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Sonnet
12022-01-08T08:11:11-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e12136Sonnet Tagplain2024-01-10T14:05:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The sonnet was an important poetic form used by many Black writers during this period, including writers from the older generation (i.e., James Weldon Johnson, Carrie Williams Clifford) as well as younger writers like Claude McKay.
As of January 2024, we have identified and tagged about 63 poems in the anthology as sonnets. There are likely more poems in the collection yet to be tagged. -AS
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12024-01-26T09:31:48-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Poetic Form in African American PoetryAmardeep Singh5plain2024-01-26T16:18:25-05:00Amardeep 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
12022-01-19T13:54:34-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "The Negro Singer" (1913)3plain2022-08-16T12:35:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:05:34-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Lincoln" (1922)3plain2024-01-12T07:09:04-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T08:11:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel" (1925)3plain2024-03-08T13:16:47-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:06:23-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "The New Year" (1920)3plain2022-05-23T09:29:58-04:0004/01/1920Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:04:03-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "I Shall Return" (1922)2plain2023-06-12T15:21:28-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-26T08:00:50-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lewis Alexander, "The Dark Brother" (1927)2plain2024-03-15T14:45:44-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:59:40-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "In Bondage" (1922)2plain2024-03-29T07:37:05-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:06:34-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "On a Primitive Canoe" (1922)2plain2024-03-29T07:44:43-04:00Amardeep 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
12022-07-21T16:21:20-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "From the Dark Tower" (1926)2plain2024-04-13T07:47:37-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-03T12:19:14-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Joseph S. Cotter, Sr., "Shakespeare's Sonnet" (1923)2plain2022-08-03T12:30:10-04:0009/01/1923Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-06T16:07:48-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Helene Johnson, "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem" (1927)2plain2023-06-07T08:29:47-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-06-25T08:00:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Mothers of America" (1922)2plain2024-01-11T08:57:36-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:14:17-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Outcast by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T10:14:17-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T11:58:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "The Love Tree" (1927)1plain2023-05-09T11:58:56-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-08T14:02:01-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Thomas Fortune, "The Elsmeres" (1905)1plain2024-02-08T14:02:01-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-10T08:40:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Sorrow Songs" 1927)1plain2024-03-10T08:40:25-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-16T10:29:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Like a Strong Tree" (1925)1plain2024-04-16T10:29:38-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-08T09:38:58-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1To My Friends by Countee Cullen1plain2022-01-08T09:38:58-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:03:56-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The Gift by Carrie Williams Clifford1plain2022-01-19T11:03:56-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-09T13:19:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "And When I Think" (1927)1plain2023-05-09T13:19:07-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-21T08:22:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Lois Augusta Cuglar, "Consecration" (1927)1plain2024-04-21T08:22:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:20:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Tired Worker" (1922)1plain2022-08-26T09:20:22-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:51:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Wild May by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T09:51:38-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Race-Hate by Carrie Williams Clifford1plain2022-01-19T11:07:50-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T15:45:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Sonnet 1" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T15:45:30-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-15T18:25:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "To One Untrue" (1906)1plain2024-02-15T18:25:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)1plain2022-08-26T09:21:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T09:55:53-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1The White City by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T09:55:53-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-05-16T15:46:14-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Sonnet 2" (1927)1plain2023-05-16T15:46:14-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-12T15:29:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "I Know My Soul" (1922)1plain2023-06-12T15:29:41-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:22:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Birds of Prey" (1922 Version)1plain2022-08-26T09:22:33-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Three Sonnets by Carrie Williams Clifford (1922)1plain2022-01-19T11:17:57-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-12T15:30:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "Birds of Prey" (1922)1plain2023-06-12T15:30:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:02:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Enslaved by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T10:02:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:23:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Castaways" (1922)1plain2022-08-26T09:23:26-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-05T11:51:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1George Leonard Allen, "To a Negro Musician" (1927)1plain2024-03-05T11:51:44-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-16T07:50:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "A Prayer" (1928)1plain2024-03-16T07:50:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-25T10:47:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Charles Bertram Johnson, "The Cup of Knowledge" (1905)1plain2024-04-25T10:47:12-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-08T13:48:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Thomas Fortune, "Diamond in the Clay" (1905)1plain2024-02-08T13:48:16-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Frederick Douglass" (1917)1plain2022-05-17T11:11:15-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-03-05T12:03:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "A Thorn Forever In the Breast" (1927)1plain2024-03-05T12:03:54-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-04-26T14:28:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James D. Corrothers, "To -------- (A Sonnet)" (1901)1plain2024-04-26T14:28:32-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-08-26T09:35:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Claude McKay, "The Night Fire" (1922)1plain2022-08-26T09:35:04-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-06-05T17:29:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Carrie Williams Clifford, "Mothers of America" (1922)1plain2023-06-05T17:29:49-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12023-08-07T10:06:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Countee Cullen, "Sonnet to Her" (1927)1plain2023-08-07T10:06:40-04:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:09:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1On the Road by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T10:09:59-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-12-13T09:21:39-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1James Edward McCall, "The New Negro" (1927)1plain2022-12-13T09:21:39-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-08T13:56:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Thomas Fortune, "Edgar Allen Poe" (1905)1plain2024-02-08T13:56:21-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12022-01-19T10:13:35-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1Dawn in New York by Claude McKay1plain2022-01-19T10:13:35-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1
12024-02-08T13:58:06-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1T. Thomas Fortune, "Beyond the Veil" (1905)1plain2024-02-08T13:58:06-05:00Amardeep Singhc185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1