Other Author(s): Harris-Lopez, Trudier.
Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
Title: Afro-American poets since 1955 / edited by Trudier Harris
and Thadious M. Davis.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--African American authors
--Bio-bibliography.
American poetry--20th century--Bio-bibliography.
African American poets--Biography--Dictionaries.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography--Dictionaries.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1985.
Description: xvii, 401 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Series: Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 41
General Notes: "A Bruccoli Clark book."
Includes index.
Location: Watson Library-Reference
Call Number: PS21 .D488 vol. 41
Status: Available
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Author: Pettis, Joyce Owens.
Title: African American poets : lives, works, and sources / Joyce
Pettis.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--Bio-bibliography
--Dictionaries.
American poetry--African American authors--Dictionaries.
African American poets--Biography--Dictionaries.
African Americans in literature--Dictionaries.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Description: xiii, 357 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-352) and
index.
Table of Contents: Ai (1947- )
Maya Angelou (1928- )
Amiri Baraka (1934- )
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Sterling Brown (1901-1989)
Lucille Clifton (1936- )
Wanda Coleman (1946- )
Jayne Cortez (1936- )
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Toi Derricotte (1941- )
Rita Dove (1952- )
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Cornelius Eady (1954- )
Mari Evans (n.d.- )
Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911)
Michael S. Harper (1938- )
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?)
Langston Hughes (1902-1968)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
June Jordan (1936- )
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Nathaniel Mackey (1947- )
Haki Madhubuti (1942- )
Colleen J. McElroy (1936- )
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
E. Ethelbert Miller (1950- )
Thylias Moss (1954- )
Marilyn Nelson (1946- )
Dudley Randall (1914- )
Ishmael Reed (1938- )
Carolyn Rodgers (1945- )
Sonia Sanchez (1934- )
Melvin B. Tolson (1900-1966)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
Quincy Troupe (1943- )
Margaret Abigail Walker (1915-1998)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Jay Wright (1935- )
Al Young (1939- ).
Location: Watson Library-Reference
Call Number: PS153.N5 P48 2002
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Bloom, Harold.
Title: African-American poets : Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B.
Tolson / edited and with an introduction by Harold
Bloom.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
Description: vii, 335 p. ; 25 cm.
Series: Modern critical views
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-310) and index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS310.N4 A69 2003
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Miller, E. Ethelbert.
Title: Beyond the frontier : African-American poetry for the 21st
century / edited by E. Ethelbert Miller.
Variant Title: African-American poetry for the 21st century
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
African Americans--Poetry.
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Black Classic Press, 2002.
Description: xx, 572 p. ; 23 cm.
General Notes: Includes indexes.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS591.N4 B45 2002
Status: Available
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Author: Brown, Fahamisha Patricia, 1942-
Title: Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular
culture / Fahamisha Patricia Brown.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
African American oral tradition.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Language and culture--United States.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans.
Black English.
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1999.
Description: ix, 174 p. ; 23 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-163) and index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS310.N4 B76 1999
Status: Checked-out (renewed) - Due on 08/11/2004
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Other Author(s): Frankovich, Nicholas, 1956-
Larzelere, David, 1970-
Title: The Columbia Granger's index to African-American poetry /
edited by Nicholas Frankovich and David Larzelere.
Variant Title: Index to African-American poetry
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--Indexes.
African Americans in literature--Indexes.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
Description: xvii, 302 p. ; 26 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xvii).
Location: Watson Library-Reference
Call Number: Z1229.N39 C65 1999
Status: Available
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Author: Johnson, Angela.
Title: The other side : Shorter poems / by Angela Johnson.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American girls--Alabama--Juvenile poetry.
African Americans--Alabama--Social life and customs
--Poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Publisher: New York : Orchard Books, c1998.
Description: xiii, 44 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: A collection of poems reminiscent of growing up as an
African-American girl in Shorter, Alabama.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PZ7.J629 Ot 1998
Status: Available
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Author: Feinstein, Sascha, 1963-
Title: Jazz poetry : from the 1920s to the present / Sascha
Feinstein.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Jazz in literature.
American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
Music and literature--History--20th century.
African American musicians in literature.
Jazz musicians in literature.
English language--Rhythm.
Poetics.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Description: xvii, 196 p. ; 25 cm.
Series: Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 44
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS310.J39 F45 1997
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Adedjouma, Davida, 1956-
Christie, Gregory, 1971-
Title: The palm of my heart : poetry by African American children
/ edited by Davida Adedjouma ; illustrated by Gregory
Christie ; introduction by Lucille Clifton.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American children's writings.
Children's poetry, American.
African Americans--Juvenile poetry.
Publisher: New York : Lee & Low Books, c1996.
Description: 1st ed.
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
General Notes: A collection of poems written by Afro-American children
celebrating what it means to be Black.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PZ4.5.Lang P356 1996
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Major, Clarence.
Title: The garden thrives : twentieth-century African-American
poetry / edited and with an introduction by Clarence
Major.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--20th century.
African Americans--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, c1996.
Description: 1st ed.
xlii, 470 p. ; 24 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS591.N4 G37 1996
Status: Available
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Author: Nielsen, Aldon Lynn.
Title: Black chant : languages of African-American postmodernism /
Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Music and literature--History--20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
African American arts.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University
Press, 1997.
Description: xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
[105]
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS183.N5 N535 1997
Status: Available
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Author: DeShazer, Mary K.
Title: A poetics of resistance : women writing in El Salvador,
South Africa, and the United States / Mary K. DeShazer.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Revolutionary poetry, Salvadoran--History and criticism.
Revolutionary poetry, South African--History and criticism.
Revolutionary poetry, American--History and criticism.
Salvadoran poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
South African poetry (English)--Women authors--History and
criticism.
American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.
Description: xii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-339) and index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PN1083.R47 D47 1994
Status: Available
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Author: Mchunu, Vusi D.
Other Author(s): Tladi, Lefifi, 1949-
Title: Stronger souls : poems and essays / by Vusi D. Mchunu ;
graphics by Lefifi Tladi.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): South African poetry--20th century.
Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa : Buchu Books, c1990.
Description: 59 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PL8014.S62 M37 1990
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Saint, Assoto, 1957-
Title: The Road before us : 100 gay Black poets / edited by Assoto
Saint.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Gay men--Poetry.
Gays' writings, American.
African American gays--Poetry.
American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--20th century.
Publisher: New York, NY : Galiens Press, 1991.
Description: 1st ed.
xxvi, 191 p. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: Includes index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS595.H65 R6 1991
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long.
Owens, Carl.
Title: Adam of Ifé : Black women in praise of Black men : poems /
edited by Naomi Long Madgett ; illustrated by Carl Owens.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--Women authors.
African American men--Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Lotus Press, c1992.
Description: 1st ed.
235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: Includes index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS591.N4 A26 1992
Status: Available
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Author: Melhem, D. H.
Title: Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions &
interviews / D.H. Melhem.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--History and
criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Poets, American--20th century--Interviews.
African American poets--Interviews.
African Americans in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Publisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c1990.
Description: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS153.N5 M4 1990
Status: Available
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Author: Chapman, Dorothy Hilton, 1934-
Title: Index to poetry by Black American women / compiled by
Dorothy Hilton Chapman.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors--Indexes.
American poetry--Women authors--Indexes.
African American women in literature--Indexes.
Women and literature--United States--Indexes.
Publisher: New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.
Description: xxiii, 424 p. ; 25 cm.
Series: Bibliographies and indexes in Afro-American and African
studies, no. 15
General Notes: Bibliography: p. xv-xxiii.
Location: Watson Library-Reference
Call Number: Z1229.N39 C45 1986
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Sherman, Joan R.
Title: Collected Black women's poetry / edited by Joan R. Sherman.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--Women authors.
American poetry--19th century.
African American women--Poetry.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description: 4 v. : ill., ports. ; 17 cm.
Series: The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women
writers
General Notes: Reprint of works originally published 1867-1910. With new
introd.
Table of Contents: v. 1. Loew's bridge, a Broadway idyl ; Poems / Mary E.
Tucker (Lambert). Infelicia / Adah Isaacs Menken.
v. 2. Magnolia leaves / Mary Weston Fordham. Ethiope lays ;
Gleanings of quiet hours / Priscilla Jane Thompson.
Songs from the wayside / Clara Ann Thompson.
v. 3. Poems / H. Cordelia Ray. Prejudice unveiled and other
poems / Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.
v. 4. Morning glories / Josephine D. (Henderson) Heard.
Poems / Eloise Bibb. Virginia dreams / Maggie Pogue
Johnson. Autobiography and poems / Mrs. Henry Linden.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS591.N4 C57 1988
Holdings: v. 1-4
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Reimonenq, Alden, 1952-
Title: Milking black bull : 11 gay Black poets / Alden Reimonenq
... [et al.].
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
Gay men--United States--Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry--Male authors.
Gay men's writings, American.
African American gays--Poetry.
Publisher: Sicklerville, NJ : Vega Press, 1995.
Description: 1st ed.
xiii, 151 p. ; 22 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS595.H65 M55 1995
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Wilson, Arthur T., 1945-
Saint, Assoto, 1957-
Title: Here to dare : 10 gay Black poets / Arthur T. Wilson ...
[et al.] ; edited by Assotto Saint.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Gay men--Poetry.
American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--20th century.
African American gays--Poetry.
Gay men's writings, American.
Publisher: New York, NY : Galiens Press, 1992.
Description: 1st ed.
159 p. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: Includes index.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS595.H65 H4 1992
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Hudson, Wade.
Cooper, Floyd.
Title: Pass it on : African-American poetry for children /
selected by Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): Children's poetry, American.
American poetry--African American authors.
African Americans--Juvenile poetry.
Publisher: New York : Scholastic Inc., c1993
Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
General Notes: "Just us books"--Cover.
An illustrated collection of poetry by such Afro-American
poets as Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, Eloise
Greenfield, and Lucille Clifton.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PZ4.5.Lang P377 1993
Status: Available
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Author: Hull, Gloria T.
Title: Healing heart : poems, 1973-1988 / by Gloria T. Hull ;
illustrations by Michele Gibbs.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women poets.
American poetry--20th century.
Publisher: Latham, NY : Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, c1989.
Description: 1st ed.
140 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS3558.U3969 H43 1989
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Harley, Sharon.
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.
Title: The Afro-American woman : struggles and images / edited by
Sharon Harley and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): African American women.
Publisher: Baltimore, MD. : Black Classic Press, 1997.
Description: xiii, 137 p. : ports ; 22 cm.
General Notes: First published in 1978.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents: Northern black female workers : Jacksonian era / Sharon
Harley
Discrimination against Afro-American women in the woman's
movement, 1830-1920 : Black male perspectives on the
nineteenth century woman / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
The black woman's struggle for equality in the south,
1895-1925 / Cynthia Neverdon-Morton
Black women in the blues tradition / Daphne Duval Harrison
Images of black women in Afro-American poetry / Andrea
Benton Rushing
Anna J. Cooper : a voice for black women / Sharon Harley
Nannie Burroughs and the education of black women / Evelyn
Brooks Barnett
"Win or lose-we win" : the 1952 vice-presidential campaign
of Charlotta A. Bass / Gerald R. Gill.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: E185.86 .A34 1997
Status: c.1 Checked-out (renewed) - Due on 07/16/2004
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Author: Stetson, Erlene, 1949-
Title: Black sister : poetry by black American women, 1746-1980 /
edited with an introduction by Erlene Stetson.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--Women authors.
African American women--Poetry.
Women--United States--Poetry.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1981.
Description: xxiv, 312 p. ; 24 cm.
Series: A Midland book ; MB268
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312).
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PS591.N4 B525 1981
Status: Available
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Author: Serote, Mongane Wally, 1944-
Title: Come and hope with me / Mongane Wally Serote.
Primary Material: Book
Subject(s): South African poetry (English)--Black authors.
Publisher: Cape Town : D. Philip, 1994.
Description: 28 p. ; 22 cm.
General Notes: Poems.
Location: Watson Library Stacks
Call Number: PR9365.35.N4 S47 1994
Status: Available
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Other Author(s): Nyamfukudza, S., 1951-
Title: New accents one : an anthology of new poetry / edited by S.
Nyamfukudza.