African-American Poets

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NAME Ai ALBA, Nanina ALLEN, Samuel W. AMINI, Johari M. (Jewel Christine McLawler Latimore / Johari M. Kunjufu) ANGELOU, Maya ATKINS, Russell AUBERT, Alvin BARAKA, Amiri BARRAX, Gerald William BEADLE, Samuel Alfred BELL, James Madison BENJAMIN, Robert C. O. BENNETT, Gwendolyn BIBB, Eloise A. BLACKSON, Lorenzo Dow Bontemps, Arna BRAITHWAITE, William Stanley BRAXTON, Joanne M. BREWER, J. Mason BROOKS, Gwendolyn Elizabeth BROWN, Sterling A. BURROUGHS, Margaret T. G. CAMPBELL, Alfred Gibbs CAMPBELL, James Edwin CANNON, Noah Calwell W. CHASE-RIBOUD, Barbara CLARK, Benjamin Cutler CLEAGE, Pearl CLIFTON, Lucille COBB, Jr., Charles E. COFFIN, Frank Barbour COLEMAN, Wanda COOPER, Ada A. CORNISH, Sam CORROTHERS, James David CORTEZ, Jayne CRUZ, Victor Hernandez BORN 1947 1915 1917 1935 1928 1926 1930 1934 1933 1857 1826 1855 1902 1878 1817 1902 1878 1950 1896 1917 1901 1917 1826? 1867 1796? 1939 1825? 1948 1936 1943 1870? 1946 1861 1935 1869 1936 1949 DIED Present 1968 Present Present Present Present Present Present Present 1932 1902 1900 1981 1927 ? 1973 1962 Present 1975 2000 1989 Present ? 1895 1850 Present ? Present Present Present 1951 Present ? Present 1917 Present Present

CULLEN, Countee DANNER, Margaret Esse DAVIS, Daniel Webster DERRICOTTE, Toi DODSON, Owen DOVE, Rita DUMAS, Henry DUNBAR, Paul Laurence EADY, Cornelius EBON (Leo Thomas Hale / Ebon Dooley) EMANUEL, James Andrew EVANS, Mari FABIO, Sarah Webster FERNANDIS, Sarah Collins FIELDS, Julia FORBES, Calvin FORDHAM, Mary Weston FORTUNE, Timothy Thomas GILBERT, Mercedes GIOVANNI, Nikki GORDON, Reverend Charles Benjamin William GRIMKE, Angelina Weld GRIMKE, Charlotte L. Forten HAMMON, Jupiter HARPER, Frances Ellen Watkins HARPER, Michael S. HAYDEN, Robert E. HEARD, Josephine Delphine Henderson HENDERSON, David HOAGLAND III, Everett H. HOLLY, Joseph Cephas HORTON, George Moses HUGHES, Langston HULL, Gloria JACKSON, Angela JEFFERS, Lance JOANS, Ted JOHNSON, Amelia E. JOHNSON, Georgia Douglas JOHNSON, Helene JOHNSON, James Weldon JONES, Sarah Gibson JORDAN, June KAUFMAN, Bob KNIGHT, Etheridge KOMUNYAKAA, Yusef

1903 1915 1862 1941 1914 1952 1934 1872 1954 1942 1921 1923 1928 1863 1938 1945 1845 1856 1889 1943 1861 1880 1837 1711 1824 1938 1913 1861 1942 1942 1825 1797? 1902 1944 1951 1919 1928 1858 1877 1906 1871 1843 1936 1925 1931 1947

1946 Present 1913 Present 1983 Present 1968 1906 Present Present Present Present 1979 1951 Present Present 1905 1928 1952 Present ? 1958 1914 1800? 1911 Present 1980 1921? Present Present 1854 1883? 1968 Present Present 1985 Present 1922 1966 Present 1938 1938 Present Present Present Present

LORDE, Audre LAMBERT, Mary Eliza [Perine] Tucker LANE, Pinkie Gordon LINCOLN, Abbey LINDEN, Charlotte E. LORDE MACKEY, Nathaniel MADGETT, Naomi Long MADHUBUTI, Haki R. (Don L. Lee) MAPPS, Grace A. MASON, Lena Doolin McBROWN, Gertrude P. McCLELLAN, George Marion McELROY, Colleen J. McGIRT, James Ephraim McKAY, Claude MENARD, John Willis MENKEN, Adah Isaacs MILLER, E. Ethelbert MILLER, May MOORE, Alice Ruth MOSS, Thylias MURRAY, Pauli NELSON, Marilyn NEWSOME, Effie Lee PARSONS, Lucy PAYNE, Daniel Alexander PENN, Anna Belle Rhodes PERKINS, Eugene PLATO, Ann PLUMPP, Sterling D. PRINCE, Lucy Terry PURVIS, Sarah Forten RANDALL, Dudley RAY, Henrietta Cordelia REASON, Charles Lewis REDMOND, Eugen B. REED, Ishmael RHODES, Jacob RIVERS, Conrad Kent RODGERS, Carolyn M. ROGERS, Elymas Payson ROWE, George Clinton SANCHEZ, Sonia SCOTT-HERON, Gil SHANGE, Ntozake

1934 1838 1923 1930 1859 1934 1947 1923 1942 ? 1864 1898? 1860 1936 1874 1890? 1838 1835 1950 1899 1875 1954 1910 1885 1853 1811 1865 1932 1820 1940 1730 1811 1914 1849? 1818 1937 1938 1835? 1933 1945 1815 1853 1934 1949 1948

1992 ? Present Present 1919 1992 Present Present Present 1891 ? 1989 1934 Present 1930 1948 1893 1868 Present ? 1935 Present 1985 1979 1942 1893 ? Present ? Present 1821 1989? Present 1916 1893 Present Present ? 1968 Present 1861 1903 Present Present Present

SIMMONS, Judy SIMPSON, Joshua McCarter SPELLMAN, A. B. SPENCER, Anne TERRY, Lucy THOMAS, Lorenzo THOMPSON, Aaron Belford TOLSON, Melvin B. TOOMER, Jean TOURE, Askia Muhammad (Rolland Snellings) TROUPE, Jr. Quincy Thomas TURNER, Henry McNeal VASHON, George Boyer WALDEN, Alfred Islay WALKER, Alice WALKER, Margaret Abigail WATKINS, James Robert WEATHERLY, Tom WHEATLEY, Phillis WHITFIELD, James Monroe WHITMAN, Albery Allson WILLIAMS, Edward W. WILLIAMS, Sherley Anne WILSON, August WRIGHT, Jay WRIGHT, Richard YOUNG, Al ZU-BOLTON II, Ahmos

1944 1820? 1935 1882 1730 1944 1883 1900 1894 1938 1943 1834 1824 1847? 1944 1915 1821? 1942 1753 1822 1851 1863 1944 1945 1935 1906 1939 1935

Present 1876 Present 1975 1821 Present 1929 1966 1967 Present Present 1915 1878 1884 Present 1998 ? Present 1784 1871 1901 1891 Present Present Present 1960 Present Present

African American Poets : Lives, Works, And Sources (2002) Ref PS153 .N5 P48 2002
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