Recent Updates to the Site
April 2024
Clean-up of Frances E.W. Harper's Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects by Kate Hennessey
Addition of poems from The Messenger, 1927-1928 (edited 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