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12022-01-08T08:40:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12132Intertext Tagplain2023-12-20T12:55:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Below is a collection of poems by African American authors that highlight a dialogue with other writers, including writers from the Anglo-American Canon. Writers like Countee Cullen and William Stanley Braithwaite were particularly aware of their status as poets in a tradition, and the large number of such poems by Cullen listed below reflects his thoughtful, sometimes anguished, self-reflexivity. (See our Countee Cullen author page)
For other poets, the attitude towards great Romantic poets and writers like Shakespeare was a little more irreverent.
12022-01-10T15:32:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "A Little Dreaming" (Full Text) (1913)3plain2023-12-20T13:41:33-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T09:18:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "For Paul Laurence Dunbar" (1925)3plain2023-05-30T10:02:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-22T10:47:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Eloise A. Bibb, "Eliza In Uncle Tom's Cabin)" (1895)2plain2024-01-11T06:35:56-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T09:18:00-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "For Hazel Hall, American Poet"2plain2023-12-20T12:47:55-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-17T13:00:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frances E.W. Harper, "Eliza Harris" (1853/1854)2Poem by Frances E.W. Harper first published in Frederick Douglass' Paper, December 1853plain2024-06-26T08:07:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-23T20:14:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Hubert Harrison, "The Black Man's Burden" (1915)2plain2024-04-23T20:29:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-12T13:10:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Marie Brown Frazier, "To Langston Hughes" (1928)1plain2024-04-12T13:10:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-19T09:09:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1H. Cordelia Ray, "Sonnets" (1893)1Small collection of Sonnets by H. Cordelia Ray, Self-published in New Yorkplain2024-06-19T09:09:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-08T13:56:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Thomas Fortune, "Edgar Allen Poe" (1905)1plain2024-02-08T13:56:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-12-20T13:02:05-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Dream and the Song" (1922)1plain2023-12-20T13:02:05-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1