In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United Stat

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which A

Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Wel

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.