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Arna Bontemps: Author Page

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Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) was one of the preeminent figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in Louisiana into a Creole family. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1905; Bontemps was educated there, and graduated from Pacific Union College in 1923. Bontemps moved to New York City, wherre he began teaching at what was then called Harlem Academy. He began publishing poems in magazines like The Crisis, and Opportunity. In 1926 and 1927, he won the Alexander Pushkin Prize (sponsored by Opportunity), in 1926, he won the poetry prize for The Crisis. 

In the 1930s, Bontemps lived in Alabama and California, and published several novels as well as writing for children. More here.
 

Contents of this path:

  1. Arna Bontemps, Biographical Note, "Caroling Dusk" (1927)
  2. Arna Bontemps, "Hope" (1924)
  3. "The Day-Breakers" by Arna Bontemps (in "The New Negro" [1925])
  4. Arna Bontemps, "God Give to Men" (1925)
  5. Arna Bontemps, "Spring Music" (1925)
  6. Arna Bontemps, "Dirge" (1926)
  7. Arna Bontemps, "Holiday" (1926)
  8. Arna Bontemps, "Homing" (1926)
  9. Arna Bontemps, "Here Is the Sea" (1926)
  10. Arna Bontemps, "Length of Moon" (1926)
  11. Arna Bontemps, "The Shattering" (March 1926)
  12. Arna Bontemps, "The Day-Breakers" (1926)
  13. Arna Bontemps, "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" (1927)
  14. Arna Bontemps, "A Tree Design" (1927)
  15. Arna Bontemps, "Angela" (1927)
  16. Arna Bontemps, "Blight" (1927)
  17. Arna Bontemps, "Close Your Eyes!" (1927)
  18. Arna Bontemps, "Gethsemane" (1927)
  19. Arna Bontemps, "Golgotha Is a Mountain" (1926)
  20. Arna Bontemps, "Lancelot" (1927)
  21. Arna Bontemps, "Near the Cedar Tree" (1927)
  22. Arna Bontemps, "Nocturne at Bethesda" (1926)
  23. Arna Bontemps, "The Return" (1927)
  24. Arna Bontemps, "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country" (1927)
  25. Arna Bontemps, "Tree" (1927)

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