African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

The Crisis


The Crisis was a monthly magazine published by the NAACP, which began publication in 1910. Throughout its early years, the magazine was edited by W.E.B. Du Bois. Between 1919-1926, Jessie Fauset served as its Literary Editor. 

Between 1911 and 1922, the magazine published more than 150 poems by a wide range of authors. Below, you'll find the poems we have digitized thus far that appeared in the magazine. 

 

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  1. Welcome: African American Poetry--a Digital Anthology Amardeep Singh

Contents of this tag:

  1. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "A Sonnet: to the Mantled" (1917/1922)
  2. A Sonnet in Memory of John Brown by Georgia Douglas Johnson
  3. Anne Spencer, "Dunbar" (1922)
  4. Carrie Williams Clifford, "The New Year" (1920)
  5. The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
  6. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "The Teacher" (1911)
  7. James D. Corrothers, "The Black Man's Soul" (1915)
  8. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, "The Freedom of the Free" (1913)
  9. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Gossamer" (1916)
  10. Andrea Razafkeriefo, "In Flanders Fields..." (1920)
  11. Benjamint Griffith Brawley, "Shakespeare" (1915)
  12. Jessie Redmon Fauset, "Rondeau" (1912)
  13. Lucian B. Watkins, "Paul Laurence Dunbar--Poet" (1917)
  14. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, "Sonnet" (1919)
  15. C. Bertram Johnson, "Soul and Star" (1919)
  16. Angelina W. Grimke, "To the Dunbar High School (A Sonnet)" (1917)
  17. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Armageddon" (1915)
  18. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Rain-Mist" (1920)
  19. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Let Me Not Lose My Dream" (1917)
  20. James D. Corrothers, "In the Matter of Two Men" (1915)
  21. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Shadows" (1920)
  22. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Father Love" (1919)
  23. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Shall I Say 'My Son, You Are Branded'?" (1919)
  24. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  25. James Weldon Johnson, "The Black Mammy" (1915)
  26. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Race Dreams" (1920
  27. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "In the Still Night" (1917)
  28. Rosalie Jonas, "The Octoroon Ball" (1911)
  29. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Joseph Pulitzer" (1911)
  30. Charles Bertram Johnson, "Snow" (1920)
  31. Leslie Pinckney Hill, "Vision of a Lyncher" (1912)
  32. Fenton Johnson, "Children of the Sun" (1913)
  33. Josephine T. Washington, "Cedar Hill Saved" (1919)
  34. Profiles of William Stanley Braithwaite in "The Crisis": "Resurrection" (1911)
  35. Lucian B. Watkins, "Ballade to Paul Laurence Dunbar" (1918)
  36. Alston Burleigh, "The Brave Son" (1919)
  37. Bertha Johnston, "I Met A Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)
  38. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Peace" (1916)
  39. William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Vision" (1911)
  40. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913 (1913)
  41. James Weldon Johnson, "The White Witch" (1915)
  42. Angelina W. Grimke, "To Keep The Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke" (1915)
  43. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Tears and Kisses" (1917)
  44. W.E.B. Du Bois, "A Hymn to the Peoples" (1911)
  45. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Calling Dreams" (1920)
  46. Anne Spencer, "Before the Feast of Shushan (Esther I)" (1920)
  47. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "My Boy" (1917)
  48. W.E.B. Du Bois, "In God's Gardens" (1912)
  49. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Afterglow" (1920)
  50. Arthur Tunnell, "On Segregation" (1914)
  51. Carrie Williams Clifford, "An Easter Message" (1920)
  52. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Guardianship" (1917)
  53. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Burden of Black Women" (1914)
  54. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Again it is the Vibrant May" (1918)
  55. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Prejudice" (1919)
  56. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Hope" (1917)
  57. W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Christmas Prayers of God" (1914)
  58. B.B. Church, "In This Hour" (1919)
  59. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Attar" (1920)
  60. Carrie Williams Clifford, "Spring" (1915)
  61. Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Mother" (1917)
  62. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Unrest" (1920)
  63. B. Harrison Peyton, "Lo, the Dusk-Born Daughter!" (1916)
  64. James D. Corrothers, "At the Closed Gate of Justice" (1913)