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
12022-01-05T15:00:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "Proem" ["The Negro"] (1922)6Introductory poem in "The Weary Blues" (1926)plain2022-07-11T14:38:52-04:0001/01/1922Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-09T13:36:00-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1"The New Negro" (Essay by Alain Locke) (1925)6plain2022-08-18T14:43:28-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-01-20T10:29:08-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Black Woman" (1922)3plain2023-05-13T14:57:43-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-22T13:27:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Jim Crow" (1910 / 1922)3plain2024-07-26T14:14:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-25T10:19:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Hegira" (1917)3plain2023-05-13T15:04:26-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-03-12T06:45:22-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1"Afro-American" by Charles Frederick White (1900)3plain2024-05-13T11:25:16-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Atlanta's Shame" (1906)3plain2024-07-05T10:09:50-04:00Amardeep 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
12024-03-13T12:36:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James H. Young, "I'll Win" (1927)2plain2024-04-20T15:01:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-01-12T10:05:34-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Rev. Walter H. Brooks, "The 'Jim Crow' Car" (1900)2plain2024-07-26T14:14:47-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T15:27:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethyl Lewis, "The Optimist" (1920)2plain2022-07-28T15:28:45-04:0001/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-20T10:32:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1922)2plain2023-05-13T15:06:59-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-01-08T08:34:24-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Incident (for Eric Walrond)" (1925)2plain2023-05-25T20:33:31-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-05T15:15:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The South by Langston Hughes2plain2022-01-08T12:25:31-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:17:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)2plain2024-06-23T08:04:19-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-06-15T07:40:28-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-05-19T10:59:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1917)2plain2024-03-10T11:55:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:46:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1L. Mattes, "To the Negro" (1925)2plain2024-05-04T07:45:11-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-30T08:20:03-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "If We Must Die" (1919)2plain2022-07-30T08:20:36-04:0007/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:22:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Jim Crow Car" (1911)2plain2024-07-26T14:13:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-11T13:14:17-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:14:17-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-07-11T13:16:05-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45James D. Corrothers, "The Psalm of a Race" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:16:05-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-08-05T09:18:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Thomas R. Reid, Jr., "White 'Civilization'" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:18:12-04:0007/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-11T13:36:13-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45James D. Corrothers, "An Awful Problem Solved" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:36:13-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-03-15T10:44:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)1plain2022-03-15T10:44:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-16T10:45:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1E. Lucien Waithe, "Hymn to America" (1925)1plain2022-08-16T10:45:28-04:0008/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-12T12:08:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Little Peoples" (1919)1plain2024-05-12T12:08:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)1plain2022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-20T07:42:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "A Southern Road" (1926)1plain2022-07-20T07:42:41-04:0011/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-18T10:23:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Henry Davis Middleton, "The Door" (1904)1plain2022-08-18T10:23:12-04:0005/01/1904Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep 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
12022-06-25T07:55:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Homing Braves" (1922)1plain2022-06-25T07:55:02-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T12:54:48-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Rev. Joseph G. Bryant, “Wounded Liberty” (1906)1plain2024-07-12T12:54:48-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
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
12023-06-04T14:19:37-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles D. Clem, "Things to Remember" (1902)1plain2023-06-04T14:19:37-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-22T14:24:23-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Arna Bontemps, "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" (1927)1plain2023-05-22T14:24:23-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-26T13:05:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine D. Tillman, "A Southern Incident" (1902)1plain2024-07-26T13:05:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T16:41:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Courier" (1926)1plain2022-08-05T16:41:32-04:0011/01/1926Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:34:34-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles Frederick White, "To Chicago" (1907)1plain2022-05-17T11:34:34-04:0012/01/1907Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T08:01:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T08:01:04-04:0010/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-19T11:01:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)1plain2022-05-19T11:01:53-04:0010/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-26T13:46:14-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine D. Tillman, "Color" (1902)1plain2024-07-26T13:46:14-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T10:08:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Roscoe C. Jamison, "Negro Soldiers" (19171plain2022-06-24T10:08:36-04:0009/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-10T11:41:42-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Daniel B. Thompson, "A Query" (1907)1plain2024-07-10T11:41:42-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)1plain2022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep 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
12023-06-06T15:52:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., "And What Shall You Say?" (1927)1plain2023-06-06T15:52:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-20T07:19:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Priscilla Jane Thompson, "Address to Ethiopia" (1900)1plain2024-06-20T07:19:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1