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
12022-05-27T18:18:58-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Road to the Bow" (1913)4plain2024-05-03T14:06:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-06T10:16:06-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)4plain2024-01-26T16:59:49-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-14T09:57:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Josephine Heard, "Morning Glories" (Full Text) (1890)4Collection of Poems by Josephine D. Henderson Heard (sometimes "Josie D. Henderson Heard" or "Josie Heard")plain2024-07-09T16:53:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:16:40-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Boy" (1923)3plain2024-04-21T12:38:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-15T10:29:06-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Angelina Weld Grimke, "The Black Finger" (1923)3Also known as Angelina W. Grimke, Angelina Grimkeplain2024-07-16T16:48:10-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-06T10:13:07-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "As I Grew Older" (1926)3plain2024-01-09T11:59:55-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-06T10:30:45-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark Peoples" (1924)3plain2022-08-04T12:24:47-04:0006/01/1924Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T13:54:34-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)3plain2022-08-16T12:35:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T16:24:39-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edward S. Silvera, "Jungle Taste" (1926)3Also known as Edward Silveraplain2024-07-14T16:19:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:55:53-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The White City" (1921)2plain2024-05-12T20:08:29-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:15:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)2plain2024-05-03T14:02:59-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T09:20:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Annette Brown, "The Wishing Game" (1920)2plain2024-07-26T14:17:17-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-05-30T07:45:43-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "Up! Sing the Song" (1913)2plain2024-05-03T14:09:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-13T11:06:49-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Richard Bruce (Bruce Nugent), "Shadow" (1925)2Published as "Silhouette" in "Caroling Dusk"plain2024-06-28T10:30:57-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-05-30T08:33:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "Listen, O Isles!" (1914)2plain2024-05-03T14:16:23-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:34:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)2plain2023-05-25T20:33:31-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:32:55-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks" (1925)2plain2024-07-09T14:12:33-04:00Sarah 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
12022-05-20T10:03:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)2plain2022-05-20T10:04:01-04:0010/01/1915Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-26T15:56:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1J.W. Work, "It's Great to Be a Problem" (1920)2plain2022-05-26T15:57:20-04:0011/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-09T07:18:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edward S. Silvera, "Color" (1927)2Also known as Edward Silveraplain2024-07-14T16:20:45-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:46:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)2plain2024-05-04T07:45:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T10:05:29-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)2plain2024-07-09T14:26:20-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-05-21T07:11:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Andrea Razafkeriefo, "In Flanders Fields..." (1920)2plain2022-05-21T07:18:03-04:0007/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-23T07:37:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)1plain2022-07-23T07:37:17-04:0005/01/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T08:01:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T08:01:04-04:0010/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-11T15:06:10-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Arna Bontemps, "God Give to Men" (1925)1plain2022-07-11T15:06:10-04:0006/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T07:40:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)1plain2022-06-24T07:40:56-04:0001/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-18T14:27:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)1plain2022-05-18T14:27:38-04:0008/01/1915Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-13T09:21:39-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)1plain2022-12-13T09:21:39-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T15:13:24-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Clara Burrill Bruce, "We Who Are Dark" (1918)1plain2022-07-28T15:13:24-04:0012/01/1918Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-20T09:19:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)1plain2022-05-20T09:19:56-04:0012/01/1913Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T09:18:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethel Trew Dunlap, "Four Million Strong" (1921)1plain2022-07-21T09:18:53-04:0003/05/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T09:33:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Yetta Kay Stoddard, "E Pluribus Unum" (1920)1plain2022-07-22T09:33:22-04:0003/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-16T10:13:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edward S. Silvera, "White Vanity" (1926)1plain2022-08-16T10:13:57-04:0007/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-16T09:34:00-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Old Black Men" (1927)1plain2022-12-16T09:34:00-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-04T13:52:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Son" (1924)1plain2022-08-04T13:52:42-04:0011/01/1924Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-20T09:25:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "The White Witch" (1915)1plain2022-05-20T09:25:21-04:0003/01/1915Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T09:39:39-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "A Kindergarten Song" (1920)1plain2022-07-22T09:39:39-04:0004/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-05T11:39:30-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1J. Harvey L. Baxter, "Paint Me A God" (1927)1plain2024-03-05T11:39:30-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-12T10:43:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "O Southland!" (1917)1plain2022-07-12T10:43:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)1plain2022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:51:02-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The City's Love by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T09:51:02-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:01:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Anita Scott Coleman, "The Colorist" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:01:17-04:0005/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-15T14:33:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)1plain2022-07-15T14:33:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T09:31:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1O.M. Skinner, "Give Me the Rainbow" (1921)1plain2022-07-21T09:31:57-04:0003/05/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T09:41:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Wendell Phillips Gladden, Jr. "May-Queen" (1920)1plain2022-07-22T09:41:05-04:0005/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:34:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)1plain2022-05-17T11:34:34-04:0012/01/1907Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:04:46-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1George Reginald Margetson, "The Surge of Life" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:04:46-04:0003/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
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
12022-08-09T09:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "Children of the Moon" (1920)1plain2022-08-09T09:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T09:40:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1P.M. Claudius de Suze, "Marcus Garvey" (1921)1plain2022-07-21T09:40:54-04:0003/19/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T09:46:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Madeline G. Allison, "Children of the Sun" (1920)1plain2022-07-22T09:46:01-04:0005/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-04T09:48:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Roasalie M. Jonas, "Crowded Out" (1924)1plain2022-08-04T09:48:48-04:0001/01/1924Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Eloise A. Bibb, "In Memoriam Frederick Douglass" (1895)1plain2022-05-17T11:40:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T11:34:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "The Litany of the Dark People" (1927)1plain2023-05-09T11:34:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T11:43:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Unsung Heroes" (1903)1plain2022-07-28T11:43:41-04:00Amardeep 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
12023-05-09T11:42:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "The Ballad of a Brown Girl" (1927)1plain2023-05-09T11:42:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T09:46:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Thomas H. Brooks, "The U.N.I.A." (1921)1plain2022-07-21T09:46:07-04:0003/05/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-15T10:02:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Wallace Thurman, "The Last Citadel" (1926)1plain2022-07-15T10:02:57-04:0004/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-21T09:50:43-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethel Trew Dunlap, "In Respect to Marcus Garvey" (1921)1plain2022-07-21T09:50:43-04:0003/05/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-22T10:06:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lucian B. Watkins, "Little Black Boy" (1921)1plain2022-07-22T10:06:30-04:0001/01/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-04T12:08:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Walter Everett Hawkins, "Child of the Night" (1924)1plain2022-08-04T12:08:36-04:0004/01/1924Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)1plain2022-08-26T09:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T10:01:13-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1E. Lucien Waithe, "To a Brown Child" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T10:01:13-04:0010/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-20T07:29:21-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "Ah My Race" (1925)1plain2022-07-20T07:29:21-04:0007/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1