Table of Contents
Introduction
Ai (1947-)
Angelou, Maya (1928-)
Baraka, Amiri (1934-)
Bontemps, Arna (1902-1973)
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000)
Brown, Sterling (1901-1989)
Clifton, Lucille (1936-)
Coleman, Wanda (1946-)
Cortez, Jayne (1936-)
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
Derricotte, Toi (1941-)
Dove, Rita (1952-)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
Eady, Cornelius (1954-)
Evans, Mari (no date-)
Giovanni, Nikki (1943-)
Hammon, Jupiter (1811-1896?)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1824-1911)
Harper, Michael S. (1938-)
Hayden, Robert (1913-1980)
Horton, George Moses (1797-1883?)
Hughes, Langston (1902-1968)
Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1886-1966)
Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
Jordan, June (1936-)
Knight, Etheridge (1931-1991)
Komunyakaa, Yusef (1947-)
Lorde, Audre (1934-1992)
Mackey, Nathaniel (1947-)
Madhubuti, Haki (1942-)
McElroy, Colleen J. (1936-)
McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Miller, E. Ethelbert (1950-)
Moss, Thylias (1954-)
Nelson, Marilyn (1946-)
Randall, Dudley (1914-)
Reed, Ishmael (1938-)
Rodgers, Carolyn (1945-)
Sanchez, Sonia (1934-)
Tolson, Melvin B. (1900-1966)
Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)
Troupe, Quincy (1943-)
Walker, Margaret Abigail (1915-1998)
Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)
Wright, Jay (1935-)
Young, Al (1939-)
Selected Anthologies