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The Book of American Negro Poetry is a 1922 poetry anthology that was compiled by James Weldon Johnson. The first edition, published in 1922, was "the first of its kind ever published"[1] and included the works of thirty-one poets. A second edition was released in 1931 with works by nine additional poets.

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The Book of American Negro Poetry

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The Book of American Negro Poetry is a 1922 poetry anthology that was compiled by James Weldon Johnson. The first edition, published in 1922, was "the...

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James Weldon Johnson

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Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Johnson reissued his anthology of poetry by black writers, The Book of American Negro Poetry, in 1931, including many...

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Edward Smyth Jones

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(1937). An anthology of Negro poetry by Negroes and others. [Trenton?. Johnson, J.W. (1922) (ed.). The book of American Negro poetry. New York: Harcourt...

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Joshua Henry Jones

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Johnson's 1922 book The Book of American Negro Poetry. Robert Thomas Kerlin included him in his 1923 poetry anthology Negro Poets and Their Poems. He was...

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Dunbar, writing in The Book of American Negro Poetry: Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show...

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George Reginald Margetson

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1937. An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes. Trinity College Press. 1924. ISBN 9780598606396. The Book of American Negro Poetry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 and crossing the Mississippi River on...

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The Book of American Negro Poetry, With an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Dhalle, Kathy, A Biography of Robert...

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An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes

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of Verse by American Negroes is a 1924 poetry anthology compiled by Newman Ivey White and Walter Clinton Jackson. The anthology is considered one of the...

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the paper into such areas. Negro World ceased publication in 1933. For a nickel, readers received a front-page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry...

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Otto Bohanan

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Chapel." Two of his poems were included in the influential anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922). His poems...

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Langston Hughes

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form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which...

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Harlem Renaissance

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American Poetry", Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, Salem Press, retrieved 21 May 2019 Holmes, Eugene C. (1968). "Alain Locke and the New Negro...

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American poetry

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American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the...

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Cavalcade of the American Negro is a grouping of related artworks collaboratively created by employees of the WPA-funded Illinois Writers' Project and the Federal...

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Joel Chandler Harris

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James Weldon (2008). The Book of American Negro Poetry. Book Jungle. ISBN 1605975303. p. 10 Harris, Joel Chandler (October 5, 1878) The Sunday Gazette. Bickley...

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Anne Spencer

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The Book of American Negro Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. pp. 167–174. Honey, Maureen (1989). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem...

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Negro Poets and Their Poems

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Negro Poets and Their Poems is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert T. Kerlin. It was one of the major anthologies of African American poetry published...

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Caroline Randall Williams

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received the NAACP Image Award in Literature (Instructional). In 2015, her book of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux was published by Ampersand Books. Lucy Negro, Redux...

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African American Review

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