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 |