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The Black poets

By Dudley Randall,Dudley Randall

American Negro poetry

By Arna Bontemps

Black Manhattan

By James Weldon Johnson

Howdy, honey, howdy

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Render Me My Song

By Sandi Russell

Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults

By Barbara Thrash Murphy,Deborah Murphy

Shadowed Dreams

By Maureen Honey,Nellie McKay,Maureen Honey

Black women, writing, and identity

By Carole Boyce Davies

Black Fire

By Amiri Baraka,Neal, Larry

Reconstructing womanhood

By Hazel V. Carby

Shadow and act

By Ralph Ellison

View The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 By Langston Hughes,Arna Bontemps,Lucy Terry,Jupiter Hammon,Phillis Wheatley,George Moses Horton,Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,Armand Lanusse,Pierre Dalcour,George Marion McClellan,Joseph S. Cotter,John Wesley Holloway,W. E. B. Du Bois,James David Corrothers,James Weldon Johnson,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson,William Stanley Braithwaite,Leslie Finckney Hill,Angelina W. Grimke,Benjamin Brawley,Anne Spencer,Effie Lee Newsome,Georgia Douglas (Camp) Johnson,Fenton Johnson,Jessie Redmond Fauset,Binga Dismond,Jean Toomer,Joseph S. Cotter,Melvin B. Tolson,Frank Horne,Marcus B. Christian,Lewis Alexander,Sterling A. Brown,Clarissa Scott Delany,Gwendolyn Bennett,Dorothy Vena Johnson,Countee Cullen,Jonathan Henderson Brooks,Donald Jeffrey Hayes,Frank Marshall Davis,Ariel Williams Holloway,William Waring Cuney,Edward Silvera,Helene Johnson,Richard Wright,Charles Enoch Wheeler,Pauli Murray,Wesley Curtright,David Wadsworth Cannon,Herbert Clark Johnson,Beatrice M. Murphy,Robert E. Hayden,Leslie M. Collins,Owen Dodson,Margaret Walker,Catharine Cater,Helen Johnson Collins,Myron O'Higgins,Bruce McM. Wright,Alfred A. Duckett,M. Carl Holman,Naomi Long Witherspoon,Russell Atkins,Bette Darcie Latimer,Walt Whitman,William Blake,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,William Wordsworth,Edwin Arlington Robinson,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,John Greenleaf Whittier,James Russell Lowell,Edmund Clarence Stedman,Stephen Vincent Benét,Selden Rodman,Herman Melville,Henderson, Alice Corbin,Perient Trott,Vachel Lindsay,Hart Crane,John Gould Fletcher,Ridgely Torrence,William Ellery Leonard,Kenneth Patchen,Maxwell Bodenheim,Kay Boyle,Muriel Rukeyser,A. B. Magil,Karl Jay Shapiro,Hervey Allen,DuBose Heyward,Carl Sandburg,Elizabeth Bishop,Irma Wassall,Sidney Alexander,Witter Bynner,William Rose Benét,Don West,Kenneth Porter,Josephine Miles,St. Clair McKelway,Barbara Stephanie Ormsby,Tom Redcam,Agnes Maxwell-Hall,Walter Adolphe Roberts,George Campbell,K. E. Ingram,Louis Simpson,P. M. Sherlock,Basil McFarlane,J. E. Clare MacFarlane,Constance Hollar,Roger Mais,Una Marson,Vivian L. Virtue,Claude McKay,H. D. Carberry,A. J. Seymour,Raymond Barrow,H. A. Vaughan,Frank A. Collymore,Harold Telemaque,Durand, Oswald,Isaac Toussaint-L'Ouverture,Louis Morpeau,Ignace Nau,Luc Grimard,Philippe Thoby-Marcelin,Christian Werleigh,Normil G. Sylvain,Duraciné Vaval,Emile Roumer,Charles F. Pressoir,Jacques Roumain,Roussan Camille,Jean F. Brierre,Aimé Césaire,Léon-Gontran Damas,Regino Pedroso,Nicolás Guillén,Plácido,Aquah Laluah

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970

By Langston Hughes,Arna Bontemps,Lucy Terry,Jupiter Hammon,Phillis Wheatley,George Moses Horton,Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,Armand Lanusse,Pierre Dalcour,George Marion McClellan,Joseph S. Cotter,John Wesley Holloway,W. E. B. Du Bois,James David Corrothers,James Weldon Johnson,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson,William Stanley Braithwaite,Leslie Finckney Hill,Angelina W. Grimke,Benjamin Brawley,Anne Spencer,Effie Lee Newsome,Georgia Douglas (Camp) Johnson,Fenton Johnson,Jessie Redmond Fauset,Binga Dismond,Jean Toomer,Joseph S. Cotter,Melvin B. Tolson,Frank Horne,Marcus B. Christian,Lewis Alexander,Sterling A. Brown,Clarissa Scott Delany,Gwendolyn Bennett,Dorothy Vena Johnson,Countee Cullen,Jonathan Henderson Brooks,Donald Jeffrey Hayes,Frank Marshall Davis,Ariel Williams Holloway,William Waring Cuney,Edward Silvera,Helene Johnson,Richard Wright,Charles Enoch Wheeler,Pauli Murray,Wesley Curtright,David Wadsworth Cannon,Herbert Clark Johnson,Beatrice M. Murphy,Robert E. Hayden,Leslie M. Collins,Owen Dodson,Margaret Walker,Catharine Cater,Helen Johnson Collins,Myron O'Higgins,Bruce McM. Wright,Alfred A. Duckett,M. Carl Holman,Naomi Long Witherspoon,Russell Atkins,Bette Darcie Latimer,Walt Whitman,William Blake,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,William Wordsworth,Edwin Arlington Robinson,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,John Greenleaf Whittier,James Russell Lowell,Edmund Clarence Stedman,Stephen Vincent Benét,Selden Rodman,Herman Melville,Henderson, Alice Corbin,Perient Trott,Vachel Lindsay,Hart Crane,John Gould Fletcher,Ridgely Torrence,William Ellery Leonard,Kenneth Patchen,Maxwell Bodenheim,Kay Boyle,Muriel Rukeyser,A. B. Magil,Karl Jay Shapiro,Hervey Allen,DuBose Heyward,Carl Sandburg,Elizabeth Bishop,Irma Wassall,Sidney Alexander,Witter Bynner,William Rose Benét,Don West,Kenneth Porter,Josephine Miles,St. Clair McKelway,Barbara Stephanie Ormsby,Tom Redcam,Agnes Maxwell-Hall,Walter Adolphe Roberts,George Campbell,K. E. Ingram,Louis Simpson,P. M. Sherlock,Basil McFarlane,J. E. Clare MacFarlane,Constance Hollar,Roger Mais,Una Marson,Vivian L. Virtue,Claude McKay,H. D. Carberry,A. J. Seymour,Raymond Barrow,H. A. Vaughan,Frank A. Collymore,Harold Telemaque,Durand, Oswald,Isaac Toussaint-L'Ouverture,Louis Morpeau,Ignace Nau,Luc Grimard,Philippe Thoby-Marcelin,Christian Werleigh,Normil G. Sylvain,Duraciné Vaval,Emile Roumer,Charles F. Pressoir,Jacques Roumain,Roussan Camille,Jean F. Brierre,Aimé Césaire,Léon-Gontran Damas,Regino Pedroso,Nicolás Guillén,Plácido,Aquah Laluah