A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United Stat

Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which A

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.