african american authors

Provides critical, bibliographical, and biographical information on fourteen contemporary African-American poets and dramatists.

A collection of fifty-nine poems, selected by the author for young readers, including lyrical poems, songs, and blues, many exploring the black experience.

Sixteen poems tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life, seen through the eyes of a child.

Presents the stories of sixteen African-Americans, proud of their heritage and culture, in which they tell what it was like to grow up in a nation governed by racial discrimination; and includes a selected Civil Rights chronology.

Includes Cullen's poetry and prose, essays from The Crisis magazine, the complete text of his novel "One Way to Heaven", and an interview.

Forty-seven black women provide their personal stories of black mother-daughter relationships in poetry, essay, and personal narrative.

Fifty-five poems grouped under five headings: "things i wd say," "love & other highways," "closets," "& she bleeds," and "she whispers with the unicorn.".

Surveys the contributions of African American performers and playwrights to drama, comedy, and music from pre-Civil War days to the present.