Black Poetry

TitleBlack Poetry: A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1969
AuthorRandall, Dudley
URLPamphlet
Number of Pages48
PublisherBroadside Press
CityDetroit
Publication Languageeng
ISBN or ASIN Number91029609
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Because students at the University of Michigan complained that anthologies used in introductory poetry courses contained no Black poets, Broadside Press was asked to compile a small collection. This booklet is a sampling of Black American poets including those of the Harlem Renaissance like Claude McKay and Jean Toomer, mature and established poets like Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and outstanding younger poets like Don L. Lee, Etheridge Knoght, and LeRoi Jones.