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
12023-06-26T07:06:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frances E.W. Harper, "Idylls of the Bible" (1901)6plain2024-06-26T12:42:32-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-01-08T09:30:00-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Mary, Mother of Christ" (1924)4plain2024-05-15T11:58:55-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-01-09T13:46:28-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation" (1920)4In "The New Negro: an Interpretation" (1925)plain2022-12-13T13:25:54-05:0012/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T09:10:23-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "For an Unsuccessful Sinner" (1925)3plain2024-07-09T16:21:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-14T16:15:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Hymn to the Peoples" (1911)3plain2022-08-09T10:02:10-04:0008/01/1911Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-10T15:32:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "A Little Dreaming" (Full Text) (1913)3plain2023-12-20T13:41:33-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-14T10:19:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)3plain2024-05-04T07:56:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-10T08:39:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "Ma Lord" (1927)2plain2024-05-06T11:49:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:22:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "The Jim Crow Car" (1911)2plain2024-07-26T14:13:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-10T09:53:36-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Esther A. Yates “Fettered Liberty” (1915)2plain2024-05-15T11:30:11-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-07-11T11:52:37-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Langston Hughes, "The Last Feast of Belshazzar" (1923)2plain2024-05-02T13:47:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:32:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ethel Caution-Davis (Ethel M. Caution), "A Man" (1916)2plain2024-06-13T10:45:31-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-24T11:17:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "America" (1911)2plain2024-06-23T08:04:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:15:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)" (1925)2plain2024-04-21T12:31:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-02T10:20:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joseph S. Cotter, "The Prophet" (1920)2plain2024-05-03T15:04:00-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T10:05:29-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know" (1925)2plain2024-07-09T14:26:20-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-07-19T09:13:27-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1George Marion McClellan, "Poems" (1895)2plain2023-05-19T10:30:46-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-13T09:42:58-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "The Teacher" (1911)2plain2022-03-14T10:20:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T13:36:45-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Otto Bohanan, "God Gave Us Song" (1918)2plain2024-05-04T08:25:37-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-12-13T13:40:28-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "Let My People Go" (1927)1plain2022-12-13T13:40:28-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-19T16:18:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Edward Smyth Jones, "A Song of Thanks" (1920)1plain2022-08-19T16:18:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-13T13:44:13-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "The Judgment Day" (1927)1plain2022-12-13T13:44:13-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-22T07:45:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1B.B. Church, "In This Hour" (1919)1plain2022-05-22T07:45:41-04:0002/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:30:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Katherine Gillard, "Just a Little Tired" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T07:30:17-04:0003/01/1916Amardeep 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
12023-05-24T11:33:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Marching to Conquest" (1911)1plain2023-05-24T11:33:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-10-11T11:53:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Egbert Martin (Leo), "The Negro Village" (1883)1plain2024-10-11T11:53:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-03-06T10:37:20-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "The New Day" (1922)1plain2023-03-06T10:37:20-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-05-17T13:12:09-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Frances E.W. Harper, "The Syrophenecian Woman" (1854)1plain2024-05-17T13:12:09-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:52:00-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ida B. Luckie, "Retribution" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T07:52:00-04:00Amardeep 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
12024-04-21T08:28:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Jonathan H. Brooks, "A Student I Know" (1927)1plain2024-04-21T08:28:19-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-16T09:04:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Crucifixion" (1925)1plain2022-08-16T09:04:22-04:0010/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-12T10:20:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "The Creed of the Slave" (19151plain2022-07-12T10:20:18-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:28:29-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Soul's Easter" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:28:29-04:0004/01/1925Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-15T07:56:35-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lucian B. Watkins, "To Our Friends" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T07:56:35-04:0009/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T13:21:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Lines Written in Jerusalem" (1927)1plain2023-05-09T13:21:55-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-12T10:23:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Fenton Johnson, "The Soul of Boston" (1915)1plain2022-07-12T10:23:51-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-07T12:59:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "Noah Built the Ark" (1927)1plain2023-05-07T12:59:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poems in Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923)1plain2022-01-14T12:45:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-05T09:49:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Effie Lee Newsome, "Cantabile" (1925)1plain2022-08-05T09:49:15-04:0012/01/1925Amardeep 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
12022-06-15T08:01:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Little One" (1916)1plain2022-06-15T08:01:04-04:0010/01/1916Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-28T15:21:39-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Mary J. Washington, "Peace on Earth" (1919)1plain2022-07-28T15:21:39-04:0001/01/1919Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T06:55:10-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "Treasured Moments" (1899)1plain2023-05-09T06:55:10-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-27T18:14:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Robert J. Laurence, "The Christmas Sermon" (1912)1plain2022-05-27T18:14:30-04:0012/01/1912Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T07:33:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Mate" (1916)1plain2022-06-24T07:33:17-04:0011/01/1916Amardeep 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
12024-07-11T13:06:04-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45T. Bolden Steward, "The Nativity" (1902)1plain2024-07-11T13:06:04-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-04-23T12:28:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Alvira Hazzard, "The Penitent" (1928)1plain2024-04-23T12:28:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-03-15T10:44:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)1plain2022-03-15T10:44:53-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-13T13:24:35-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "Listen Lord: A Prayer" (1927)1plain2022-12-13T13:24:35-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T07:11:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Olivia Ward Bush Banks, "The Walk to Emmaus" (1899)1plain2023-05-09T07:11:54-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-30T07:40:24-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Weldon Johnson, "Father, Father Abraham" (1913)1plain2022-05-30T07:40:24-04:0002/01/1913Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-06-14T08:50:24-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Ralph W. Tyler, "A Prayer" (1907)1plain2024-06-14T08:50:24-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-24T07:42:43-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Final Strain" (1917)1plain2022-06-24T07:42:43-04:0001/01/1917Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-11T13:17:07-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Daniel Webster Davis, "I Can Trust" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:17:07-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-05-17T11:37:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Daniel Webster Davis, "Light in Darkness" (1895)1plain2022-05-17T11:37:42-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford1plain2022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-11T13:18:21-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Daniel Webster Davis, "I Can Trust" (1903)1plain2024-07-11T13:18:21-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12022-03-14T10:28:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Leslie Pinckney Hill, "In the Still Night" (1917)1plain2022-03-14T10:28:57-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-14T13:36:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Jessie Fauset, "The Return" (1919)1plain2022-07-14T13:36:26-04:0001/01/1919Amardeep 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
12022-06-10T09:13:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Robert J. Laurence, "The Christmas Sermon" (1912)1plain2022-06-10T09:13:05-04:0012/01/1912Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-07-23T07:37:17-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Poems" (1921)1plain2022-07-23T07:37:17-04:0005/01/1921Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T12:07:25-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45Peter E. Browne, "Content With My Own Calling" (1909)1plain2024-07-12T12:07:25-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-04-26T07:30:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1William Stanley Braithwaite, "Easter Day" (1901)1plain2024-04-26T07:30:01-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-18T10:13:52-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Dawn" (1904)1plain2022-08-18T10:13:52-04:0005/01/1904Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-07-12T12:30:35-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45T. Thomas Fortune, "The Tree of Tears" (1909)1plain2024-07-12T12:30:35-04:00Sarah Thompsone3d3ad1a94808ed1bf8d547ed195e5acd8b63d45
12024-04-26T07:48:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Daniel Webster Davis, "A Rose" (1895)1plain2024-04-26T07:48:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-18T10:35:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Peace of God" (1904)1plain2022-08-18T10:35:48-04:0006/01/1904Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1