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Afro-American Poetry

Compiled and Edited by Alan L. Joplin

African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology, Joan R. Sherman.

African-American Poets (Collective Biographies), Michael R. Strickland.

Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic, Houston A. Baker Jr.
American Negro Poetry
, Arna Wendell Bontemps.

American Negro Poetry: An Anthology, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Arna Bontemps.
Avalanche : Poems
, Quincy Troupe.
Big Towns, Big Talk
, Patricia Smith.
The Black Back-Ups: Poetry by Kate Rushin
, Kate Rushin.

Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 746-80, Erlene Stetson.

The Block, Langston Hughes et al.

The Book of American Negro Poetry, James Weldon, Ed. Johnson, James Johnson.

Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse, Walter Dean Myers.

Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea: Poems, Joyce Carol Thomas, Floyd Cooper.

Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties, Countee Cullen.

Close to Death, Patricia Smith.
Come Sunday
, Nikki Grimes, Michael Bryant.
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
, Langston Hughes et al.
Echoes Across a Thousand Hills
, Amelia Blossom Pegram et al.

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People, Nikki Giovanni et al.

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans, Michael S. Harpe et al.

Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience, Dorothy S. Strickland et al.

Followers of the North Star: Rhymes About African America Heroes, Heroines, and Historical Times (Many Voices, One Song), Susan Altman et al.
From a Child's Heart
, Nikki Grimes, Brenda Joysmith.
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
, Clarence Major.
The Genie in the Jar
, Nikki Giovanni, et al.
Gingerbread Days: Poems
, Joyce Carol Thomas, Floyd Cooper.

Here to Dare: 0 Gay Black Poets, Arthur T. Wilson, John D. Williams, Robert Westley, Harold McNeil Robinson, Craig A. Reynolds, Steve Langley, Assotto Saint.

Homegirls and Handgrenades, Sonia Sanchez.

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems (Reading Rainbow Series), Eloise Greenfield.

Clouds and Sunshine (African American Women Writers, Sarah Lee Brown-Fleming, Jacquelyn Y. McLendon.

How Sweet the Sound: African-American Songs for Children, Wade Hudson et al.

How the War in the Streets Is Won: Poems on the Quest of Love and Faith, Gerald Early.
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans
, Arnold Adoff.
I Fly Like a Bird
, Leonard A. Slade.
I Wanna Be the Kinda Father My Mother Was
, Omanii Abdullah.
In Defense of Mumia
, S. E. Anderson et al.

In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry, E. Ethelbert Miller, Terrance Cummings.
Jazz Poetry Anthology
, Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa.

Keep on Singing: A Ballad of Marian Anderson, Myra Cohn Livingston, Samuel Byrd.
Langston Hughes (Modern Critical Views
), Harold Bloom.
Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem
, Faith Berry.

Langston Hughes: Great American Poet (Great African Americans Series), Patricia McKissack, et al.

Life In A Nut Shell, Alan L. Joplin.

The Life: The Lore and Folk Poetry of the Black Hustler, Dennis Wepman et al.

Make a Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets, Cornelius Van Wright et al.

Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning (A Gateway Biography), Sarah E. King.

Meet Danitra Brown, Nikki Grimes, Floyd Cooper.

Milking Black Bull: Gay Black Poets, Alden Reimonenq et al.

My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry, Arnold Adoff.

Nathaniel Talking (Writers and Readers), Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist.

Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices (Freedom Organizing Series, #6), Audre Lorde.

Negro: An Anthology, Nancy Cunard, Hugh Ford,

Night on Neighborhood Street, Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist,

Once Again, Alan L. Joplin.

Of A Past Life, Alan L. Joplin.

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, Davida Adedjouma et al.

The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times (Vintage Classics), Langston Hughes.

Pass It on: African-American Poetry for Children, Wade Hudson, Floyd Cooper.

Poems of a Son, Prayers of a Father, Matthew L. Watley, William D. Watley.

Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave, Phillis Wheatley.

The Poetry of Black America; Anthology of the 0th Century, Arnold Adoff.

A Rock Against the Wind : African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion, Lindsay Patterson, Ruby Dee.

Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected Poems (0th Century Classics), James Weldon Johnson.

The Second Set: The Jazz Anthology (The Jazz Poetry Anthology , Vol ) Vol , Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa.

The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Fowler.

Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, Maureen Honey, Nellie Y. McKay.

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems, Nikki Giovanni.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre. Lorde.

Some of the Days of Everett Anderson, Lucille Clifton, Evaline Ness.

Soul Looks Back in Wonder, Tom Feelings.

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Cyrus Cassells.

Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, Daniel J. Wideman, Rohan B. Preston.

Spin a Soft Black Song, Nikki Giovanni.

'Twas the Night B'Fore Christmas: An African-American Version, Melodye Rosales, Clement C. Moore.

The Weather That Kills: Poems, Patricia Spears Jones.

Work of the Afro American Woman (Schomburg Library of th Century Black Women Writers), N.F. Mossell, Joanne Braxton.

Wounded in the House of a Friend, Sonia Sanchez.

3 Women Black, Phyllis J. Sloan et al.

Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men. Naomi L. Madgett, Carl Owens.

African-American ABC, Ashley Bryan.
America's First Negro Poet: The Complete Works
, Jupiter Hammon.

Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama (Contributions in Afro American and African Studies), Femi Euba. .

The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes, R. Baxter Miller. Autumn Love Cycle (The Black Heritage Library Collection), Georgia Johnson.

Black American Poetry Since 44; A Preliminary Checklist, Frank Deodene.

Black Chant : Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture), Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
The Black Family: Towards More Self-Love
, Asher Ledwidge.
Black Men Still Singing
, Maurice W. Britts et al.
Black Poets
, Dudley Randall.
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women
, Erlene, Stetson.
The Blacker the Berry: Poems
, Joyce Carol Thomas, Brenda Joysmith.

The Blacker the Berry, Joyce Carol Thomas, Brenda Joysmith.

The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics, Eric Sackheim, Jonathan Shahn.

Blues Lyric Poetry An Anthology, Michael Taft.

The Book of Lives, Sherrilynn Posey.

The Brass Bed and Other Stories, Pearl Cleage.

Broadside Annual 73, Jill Witherspoon Boyer.

Bronze: A Book of Verse, Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson.

A Burst of Light: Essays, Audre Lorde.

Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing, Gwendolyn Brooks.

Ceremony for Minneconjoux, Brenda Marie Obsey.

Collected Black Women's Poetry (Schomberg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers), Joan Rita Sherman.

The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, Jean Toomer et al.

Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers), Phillis Wheatley, John C. Shields.

Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora Series and Everywomen Series), Gloria T. Hull.

Complete Poems of Frances E. W. Harper (Schomberg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers), F.E. Watkins et al.

Conjure Blues, Jaki Shelton Green.

Consonance and Continuity in Poetry: Detroit Black Writers, Daphne W. Ntiri.

Conversations With the Blues, Paul Oliver.

Critical Essays on Langston Hughes (Critical Essays on American Literature), Edward J. Mullen.

Crowning Glory, Joyce Carol Thomas, Brenda Joysmith.

Danitra Brown Leaves Town, Nikki Grimes, Floyd Cooper.

Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners, Angela Jackson.

Do Black Men Cry?: An Anthology of Poetry, Terryll K. Tendle, Albert McClure.

Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era (Music in American Life), Jeff Todd Titon.

Ebony Rhythm: An Anthology of Contemporary Negro Verse, Beatrice M. Murphy.

Echoes Across a Thousand Hills, Amelia Blossom Pegram, Selma Waldman.

Experimental Love: Poetry. Cheryl Clarke.

Fast Talk, Full Volume: An Anthology of African-American Poetry, Alan Spears.

A Few Miles Above Shanklin Alley, Helen Donalene Smith Cotton, Helen Smith Cotton.

The Forerunners: Black Poets in America, Woodie, Jr. King.

From the Pyramids to the Projects : Poems of Genocide and Resistance
, Askia M. Toure.

Glowchild, and Other Poem, Ruby Dee.

Griefs of Joy: Anthology of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry for Students, Eugene B. Redmond.

Groundwork: Selected Poems of Haki R, Madhubu, Haki R. Madhubuti.

Gurus and Griots, C. Jeanean Gibbs..

Hand Dance, Wanda Coleman.

Harlem: A Poem, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers.

Heart of a Woman (The Black Heritage Library Collection), Georgia Johnson,

Heart of a Woman and Other Poems, Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson, George D. Johnson.

Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews, D.H. Melhem.

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems, Eloise Greenfield.

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans, Arnold Adoff et al.

I'm Off to See the Goddamn Wizard, Alright, Sdiane Bogus.

Index to Poetry by Black American Women (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies, No 1), Dorothy Hilton Chapman.

Intro to Fine, Adele Stephanie Sebastian, Megan Hodges.

It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs, Sonia Sanchez.

It's Raining Laughter, Nikki Grimes, Myles Pinkney.

Jazz Poetry: From the 0s to the Present (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, No. 44), Sascha Feinstein.

Jazz Poetry Anthology, Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa.

Jonestown and Other Madness, Pat Parker.

Langston Hughes: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Afro-American and African Studies), Thomas A. Mikolyzk.

Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary), Henry Louis, Jr. Gates et al.

Vibes from the Scribes, The Last Poets.

Laughter of the Witch and Other Known Poems, Red Jordan Arobateau.

Life According to Motown, Patricia Smith.

The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lida Keck Wiggins, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

The Life of Langston Hughes: I Too, Sing America Vol 2, Arnold Rampersad.

Living As A Lesbian, Cheryl Clarke.

Lodestar and Other Night Lights/Poems, Nagueyalti Warren.

Love Poems, Nikki Giovanni.

Lyrics of Lowly Life, Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Maafa: When Night Becomes a Lion, Martha M. Vertreace.

Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker, Pat Parker.

Nathaniel Talking, Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist.

Negrito : Negro Dialect Poems of the Southwest (Black Heritage Library Collection), John M. Brewer, Tom Smith.

Nine Black Poets, Robert Baird, Comp. Shuman.

The Parade, Rebera E. Foston.

Piece of Time (Crimson Edge Chapbook), Carrie Allen McCray.

The Polemics of Poetry: The Harlem Renaissance and Sixties in Retrospect (Studies in African and African-American Culture, Vol 8), Margaret Ann Reid.

Positive Passage: Everyday Kwanzaa Poems, Johnnierenee Nia Nelson.

Postscripts, Carl Cook.

Pride and Promise: The Harlem Renaissance (Perspectives on History Series), Kathryn T. Cryan-Hicks.

The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets, Assoto Saint.

Sassy Jazz and Slo' Draggin' Blues: Music in the Poetry of Langston Hughes (American University Studies, Series Xxic, American Literature, Vol 36), Pat E. Bonner.

The Second Set: The Jazz Anthology (The Jazz Poetry Anthology , Vol 1 ), Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa.

Songs for My Fathers, Gary Smith.

Songs of Jubilee, Sam Cornish.

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Cyrus Cassells.

Spin a Soft Black Song, Nikki Giovanni.

Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 86), Joanne V. Gabbin.

This Road Since Freedom: Collected Poems by C. Eric Lincoln, C. Eric Lincoln.

Thomas W Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes, Thomas W. Talley.

Through Ebony Eyes, Members of the Detroit Black Writers Guild.

The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home: Poems and Photographs, Esthe Iverem.

To Make a Poet Black, J. Saunders Redding, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates

Uncle's South China Sea Blue Nightmare, Lamont B. Steptoe.

Voices in the Poetic Tradition (African-American Women Writers, Clara Ann Thompson et al.

Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems, Quincy Troupe.

The Whipping Song, Leonard A., Jr. Slade.

Wild Meat (Lost Roads No 30), Carolyn Beard Whitlow.

Woman in the Moon, Sdiane Bogus.

Words from an Unchained Mind, Steven Whitehurst.

The Work of the Afro-American Woman (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Mrs. Mossell et al.


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