Truxal Library Special Topic Guide: Telling Our Story: African American Poetry, Past and Present
In honor of Black History Month 2022, Truxal Library celebrates African American poetry, from Phylis Wheatley to the present day.
Selected eBooks
Aphrodite's Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance –by ISBN: 9780813570785Publication Date: 2016-08-31
Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told: A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy & of America & the True Relation Thereof –by ISBN: 9780814335277Publication Date: 2010-01-01
The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry –by ISBN: 0817391975Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans –by ISBN: 0817352791Publication Date: 2006-02-28
Found Anew: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections –by ISBN: 9781611175646Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets –by ISBN: 9780820337135Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem –by ISBN: 9780739166734Publication Date: 2012-06-21
Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities –by ISBN: 9780813580012Publication Date: 2017-07-17
Lyrical Liberators: The American Antislavery Movement in Verse, 1831–1865 –by ISBN: 9780821422793Publication Date: 2018-04-20
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem –by ISBN: 9781469638607Publication Date: 2018-02-19
SOS/Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader –by ISBN: 9781625340306Publication Date: 2014-09-04
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America –by ISBN: 9780817358006Publication Date: 2015-06-15
