Recent Updates to the Site
February 2025
Network Diagram: Visualizing Connections between Editors, Poets, and Magazines in the Harlem Renaissance
January 2025
Countee Cullen, The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929), formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
Zora Neale Hurston, "The First One" (1926), formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929), formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh. With an Introduction by Amardeep Singh
Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928), formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
Jessie Fauset, Plum Bun (1928), formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
July 2024
Poetry by African American Women: A Reader and Guide. Text by Amardeep Singh and Sarah Thompson. An open-access textbook designed to give readers an introduction to many of the key writers and poets in the collection. Organized by decade with sub-sections organized around themes and styles.
New addition. Christina Moody, A Tiny Spark, formatted and edited by Sarah Thompson.
New addition. Myra Viola Wilds, Thoughts of Idle Hours, formatted and edited by Sarah Thompson
New addition. Effie Smith, Rosemary and Pansies, formatted and edited by Sarah Thompson
New addition. Sarah Collins Fernandis, Poems, formatted and edited by Sarah Thompson, based on a print edition at Louisiana State University's Special Collections library
Author Biography of Maurice N. Corbett by Sarah Thompson
Author Biography of Katherine D. Tillman, by Sarah Thompson
New addition. Lizelia A.J. Moorer, Prejudice Unveiled . Formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
New addition. Katherine D. Tillman, Recitations. Formatted and edited by Amardeep Singh
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Aaron Belford Thompson, Morning Songs by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Joshua Henry Jones, Jr., Poems for the Four Seas by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Carrie Law Morgan Figgs, Poetic Pearls by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, Clouds and Sunshine by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Richard Bruce Nugent by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Wallace Thurman by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Frank Smith Horne by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Mary Ashe Lee by Sarah Thompson
Author Bio for Sarah Collins Fernandis by Sarah Thompson
June 2024
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of the Peters Sisters' War Poems (1919) by Sarah Thompson
Newly-added text: editing and proofreading of Prisilla Jane Thompson's Gleanings of Quiet Hours by Amardeep Singh
Newly-added text: editing and proofreading of H. Cordelia Ray's Sonnets by Amardeep Singh
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Frances E.W. Harper's Sketches of Southern Life by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Maggie Pogue Johnson by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Charlotte E. Linden by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Ethel Caution-Davis by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Josephine Heard by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Gertrude Mossell by Sarah Thompson
New Author bio of Priscilla Jane Thompson by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Frances E.W. Harper's Forest Leaves by Amardeep Singh
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Maurice N. Corbett's The Harp of Ethiopia by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Gertrude Mossell's The Work of the Afro-American Woman by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing, and proofreading of Charlotte E. Linden's Scraps of Time by Sarah Thompson
New Author Bio of Mae V. Cowdery by Sarah Thompson
New Author Bio of Mary Weston Fordham by Sarah Thompson
May 2024
New datset! Collected African American Periodical Poetry 1900-1928. Produced by Amardeep Singh and Kate Hennessey in connection with the Mozilla "Responsible Datasets in Context" Grant. Dataset can be viewed and downloaded here.
Formatting, editing and proofreading of Mary Weston Fordham, Magnolia Leaves by Sarah Thompson
Formatting, editing and proofreading of Walter Everette Hawkins, Chords and Discords by Sarah Thompson
New detailed Author Bio of Frances E.W. Harper by Kate Hennessey
April 2024
Formatting, editing and proofreading of Frances E.W. Harper's Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects by Kate Hennessey
Addition of poems from The Messenger, 1927-1928 (edited and formatted by Kate Hennessey from page images at Archive.org)
March 2024
Addition of poems from The Crisis, 1928 (edited by Kate Hennessey from page images at Archive.org and HathiTrust)
Addition of poems from The Carolina Magazine, a student-run literary magazine that did special issues on African American poetry in May 1927 and May 1928 (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of poems from Black Opals, a literary magazine published in Philadelphia in 1927-1928 (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of Zora Neale Hurston's early poems in Negro World (1922) (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of poems from The Messenger, 1924 (edited by Amardeep Singh)
Addition of poems from The Crisis, 1927 (edited by Kate Hennessey and Amardeep Singh from page images at Archive.org)
Addition of poems from Opportunity, 1928 (edited by Amardeep Singh from page images at Archive.org)
Addition of poems from Opportunity, 1927 (edited by Kate Hennessey from page images at Archive.org)
Addition of a new Author Bio for Benjamin Griffith Brawley (researched and written by Kate Hennessey)
Addition of a new Author Bio for Elois Bibb / Eloise Bibb Thompson (researched and written by Kate Hennessey)
Traffic update: 15,000 users for February 2024!
February 2024
Addition of part of Georgia Douglas Johnson, An Autumn Love Cycle (Amardeep Singh)
Formatting clean up of Lucian B. Watkins, Voices of Solitude (Kate Hennessey)
January 2024
Formatting clean up of Langston Hughes, Fine Clothes to the Jew (Kate Hennessey)
Addition of Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. Poems of the Four Seas (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of New page collecting Tagged Poetic Forms on the Site (Amardeep Singh)
Grant begins! This spring, we'll be working quite a bit on the site, as a grant from the Mozilla Foundation will make possible the hiring of a Graduate Research Assistant (Kate Hennessey).
Addition of Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (recently out of copyright)
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December 2023
Clean-up of Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
Clean-up of Claude McKay's Harlem Shadows
Belated import of Claude McKay's Constab Ballads and Songs of Jamaica from "Claude McKay's Early Poetry"
November 2023
Proposal submitted to Modnets -- for peer-review
July 2023
Addition of Chester Westfield, The Experiences of Company L, 368th Infantry
Addition of Charles R. Dinkins, Lyrics of Love
June 2023
Addition of "Exploring Datasets in African American Poetry" (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of an Author Bio for Arthur A. Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg) (Miranda Alvarez)
Addition of Arthur A. Schomburg's Bibliographical Checklist of American Negro Poetry (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of Dorothy Porter's North American Negro Poets: a Bibliographical Checklist (Amardeep Singh
Addition of About this Site: Origins and a Mission Statement
Addition of African American Poetry of the Spanish-American War (Tag) (Amardeep Singh)
May 2023
A Note on Historical Language (Amardeep Singh)
Addition of Albery A. Whitman, An Idyl of the South (Amardeep Singh)
January 2023
Addition of Countee Cullen, Ed. Caroling Dusk
Addition of Ebony and Topaz
June 2022
Addition of poems from The Crisis and Opportunity (Amardeep Singh with formatting and clean-up help from Christian Farrior)
January 2022
Creation of this site. Starting points include newly out of copyright texts by Langston Hughes (The Weary Blues) and Countee Cullen (Color), along with Alain Locke's anthology, The New Negro
Also imported collections from Claude Mckay's Early Poetry and Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance