25 poems widely anthologized poems

• Amiri Baraka -- “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,” “A Poem for Black Hearts,” “Black Art”
• Gwendolyn Brooks -- “We Real Cool,” “a song in the front yard,” “kitchenette building”
• Cullen, Countee -- “Incident,” “Yet do I Marvel”
• Paul Laurence Dunbar -- “We Wear the Mask,” “Sympathy”
• Nikki Giovanni -- “Ego-Tripping,” “Nikki-Rosa”
• Frances Harper -- “Bury Me in a Free Land,” “The Slave mother”
• Robert Hayden -- “Frederick Douglass,” “Runagate Runagate,” “Those Winter Sundays”
• Langston Hughes -- “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mother to Son,” “I, Too”
• Helen Johnson -- “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem”
• Claude McKay -- “If We Must Die,” “The Lynching”
• Margaret Walker -- “For My People”
• Phillis Wheatley -- “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

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