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 |
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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:
1936-2010 |  | Admonitions
Good Times
Memory
Seeker of Visions
There is a Girl Inside | | the thirty eighth year |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Gorman, Amanda:
b.1998 |  | The Hill We Climb |
Hayden, Robert:
1913-1980 |  | Frederick Douglass
Monet's Waterlilies
Night, Death, Mississippi
The Prisoners
Those Winter Sundays | | The Whipping |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Madgett, Naomi Long:
1923-2020 |  | Alabama Centennial
Midway
Phillis |
Margetson, George Reginald:
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 |
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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 |