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African American poetry

Langston Hughes

• April Rain Song
• Juke Box Love Song
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Jazzonia
• I, too, sing America
• Trumpet player

Sterling A. Brown

• Southern Road
• Riverbank Blues
• Cabaret
• Slim Greer in Hell
• Ma Rainey
• Old Lem

Arna Bontemps

• A Black Man Talks of Reaping
• Southern Mansion
• Nocturne of the Wharves
• Reconnaissance
• The Day-Breakers
• Length of Moon

Countee Cullen

• Saturday's Child
• Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
• For a Lady I Know
• Yet Do I Marvel
• From the Dark Tower

Helene Johnson

• Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
• Poem
• A Southern Road
• A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America
• Trees at Night
• Invocation
• Summer Matures
• To an Icicle

Gwendolyn Brooks

• A Sunset of the City
• The Lovers of the Poor
• The Bean Eaters
• Kichenette Building
• To the diaspora
• Sadie and Maud
• The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

Jayne Cortez

• So Long
• Jazz Fan Looks Back
• I am New York City
• There it is
• PUSH BACK THE CASTASTROPHES
• In The Morning

Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Signs of the Times
• Ships that pass in the Night
• Sympathy
• Invitation to Love
• He had his dream
• Toast to Dayton
• Emancipation
• Compensation
• Life's Tragedy
• At the Tavern
• Accountabilty
• Howdy Honey Howdy
• If I Could But Forget
• Summer in the South

Dudley Randall

• A Poet is not a Jukebox
• Ballad of Birmingham

War poems
Nostalgic poems
Feminist poems
African American poems
Latin American poems
Victorian era poems
Romantic poems
Religious poems
Shakespearean Sonnets
Colonial age poems
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