african american authors

An anthology of poetry written by black Americans.

Presents stories, sermons, reminiscences, poetry, recipes and color reproductions of African-American fine art, for celebrating the Christmas and Kwanzaa season.

Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known African-American poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, and Maya Angelou.

A collection of fifty-one children's poems that features selections from Nikki Giovanni, Queen Latifah, and the Sugarhill Gang; and contains an audio CD with thirty performances.

Presents a collection of poems by twentieth-century African-American poet and author Gwendolyn Brooks.

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.

Complete collection of Mary Angelou's published poems, including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning.".

Gives critical, bibliographical, and biographical information on 12 esteemed black American fiction writers.

An anthology of twentieth-century African-American short stories written by Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, and more than fifty others, with biographical notes.

Profiles the lives and work of ten African American-poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki R. Madhubuti, Rita Dove, Eloise Greenfield, Langston Hughes, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Nikki Giovanni.