Black American Poets

Angelou, Maya:      b.1928		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Men Refusal On the Pulse of Morning   (The Rock Cries Out to Us)     Still I Rise Touched By an Angel
Brooks, Gwendolyn:      1917-2000		The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Corners on the Curving Sky The Sonnet  –  Ballad A Sunset Of The City
Brown, Sterling:      1901-1989		Old Lem Riverbank Blues Slim Greer in Hell
Clifton, Lucille:      b.1936		Admonitions Good Times Memory Seeker of Visions There is a Girl Inside     the thirty eighth year
Corrothers, James:      1869-1917		At the Closed Gate of Justice In the Matter of Two Men
Cullen, Countee:      1903-1946		For a Lady I Know From the Dark Tower Heritage Yet Do I Marvel
Dove, Rita:      b.1952		The Bistro Styx Golden Oldie My Mother Enters the Work Force Parsley Rosa     Sunday Greens Uncle Millet
Dunbar, Paul Laurence:      1872-1906		At the Tavern The Barrier Blue The Forest Greeting The Haunted Oak     The Lawyers' Ways Religion Retort We Wear The Mask
Eady, Cornelius:      b.1954		Buckwheat's Lament Fetchin' Bones Hesitation Blues I'm a Fool to Love You
Fauset, Jessie Redmon:      1882-1961		La Vie C'est la Vie Noblesse Oblige
Hayden, Robert:      1913-1980		Frederick Douglass Monet's Waterlilies Night, Death, Mississippi The Prisoners Those Winter Sundays     The Whipping
Hughes, Langston:      1902-1967		Brass Spittoons Daybreak in Alabama Democracy Harlem - A Dream Deferred I, Too, Sing America     Juke Box Love Song Justice Let America be America again Merry-Go-Round
Johnson, Georgia Douglas:      1880-1966		Autumn Black Woman Love Come and Gone Old Black Men
Johnson, James Weldon:      1871-1938		The Black Mammy Brothers The Creation Father, Father Abraham Fragment Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Mother Night O Black and Unknown Bards To America The White Witch
Madgett, Naomi Long:      b.1923		Alabama Centennial Midway Phillis
Margetson, George Reginald:      b.1877		Every Man has got a Hobby
McKay, Claude:      1891-1948		After the Winter America The Harlem Dancer Harlem Shadows If We Must Die     The Lynching A Prayer To the White Fiends The White House
Nichols, Grace:      b.1950 (From the wider Americas)		The Body Reclining
Trethewey, Natasha:      b.1966		Flounder Storyville Diary
Truth, Sojourner:      1797-1893		Ain't I a Woman?
Walker, Alice:      b.1944		Burial Expect Nothing I Said to Poetry The Old Men Used to Sing We Alone Can Devalue Gold