIT (JAY SAUNDERS REDDING AT SAYLES HALL): 5 26 97

PORTRAIT OF JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

PORTRAIT OF LYNN

PRAISESONG FOR B B (2 18 97)

PRAYER: MT. HOOD AND ENVIRONS

PREACHING AT THE FUNERAL: SONGS OF THE CHOIR IN SILENT PRAYER

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES

PROLOGUE OF AN ARKANSAS TRAVELER

PSYCHOPHOTOS OF HAMPTON

QUERIES TO ALICE ELIZABETH: AN OBITUARY, PALM SUNDAY, 1998

QUILTING BEE: MECKLENBURG COUNTY

RAT FEVER: HISTORY AS HALLUCINATION

READING ISHERWOOD'S LETTER CIRCA 1959-63

READING JEAN TOOMER'S CANE AGAIN

RELAXING WITH R.B.S. OVER TUNES

RELEASE: KIND OF BLUE

REMEMBER MEXICO

REMEMBER MEXICO

REVOLUTIONARY GARDEN

RHODE ISLAND (SSBNT740): A TOAST

RHYTHMIC ARRANGEMENTS: ON PROSODY

RICHARD YARDE'S BLUES

ROSE: MAY 17, 1998

SAINT SASSY DIVING

SANCTITY OF THE UNWRITTEN

SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP

SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP

SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS: 1944-1999

SINATRA': 1915-98

SINATRA': 1915-98

SONG: I WANT A WITNESS

SONGLINES FROM A TESSERA (E) JOURNAL: ROMARE BEARDEN, 1912-88

TCAT SERENADE: 4 4 98 (NEW HAVEN)

TEACHING INSTITUTES

THE GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM

THIS IS MY SON'S SONG: 'UNGIE, HI UNGIE'

TO AN OLD MAN TWIDDLIN' THUMBS

TONGUE-TIED IN BLACK AND WHITE

TONGUE-TIED IN BLACK AND WHITE

TRAYS: A PORTFOLIO

ULYSSES S. GRANT: HIS PROSE

ULYSSES S. GRANT: HIS PROSE

UMBRELLA OF MAPLE LEAVES

UMBRELLA OF MAPLE LEAVES

UPLIFT FROM A DARK TOWER

VIEW FROM MOUNT SAINT HELENS

WE ASSUME: ON THE DEATH OF OUR SON, REUBEN MASAI HARPER

WHAT I MEAN BY PUBLIC PARLANCE; FOR MARILYN CHIN

WIZARDRY: THE POETIC SAGA IN SONG OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS

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