Gwendolyn B. Bennett

Notable Works:

Heritage

To a Dark Girl

Hatred

Advice

Langston Hughes

Notable Works:

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Danse Africaine

Desire

The Weary Blues

To Midnight Nan at Leroy's

Song for a Dark Girl

Cross

Gods

Harlen (Dream Deferred)

I, too

Justice

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Notable Works:

The Proletariat Speaks

Violet (Sonnet)

Amid the Rose

Claude McKay

Notable Works:

The Harlem Dancer

If We Must Die

Africa

America

Birds of Prey

The Barrier

The Lynching

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Notable Works:

Black Woman

Wishes

The Heart of a Woman

Countee Cullen

Notable Works:

Yet Do I Marvel

The Colored Blues Singer

Song in Spite of Myself

Helene Johnson

Notable Works:

My Race

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

Invocation

Trees at Night

Richard Bruce Nugent

Notable Works:

Shadow

Narcissus

Anita Scott Coleman

Notable Works:

Black Baby

Black Faces

Negro Laughter

James Weldon Johnson

Notable Works:

Brer Rabbit You's de Cutes' of 'Em All

Brothers

Lift Every Voice and Sing

The Creation

Voluptas

You's Sweet to Yo' Mammy de Same (Lullaby)

Mae V. Cowdery

Notable Works:

Dusk

Heritage

Jean Toomer

Notable Works:

Song of the Son

Georgia Dusk

Portrait in Georgia

Anne Spencer

Notable Works:

White Things

Sterling A. Brown

Notable Works:

Ma Rainey

Sam Smiley

Zora Neale Hurston

Notable Works:

Passion

Fenton Johnson

Notable Works:

Tired

Angelina Weld Grimke

Notable Works:

El Beso

Arna Bontemps

Notable Works:

A Black Man Talks of Reaping

God Give to Men

Wallace Thurman

Notable Works:

The Last Citadel

Confession

Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.

Notable Works:

Is It Because I'm Black?