African American Poetry: A Digital AnthologyMain MenuFull Text Collection: Books Published by African American Poets, 1870-1928Long list of 100+ full texts books of poetry available on this "Anthology"Author Pages: Bios and Full Text CollectionsList of African American poets onAfrican American Periodical Poetry (1900-1928)A collection of African Amerian Periodical Poetry, mostly focused on 1900-1928Areas of Interest: Topics and ThemesAfrican American Poetry: Anthologies of the 1920sPoetry by African American Women (1890-1930): A Reader and GuideOpen access textbook introducing readers to Poetry by Black WomenExploring Datasets related to African American poetryAbout This Site: Mission Statement, Contributors, and Recent UpdatesAn account of the history and evolution of this site by the site editor.Further Reading / Works CitedAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-18T16:47:09-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ode to Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)3plain2024-01-12T09:26:23-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-14T07:43:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Josephine Heard, "The Black Samson" (1890)3First published as "The Black Sampson"plain2024-07-12T09:31:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-10T15:32:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "A Little Dreaming" (Full Text) (1913)3plain2023-12-20T13:41:33-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:09:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "On the Road" (1922)3plain2024-07-09T15:08:40-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-01-25T10:19:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Hegira" (1917)3plain2023-05-13T15:04:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:13:35-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Dawn in New York" (1922)2plain2024-07-09T15:13:05-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-07-17T12:16:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of the Smoke" (1907)2plain2022-07-17T12:28:45-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-06T16:07:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" (1927)2plain2023-06-07T08:29:47-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-16T10:48:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ann Lawrence, "Raise the Pullman Men" (1925)2plain2024-04-24T14:02:37-04:0012/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-24T12:06:00-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maggie Pogue Johnson, "The Negro Has a Chance" (1910)2plain2024-06-25T09:48:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-28T11:49:58-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Colonel Charles Young, "A Latter-Day Eden" (1902)2plain2024-04-28T11:54:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-18T14:21:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)2plain2024-05-03T14:13:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:46:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)2plain2024-05-04T07:45:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:19:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Atlantic City Waiter" (1925)2plain2024-07-09T14:10:01-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-06-12T12:31:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maurice N. Corbett, "Negro Labor Changed Dixie" (1914)2plain2024-07-22T16:23:06-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-01-19T10:09:05-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Spring in New Hampshire" (1919) (poem)2plain2024-05-12T12:32:00-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T10:05:29-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)2plain2024-07-09T14:26:20-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12023-06-12T15:28:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Tired Worker" (1919)2plain2024-05-12T12:33:59-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:51:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "Exodus" (1925)2plain2022-08-05T09:53:28-04:0001/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-13T22:08:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Alonzo Milton Skrine, "The Negro's Worth" (1900)1plain2024-04-13T22:08:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)1plain2022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T16:00:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frank Horne, "My Words" (1926)1plain2022-08-05T16:00:30-04:0005/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-12T12:51:08-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Maurice N. Corbett, "Foreign Labor" (1914)1plain2024-06-12T12:51:08-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-27T18:00:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edward S. Silvera, "South Street" (1927)1plain2023-05-27T18:00:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-10T08:15:26-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Quashie to Buccra" (1912)1plain2024-02-10T08:15:26-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:30:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine Gillard, "Just a Little Tired" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T07:30:17-04:0003/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-10T12:15:24-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Powell W. Gibson, "The Diamond Ring" (1907)1plain2024-07-10T12:15:24-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-08-09T09:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)1plain2022-08-09T09:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:43:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Otto Bohanan, "The Washer-Woman" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T07:43:52-04:0006/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T07:40:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)1plain2022-06-24T07:40:56-04:0001/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T12:33:45-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45T. Thomas Fortune, “The Pyramids” (1906)1plain2024-07-12T12:33:45-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-06-26T20:44:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Gladys May Casely-Hayford, "The Serving Girl" (1927)1plain2024-06-26T20:44:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T12:47:40-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Matthew D. Bennett, "Bell Boy in the Clock" (1906)1plain2024-07-12T12:47:40-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-07-11T13:00:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "A Song to a Negro Wash-woman" (1925)1plain2022-07-11T13:00:50-04:0001/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-18T09:34:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Daniel Webster Davis, "The Voice of the Negro" (1904)1plain2022-08-18T09:34:36-04:0002/01/1904Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-12-21T08:10:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "A Labourer's Life Give Me" (1912)1plain2023-12-21T08:10:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-27T16:59:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Allison Davis, "Gospel For Those Who Must" (1928)1plain2024-03-27T16:59:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-26T13:51:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine D. Tillman, "The Worker's Song" (1902)1plain2024-07-26T13:51:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-11T13:39:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lewis Alexander, "The Black Pageant" (1927)1plain2024-04-11T13:39:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-06T16:05:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Jasper Ross, "King Cotton and the Negro" (1914)1plain2022-06-06T16:05:38-04:0009/01/1914Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1