Poetry By and For Uncrowned Queens
In her poem, America's Uncrowned Queens, Drusilla Dunjee Houston honors all women who march through life "untrumpeted and unseen". Her words inspired the name for the Uncrowned Queens project and set a precedent for us to work diligently toward honoring Western New York's unsung heroines.
Like Drusilla, several of our Uncrowned Queens have written poetry or have inspired others to write poetry. Below is a small sampling of the works of these remarkable women and men.
If you have a poem celebrating African American women and would like it considered for posting on the Uncrowned Queens Web site, please contact us at info@uncrownedcommunitybuilders.com.
- Malika Halima Amada (vonetta t. rhodes)
- Advice © 2002
- Ashe to the Mother© 2002
- Dark Eve © 2004
- OK/A'ight /Move On-2 © 2003
- The Process of Breaking a Sistah ©
2004
- Sharon R. Amos
- Bertha Hall Amos: 100 Years Famous © 2003
- The Brown Eyed Girls © 2004
- Our Hats Are Off to You, Beverly © 2004
- A Tribute © 2001
- Cameron A. Bailey, Sr.
- I am Here © 2001
- Virginia Batchelor, Ph.D.
- A Soul's Reunion © 2002
- A Soul's Reunion © 2002
- Peggy Brooks-Bertram
- African Sisterhood © 1990
- African Sisterhood © 1990
- Georgia Burnette
- The Crown of Friendship © 2008
- I've Lost a Child © 2005
- The Love of My Life, My Little Red Car © 2008
- Ode to Moving © 2007
- Steve's Girls © 2008
- Allie H. Freeman
- Crowned by Queens, November 2007
- The Many Faces of Music, 2008
- Drusilla Dunjee Houston
- Lena Mason
- Linda (Lynn) Means
- Your Baby Girl © 2004
- Joan Papalia-Eisert
- After the Game © 1988
- A Backyard Day © 1996
- Flat Days © 1996
- Floaters © 1995
- Washday © 1995
- What We Can Have © 2003
- Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.
- Dear Andy © 1996
- Goodbye to Sister Sarah © 2000
- Shirley Sarmiento
- Uncrownedqueens © 2002
- Crista C. Williams
- Black Hole © 1996