A love poem / Etheridge Knight

A small contradiction / Pat Parker

Haiku / Sonia Sanchez

To Mareta / Herschel Lee Johnson

Reply / Naomi Long Madgett

My house / Nikki Giovanni

For a new love / Cicely Rodway

Poem no. 11 / Sonia Sanchez

Untitled / C. Tillery Banks

When I'm close to Carol, I gotta move ... / Richard D. Gordon

Song in the night / Irma McClaurin

Love song / Henry Dumas

Plagiarism for a trite love poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers

Black woman, you / Clay A. Fielding

Soul sister / Richard D. Gordon

I love you / Bernard V. Finney, Jr.

Infinity / Phyllis M. Bynum

Poem no. 21 / Doughtry Long

Man thinking about woman / Haki Madhubuti ; Don L. Lee

When Sue wears red / Langston Hughes

Nobody says baby / Beverley Wiggins Wells

Poem / Pearl Cleage

Poem for Joyce / Johnie Scott

You come to me / Quincy Troupe

Chocolate man / Phyllis M. Bynum

It's a boy! / Micki Grant

New blues from a brown baby / Saundra Sharp

Nesting / Saundra Sharp

Love - the beginning and the end / Carolyn M. Rodgers

Never offer your heart to someone who eats hearts / Alice Walker

Ballad / Sonia Sanchez

Love after love / Derek Walcott

Moat / Richard D. Gordon

On learning / Mae Jackson

Free yourself / C. Tillery Banks

Let go and love / Linda Cousins

Drinking beer / Pearl Cleage

For a black lover / Lindsay Patterson

Relationship / Sandra San-Viki Chapman

I am somebody / Ruby Dee

Appreciation / Dorothy E. King

I want to sing / Nikki Giovanni

Pulled tightly / Bernard V. Finney, Jr.

Talking that talk / Doughtry Long

A love poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers

That kiss / Dorothy E. King

Marriage counsel / Ruby Dee

Moonbeams / Elizabeth I. Roberts

Before the act / Barbara-Marie Green

!!!He!!! / Emily M. Newsome

Black love in the afternoon / Dennis Rahiim Watson

Seduction / Nikki Giovanni

Good to be in you / Dudley Randall

Autumn poems / Nikki Giovanni

The doorway that we hide behind / Dee Dee McNeil

Flowers / Sybil Kein

Please disturb / Dorothy Meekins

One nighter / Darnley Osborne

Morning thoughts / Dorothy E. King

Untitled / Pat Parker

If I go all the way without you where would I go? / Ntozake Shange

Perfumed moments with my man / Dee Dee McNeil

My tongue paints a path / Eugene Redmond

Quietly / Herbert Woodward Martin

New Face / Alice Walker

His shirt / Rita Dove

I just couldn't / Hasna Muhammad

A quarter for your thoughts / Jaleelah Karriem

Revelation / Hilton A. Vaughan

I'm beginning to see lights ... / Lindsay Patterson

Young tender / Darnley Osborne

Serial monogamy / Ntozake Shange

Secret life / Pearl Cleage

Can you? / Linda Cousins

For the men who ask : will you write a poem for me? / Beverly Wiggins Wells

Loving too much / Dennis Rahiim Watson

Long glances / Micki Grant

Be warned / Lindsay Patterson

End notes / Haki Madhubuti, Don L. Lee

For the count / Mae Jackson

CJ - the end / Dorothy E. King

The lie / Maya Angelou

Last poem I'm gonna write bout us / Sonia Sanchez

Reaching back / Saundra Sharp

Freedom / Emily M. Newsome

Somewhere in the city / Naomi Long Madgett

Souvenirs / Dudley Randall

Jazzy vanity / Richard W. Thomas

Reflections on a lost love / Haki Madhubuti ; Don L. Lee

Why? / Darnley Osborne

For your information B. W. / Lindsay Patterson

Love equation / Hazel Clayton Harrison

Starting over / Dorothy Meekins

Mountain suite in winter / Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Your place / Emily M. Newsome

A place called comfort / Dorothy Meekins

Old love / Carolyn M. Rodgers

Reaching / Dorothy E. King

Time. Time / Ruby Dee

Love tight / Ted Joans

Treating my lady right / Dennis Rahiim Watson

Untitled / C. Tillery Banks

Love being loved / Linda Cousins

Now and here after / Allison West

Senior love / Barbara-Marie Green

Love letter / Micki Grant

Letter to my overseas lover / Saundra Sharp

Love letter #67 / Carl Cook

Love letter : dreaming and thanks for the loving / Pearl Duncan

Letter : father to son / Allison West

Letter : father to daughter / Allison West

Letter from a wife / S. Carolyn Reese

Love letter #15 / Carl Cook