African American Poezee

This exhibit conveys a sense of the distinguished cultural heritage of Black American poets.

		African American Phat Library
Elizabeth Alexander
				Maya Angelou
	James Baldwin
		Toni Cade Bambara
Amiri Baraka
			Paul Beatty
	Gwendolyn Bennett
				Chuck Berry
Reginald Dwayne Betts
			Tara Betts
	Beyoncé
Black Arts Movement
				Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Panther Party
			Otis Blackwell
		Marita Bonner
				Arna Bontemps
		Gwendolyn Brooks
James Brown
			Ed Bullins
Abena P.A. Busia
				Steve Cannon
	Tracy Chapman
		Dave Chappelle
Alice Childress
		Esperanza Cintron
				Cheryl Clarke
	Lucille Clifton
		George Clinton
Ta-Nehisi Coates
			Wanda Coleman
				Elizabeth Cotton
Jayne Cortez
		Countee Cullen
Chuck D
				Kamau Daaood
		Samuel Delany
				Thomas Covington Dent
		Toi Derricotte
	Willie Dixon
	"Double-Bind: Three Women of the Harlem Renaissance"
			Rita Dove
W.E.B. DuBois
				Henry Dumas
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
		Paul Laurence Dunbar
				Cornelius Eady
	Thomas Sayers Ellis
		James Emanuel
			Mari Evans
Jessie Redmon Fauset
	Nikky Finney
		Aretha Franklin
				Marvin Gaye
			Nikki Giovanni
	Jewelle Gomez
Al Green
			Dick Gregory
				Angelina Grimké
		Rosa Guy
	Q.R. Hand, Jr.
				Rachel Harding
Harlem Renaissance
			Nathan Hare
Michael Harper
		Robert Hayden
				Terrance Hayes
	David Henderson
			Jimi Hendrix
Calvin C. Hernton
				Lauryn Hill
		Billie Holiday
				> Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes' New Negro Poets U.S.A.
	Michael Jackson
			Jay-Z
	Bumpy Johnson
				Georgia Douglas Johnson
		Helene Johnson
				James Weldon Johnson: The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
Robert Johnson
		Gayl Jones
				Patricia Spears Jones
	June Jordan
Alicia Keys
				Jamaica Kincaid
			Martin Luther King Center Archives
		Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story
Etheridge Knight
		Yusef Komunyakaa
	Kendrick Lamar
				Paul Laraque
Last Poets
			Lead Belly
	Stagger Lee
		John Lewis' March Trilogy
				Little Richard
Alain Locke
			Audre Lorde
Nathanial Mackey
				Naomi long Madgett
	Haki Madhubuti
				Paule Marshall
		E. Ethelbert Miller
	Janelle Monáe
Tracie Morris
			Toni Morrison
				Thylias Moss
Fred Moten
		Albert Murray
				Kofi Natambu/The Panopticon Review
Gloria Naylor
	Larry Neal
				Odetta
			Akilah Oliver
		Wanda Phipps
Sterling D. Plumpp
			William Pope.L
	Prince
				Norman Pritchard
	Lynne Procope
Richard Pryor
		Ma Rainey
Dudley Randall
				Claudia Rankine
	Lennox Raphael
				Eugene Redmond
Ishmael Reed
		Ed Roberson
			Carolyn Marie Rodgers
Kate Rushin
		Carl Hancock Rux
				Assotto Saint
	Kalamu ya Salaam
		Sonia Sanchez
Sapphire
				Gil Scott-Heron
			Ntozake Shange
		Nina Simone
Tracy K. Smith
				Sonja Sohn
		Wole Soyinka
A. B. Spellman
		Anne Spencer
				Lamont Steptoe
		Sister Rosetta Tharpe
				The Negro Motorist Green Book
Lorenzo Thomas
		Melvin B. Tolson
Askia M. Touré
				Natasha Trethewey
			Quincy Troupe
Umbra Poets
		Sarah Vaughn
				Derek Walcott
		Alice Walker
Margaret Walker
		Watts Writers Workshop
			John Edgar Wideman
	Stevie Wonder
		Richard Wright
Malcolm X
			Marvin X
	Kevin Young