The Book of American Negro Poetry
Author(s): Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Paul Laurence Dunbar
Genre(s): Anthologies
Narrators: Jim Locke, Lynda Marie Neilson, Kahlil B, Foon, DavidG, Farnood, Michele Fry, AnnaLisa Bodtker, Larry Wilson, Chuck Williamson
Number of Chapters: 35
Length: 05 hours and 04 minutes
Language: English
The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers. This is the first edition of this long-republished anthology and collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and many more. - Summary by ChuckW