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African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology Main Menu Full Text Collection: Books Published by African American Poets, 1870-1929 Long list of 100+ full texts books of poetry available on this "Anthology" Author Pages: Bios and Full Text Collections List of African American poets on African American Periodical Poetry (1900-1928) A collection of African Amerian Periodical Poetry, mostly focused on 1900-1928 Areas of Interest: Topics and Themes African American Poetry: Anthologies of the 1920s Poetry by African American Women (1890-1930): A Reader and Guide Open access textbook introducing readers to Poetry by Black Women Exploring Datasets related to African American poetry About This Site: Mission Statement, Contributors, and Recent Updates An account of the history and evolution of this site by the site editor. Further Reading / Works Cited

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This page links to collections by African American poets who are less well-known today, or to collections by well-known figures not primarily known for their poetry.

Some figures had complex heritage; Ada Isaacs Menken, for instance, is said to be of mixed New Orleans creole heritage (though there is admittedly some uncertainty about her ancestry, and she did not identify as Black in her public life). Olivia Ward Bush-Banks was of mixed African American and Montaukett (Montauk) ancestry. However, for all of the materials included here we have taken efforts to validate the heritage of the authors included.

While the whole books will perhaps mainly be of interest to readers with a deep interest in this period in African American poetry, many of the poets stick to certain themes, including occasional poetry, dedications to luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and commemorations of the end of the Civil War and Emancipation.

Note: As of May 2022, several of these files need additional proofreading and formatting. Many derive from scanned images that have only been imperfectly rendered into plain text via OCR software.

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