There have been several famous African-American poets throughout the years including Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes. Some other examples are Alice Walker and Etheridge Knight.
Martha E. Rhynes has written: 'I, too, sing America' -- subject(s): African American poets, African Americans, American Poets, Biography, Juvenile literature 'Gwendolyn Brooks' -- subject(s): African American poets, African Americans, American Poets, Biography, Juvenile literature, Women
Joyce Pettis has written: 'African American poets' -- subject(s): African Americans in literature, African American authors, African American poets, Intellectual life, Dictionaries, Bio-bibliography, American poetry, African Americans, Biography
Bakari Shabazz has written: 'Coming clean' -- subject(s): African American poets, African Americans, American Poets, Biography
Cynthia Salisbury has written: 'Phillis Wheatley' -- subject(s): African American poets, African American women poets, African Americans, American Poets, Biography, Juvenile literature, Slaves, Women 'The 100+ Series Building Grammar, Grades 3-4'
Blanche E. Ferguson has written: 'Countee Cullen and the Negro renaissance' -- subject(s): Biography, Harlem Renaissance, African American poets, Poets, American, Intellectual life, American Poets
They were almost exclusively poets, believing that poetry was the "most pure" expression of African American culture.
Robert Thomas Kerlin has written: 'Contemporary poetry of the Negro' -- subject(s): African American authors, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American poetry, History and criticism, Intellectual life 'The church of the fathers' -- subject(s): Church history 'Negro poets and their poems' -- subject(s): African American authors, African American poets, African Americans, African Americans in literature, American poetry, Bibliography, Bio-bibliography, Biography, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Poetry
Hans A. Ostrom has written: 'Three to get ready' 'Honoring Juanita' -- subject(s): Fiction 'The coast starlight' 'A Langston Hughes encyclopedia' -- subject(s): African American poets, African Americans in literature, American Poets, Biography, Encyclopedias
Arnold Rampersad has written: 'Art & Imagination, Dubois' 'The art and imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois' -- subject(s): African American authors, African Americans, American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, Intellectual life 'The life of Langston Hughes' -- subject(s): African American poets, American Poets, Biography, Poets, American 'Ralph Ellison' -- subject(s): OverDrive, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction 'The art andimagination of W.E.B. Du Bois' -- subject(s): Afro-Americans, American Authors, Authors, American, Biography, Intellectual life 'Ralph Ellison' -- subject(s): American Novelists, Biography, African American novelists
LaVerne Harrell Clark has written: 'Focus 101' -- subject(s): American Poets, American poetry, Bibliography, Bio-bibliography, Biography, Poetry, Poets, Poets, American 'The face of poetry' -- subject(s): American Poets, American poetry, English Poets, English poetry, Poets, American, Poets, English, Portraits
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Gossie Harold Hudson has written: 'A biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar' -- subject(s): African American poets, American Poets, Biography 'Directory of black historians' -- subject(s): Directories, African Americans, African American historians, Biography 'Abraham Lincoln and Blacks during the Civil War' -- subject(s): African Americans, Friends and associates, History, Relations with African Americans, United States Civil War, 1861-1865