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