AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETS

BY NAME
 Langston Hughes - (1906-1967)
Major works include;
 The Negro Speaks of Rivers
 Mother to Son
 Dreams
 The Weary Blues
 Po’ Boy Blues
 Let America Be America Again
 Life is Fine
 I, Too, Sing America
 Harlem
 Brotherly Love
 Zora Neale Hurston - (1891-1960)
Major works include;
 Their Eyes Were Watching God
 Every Tongue Got to Confess
 Mole Bone
 Tell My Horse
 Moses, Man of the Mountain
 Seraph on the Suwanee
 Moles and Men
 Jean Toomer - (1894-1967)
Major works include;
• Cane
• Beehive.
• Harvest Song.
• November Cotton Flower.
• Banking Coal.
• Portrait in Georgia.
• Georgia Dusk.
• Prayer.
• Reapers.
 Claude McKay - (1889-1948)
Major works include;
 Songs of Jamaica
 Constab Ballads
 Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems
 Harlem Shadows

 If we must Die
 Home to Harlem
 Ginger Town
 A Long Way from Home
 Harlem: Negro Metropolis