African American Poetry (1870-1926): A Digital AnthologyMain MenuFull Text Collection: Books Published by African American Poets, 1870-1926Author Profiles: Bios and Full Text CollectionsThe Beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance: Overview and Timeline of Key EventsBlack Poetry Before the Harlem Renaissance: Overview and TimelineAfrican American Poetry: A Story Of MagazinesAfrican American Poetry: Anthologies of the 1920sAreas of Interest: Topics and ThemesFurther Reading / Works CitedAmardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-10T10:51:09-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Litany of Atlanta" (1906)4plain2022-07-18T10:59:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:13:32-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet: to the Mantled" (1917)4plain2022-07-02T08:00:30-04:0005/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-06T10:16:06-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "To the Black Beloved" (1925)3plain2022-07-15T09:50:01-04:0012/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-06T10:33:04-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "The White Ones" (1924)3plain2022-07-15T10:59:36-04:0003/01/1924Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
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
12022-05-25T12:03:45-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Virginia P. Jackson, "Africa" (1919)2plain2022-05-25T12:06:18-04:0002/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-25T10:19:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The Hegira by Georgia Douglas Johnson2plain2022-06-10T10:07:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T15:27:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethyl Lewis, "The Optimist" (1920)2plain2022-07-28T15:28:45-04:0001/01/1920Amardeep 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
12022-01-05T15:15:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The South by Langston Hughes2plain2022-01-08T12:25:31-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:40:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lucian B. Watkins “Song of the American Dove” (1916)2plain2022-07-02T07:58:49-04:0006/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-10T09:36:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Cora J. Ball Moten, "A Lullaby" (1914)2plain2022-06-10T09:37:36-04:0010/01/1914Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-30T08:20:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)2plain2022-07-30T08:20:36-04:0007/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-22T07:58:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)1plain2022-05-22T07:58:16-04:0007/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-20T10:29:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson1plain2022-01-20T10:29:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-24T09:07:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Colored Soldiers" (1895)1plain2022-07-24T09:07:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-18T14:21:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)1plain2022-05-18T14:21:53-04:0001/01/1915Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-23T09:28:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)1plain2022-05-23T09:28:12-04:0004/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-20T10:32:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Hope by Georgia Douglas Johnson1plain2022-01-20T10:32:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:18:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:18:12-04:0007/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:34:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Incident (for Eric Walrond) by Countee Cullen1plain2022-01-08T08:34:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)1plain2022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-12T06:45:22-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1"Afro-American" by Fred White (1900)1plain2022-03-12T06:45:22-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:46:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:46:07-04:0006/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-18T10:23:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)1plain2022-08-18T10:23:12-04:0005/01/1904Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-20T07:42:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)1plain2022-07-20T07:42:41-04:0011/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-25T07:55:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Homing Braves" (1922)1plain2022-06-25T07:55:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford1plain2022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-19T10:56:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Boy" (1917)1plain2022-05-19T10:56:05-04:0010/01/1917Amardeep 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
12022-08-05T16:41:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Courier" (1926)1plain2022-08-05T16:41:32-04:0011/01/1926Amardeep 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
12022-05-17T11:34:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)1plain2022-05-17T11:34:34-04:0012/01/1907Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-19T11:01:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)1plain2022-05-19T11:01:53-04:0010/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T07:40:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edwin J. Morgan, "Rhapsody" (1917)1plain2022-06-24T07:40:56-04:0001/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-02T08:15:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Motherhood" (1922)1plain2022-07-02T08:15:40-04:0010/01/1922Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)1plain2022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-10T09:53:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)1plain2022-06-10T09:53:36-04:0012/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-15T14:33:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" (1895)1plain2022-07-15T14:33:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-14T10:45:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)1plain2022-03-14T10:45:16-04:00Amardeep 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