African-American Poets

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

African-American poetry and art take wing and soar in this collection compiled by Belinda Rochelle.With work that spans the nineteenth century thro...

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the pres...

Reducere. In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in th...

Reducere. "Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the mo...

Reducere. From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known ...

Gladiola Garden is a beautiful collection of poems written by Effie Lee Newsome. One of the first African American poets who wrote primarily for ch...

Gladiola Garden is a beautiful collection of poems written by Effie Lee Newsome. One of the first African American poets who wrote primarily for ch...

Reducere. "Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by ""New York Times ""bestselling author Nikki Giovanni" Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giov...

Reducere. A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature.In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X W...

Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cove...

Gold Pen AwardsBum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, an...

An anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Audre LordeAuthor: Pat ParkerEditor: Julie R. EnszerLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQI...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia's third poetry collection, [ELEGIES], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism and...

Reducere. This is an anthology of poems by outstanding poets of diverse backgrounds (age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality, etc.) fro...

Reducere. "The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recen...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trad...

DescriptionThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, an...

Reducere. Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series...

Reducere. Few poets have as much to tell us about the intricate relationship between the African American past and present as Jay Wright. His poems weave a r...

Reducere. With 200, 000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), ...

Reducere. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. PRIME: POETRY & CONVERSATION is a first-of-its-kind document of poetry and ong...

Reducere. "One Last Word is the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The CrossoverFrom the New York Times bestselling a...

In 2020, a coalition of citizens, organizers, legislators, and educators came together to commemorate the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments by es...

Rosey E. Pool did not live an ordinary life. Among other things, she witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Berlin, tutored Anne Frank, operated in a J...

Reducere. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct h...

Reducere. Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) is a collection of poems by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at a turning point...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

Reducere. Three feminist, social activist Dominican poets speak for the disenfranchised against a background of Caribbean history.About author(s): Aida Carta...

DescriptionA View from The East represents a second edition built upon expanded archival research and a contextualizing of the organization within ...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers, " historical and contemporary, and also the authors o...

Reducere. Poetry. Drama. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. "Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against b...

DescriptionInspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutali...

Reducere. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that state-sanctioned segregation of pub...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Reducere. Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary ...

Reducere. Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky's rising Affrilachian literary stars.Bernard Clay's autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtap...

Reducere. The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America (2021) is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals, arti...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain def...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-o...

Reducere. This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

A joyfully poetic board book that delivers an ode to African American girls and the beauty of their curls. Me Morning Mirror Smile Shine big hair l...