Patricia Smith

Popular Poems

When the Burning Begins
Hip-Hop Ghazal
Siblings
Katrina
An Open Letter to Joseph Peter Naras, Take 2 Or, Today's After-School Special Veers into Explosive Territory
The President Flies Over
Buried
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
What Garfield Park Kept Saying
suitcases of the insane
THAT'S WHAT THAT IS
A Street in Lawndale
Prologue—And Then She Owns You -
Medusa