A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a

Brief biographies of twelve African American poets with examples of their best-known works, from Jupiter Hammon of the eighteenth century to today's Arna Bontem

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

The work of James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) inspired and encouraged the artists of the Harlem Renaissance,a movement in which he himself was an important fig