This selection from the work of thirty-eight poets was made by Countee Cullen in 1927. His stated purpose at the time was to bring together a miscellany of deeply appreciated but scattered verse. Beginning with the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who, though there were black poets...
Published 1927 by Harper & Brothers, New York & London. Poets included are: Paul Laurence Dunbar - Joseph S. Cotter, Sr - James Weldon Johnson - William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - William Stanley Braithwaite - James Edward Mccall - Angelina Weld Grimke - Anne Spencer - Mary Effie...