San Antonio College Library

Contains 231 poems of 72 Americans written since 1980.

The best poets, many of them young, of the United States, Canada, and Britain, are richly represented in this unique collection. One hundred and four poets are included; their names appear on the back of this volume. You will find many names with which you are familiar.

A collection of poetry by twentieth-century black Americans expressing what it is like to be black in the United States. Includes capsule biographies of the poets.

"This anthology of 148 poems by thirty-four Black women, including Mae V. Cowdery, Angelina Weld Grimké, Jessie Fauset, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, covers the years 1918 through 1931 and is the first to be devoted exclusively to women's poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Although women played a major role in this important cultural awakening, they have been neglected for many years and their contributions overlooked. The poems included here, most reprinted...