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Free Verse

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Poems by African American writers using the modern (or modernist) free verse form.

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  1. Poetic Form in African American Poetry Amardeep Singh

Contents of this tag:

  1. Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)
  2. Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)
  3. Langston Hughes, "Young Sailor" (1926)
  4. Langston Hughes, "I , Too" (1925)
  5. Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)
  6. Langston Hughes, "The Dream Keeper" (1925)
  7. Langston Hughes, "Sea Charm" (1925)
  8. Langston Hughes, "Ardella" (1926)
  9. Langston Hughes, "Long Trip" (1926)
  10. Langston Hughes, "Ma Lord" (1927)
  11. Langston Hughes, "Caribbean Sunset" (1926)
  12. Effie Lee Newsome, "Mattinata" (1927)
  13. Langston Hughes, "Troubled Woman" (1926)
  14. Jessie Fauset, "Douce Souvenance" (1920)
  15. Langston Hughes, "Songs to the Dark Virgin" (1926)
  16. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Armageddon" (1925)
  17. Langston Hughes, "Brothers" (1924)
  18. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Attar" (1920)
  19. Mae V. Cowdery (Mae Cowdery), "Longings" (1927)
  20. Mae V. Cowdery, "Want" (1928)
  21. Langston Hughes, "Sea Calm" (1926)
  22. Edward Silvera (Edward S. Silvera), "Introspection" (1928)
  23. Waring Cuney, "Grave" (1926)
  24. Frank Horne, "Youth" (1927)
  25. Richard Bruce Nugent, "Silhouette" (1927)
  26. Donald Jeffrey Hayes, "Night" (1927)
  27. Jessie Fauset, "Stars in Alabama" (1928)
  28. Langston Hughes, "Poem (Being Walkers With the Dawn...)" (1925)
  29. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Paradox" (1924)
  30. Mae V. Cowdery, "Hidden Moon" (1927)
  31. Mae V. Cowdery, "Of the Earth" (1928)
  32. James H. Young, "A Portrait" (1928)