Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance

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Get a sneek peek of my resource guide, which currently contains primary and secondary works of 10 women of the Harlem Renaissance. The guide's format will be changing this summer and more authors will be included.

To view the authors currently available, use the pull-down menu to choose a name, then click the Go button. 


*Gwendolyn B. Bennett

*Arna Bontemps

*Countee Cullen

*Marion Vera Cuthbert

*Alice Dunbar-Nelson

*Jessie Redmon Fauset

*Angelina W. Grimke

*Langston Hughes -- As I knew would happen eventually, the literary representatives of the Estate of Langston Hughes have informed me that I must take down the majority of Hughes poetry currently on my website. What I intend to do is to provide five poems (the number I have been given permission to display), which will change periodically.

*Zora Neale Hurston

*James Weldon Johnson

*Nella Larsen

*Claude McKay

*Esther Popel

*Anne Spencer

*Jean Toomer

*Ida B. Wells-Barnett



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