Poems to Celebrate Black History Month
A selection of poems from the Poetry Foundation archive that explore the African-American experience.
Lothar’s Wife
Colleen J. McElroy
Colleen J. McElroy
The Birth of John Henry
Melvin B. Tolson
Melvin B. Tolson
For My People
Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker
Ode to Big Trend
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes
Alameda Street
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney
The Things in Black Men’s Closets
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller
The Gospel of Barbecue
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
No Images
William Waring Cuney
William Waring Cuney
Song of the Andoumboulou: 60
Nathaniel Mackey
Nathaniel Mackey
FEATURED ARTICLES
- 200 Years of Afro-American Poetry
- By Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes and the Broadway Blues
- by Franklin Bruno
- The Black Poet as Canon-Maker
- by Elizabeth Alexander
- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
- By Langston Hughes
- With A Little Help from Dr. Angelou
- By The Editors
- Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood
- By June Jordan
- Jazz as Communication
- By Langston Hughes
- She Could Tell You Stories
- Lucille Clifton interviewed by Hilary Holladay
- Confronting the Warpland
- by Ed Herrmann
