African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
(Book)

Contains selections from 'Les Cenelles' compiled by Régine Latortue, first published in 1845.

Featuring works by (in alphabetical order): Chris Abani, Hanif Abdurraqib, Elizabeth Acevedo, Ai, Elizabeth Alexander, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Will Alexander, Samuel Allen, Maya Angelou, Russell Atkins, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Benjamin Banneker, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), George Barlow, Gerald Barrax, Quan Barry, Paul Beatty, James Madison Bell, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Joshua Bennett, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Arna Bontemps, William Stanley Braithwaite, Kamau Brathwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jericho Brown, Sterling A. Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Julia de Burgos, Darrell Burton, Olivia Ward Bush, Cyrus Cassells, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Benjamin Clark, Tiana Clark, Carrie Williams Clifford, Lucille Clifton, Anita Scott Coleman, Wanda Coleman, Sam Cornish, James D. Corrothers, Jayne Cortez, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr., Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr., Mae V. Cowdery, Countee Cullen, Waring Cuney, DéLana R. A. Dameron, Margaret Danner, Kyle Dargan, Frank Marshall Davis, Kwame Dawes, Clarissa Scott Delany, Toi Derricotte, Joel Dias-Porter [AKA DJ Renegade], Ralph Dickey, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Melvin Dixon, Owen Dodson, Dominique Christina, Rita Dove, David ["Dave"] Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Dumas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Camille Dungy, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mari Evans, Eve L. Ewing, Sarah Webster Fabio, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Julia Fields, Nikky Finney, Calvin Forbes, Sarah Louisa Forten, Vievee Francis, Ross Gay, Danielle Legros Georges, Christopher Gilbert, Nikki Giovanni, Aracelis Girmay, C. S. Giscombe, Lorna Goodison, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Angelina Weld Grimké, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Nicolás Guillén, Forrest Hamer, Jupiter Hammon, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Michael S. Harper, Duriel E. Harris, Walter Everette Hawkins, Robert Hayden, Terrance Hayes, Josephine D. Heard, Essex Hemphill, David Henderson, Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Calvin Hernton, Sean Hill, Harmony Holiday, Frank Horne, George Moses Horton, Langston Hughes, Erica Hunt, Ishion Hutchinson, Gary Jackson, Major Jackson, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Tyehimba Jess, Eva A. Jessye, Ted Joans, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Gayl Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Saeed Jones, A. Van Jordan, June Jordan, Allison Joseph, Bob Kaufman, Douglas Kearney, John Keene, Sybil Kein, Donika Kelly, Dolores Kendrick, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Etheridge Knight, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Rickey Laurentiis, Robin Coste Lewis, Audre Lorde, Nathaniel Mackey, Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), Clarence Major, George R. Margetson, Mariposa, Dawn Lundy Martin, Adrian Matejka, Agnes Maxwell-Hall, Shara McCallum, Shane McCrae, Colleen J. McElroy, Claude McKay, Tony Medina, Anis Mojgani, Aja Monet, Myra Estelle Morris, Tracie Morris, Thylias Moss, Fred Moten, Harryette Mullen, John Murillo, Pauli Murray, Larry Neal, Marilyn Nelson, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gloria C. Oden, Myron O'Higgins, Gregory Pardlo, Morgan Parker, Raymond R. Patterson, Willie Perdomo, Carl Phillips, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Pedro Pietri, Oliver Pitcher, Lucia Mae Pitts, Ann Plato, Sterling D. Plumpp, Esther Popel, N. H. Pritchard, Khadijah Queen, Dudley Randall, Camille Rankine, Claudia Rankine, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Andy Razaf, Charles L. Reason, Ishmael Reed, Justin Phillip Reed, Roger Reeves, Ed Roberson, Carolyn Rodgers, Alison C. Rollins, Kate Rushin, Primus St. John, Sonia Sanchez, Gil Scott-Heron, Nicole Sealey, Tim Seibles, Charif Shanahan, Ntozake Shange, Reginald Shepherd, Evie Shockley, Safiya Sinclair, Clint Smith, Danez Smith, Lucy E. Smith, Patricia Smith, Tracy K. Smith, A. B. Spellman, Anne Spencer, Sharan Strange, Sekou Sundiata, Lucy Terry, Lorenzo Thomas, Eloise Bibb Thompson, Priscilla Jane Thompson, Samantha Thornhill, Melvin B. Tolson, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Quincy Troupe, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, George B. Vashon, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Anthony Walton, Lucian B. Watkins, Tom Weatherly, Afaa Michael Weaver, Phillis Wheatley, Simone White, James M. Whitfield, Albery A. Whitman, Phillip B. Williams, Saul Williams, Sherley Anne Williams, Jamila Woods, Richard Wright, Al Young, Kevin Young.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1086) and index.

"The forthcoming LOA collection, edited by distinguished poet and scholar of American poetry Kevin Young, will embrace the entire wide-ranging tradition of African American poetry from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present, and will be representative of many styles, schools, periods, and regions. Familiar poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other acknowledged greats will appear alongside less familiar and newly discovered works in a handsomely produced, textually authoritative volume that features photographs of the poets and introductions that provide important historical and literary context for each poet." -- Provided by publisher.