Links to Langston Hughes's Madam Alberta K. Johnson poems

Langston Hughes wrote a series of poems in the voice of a fictive character Madam Alberta K. Johnson. She was, as Hughes biographer Arnold Rampersad has noted  "an assertive, brassy Harlem heroine." 
What follows are links to some of those poems.

• Madam’s Past History
• Madam and the Phone Bill 
• Madam and Her Madam
• Madam and the Census Man 
• Madam And The Rent Man
• Madam's Calling Cards

Madam and the Phone Bill

Madam and the Phone Bill