African American Poetry Tracker compositions

The African American Poetry Tracker is a digital resource that provides information about black poetry publishing histories in anthologies. 

Visualizations 

• The Proliferation of Black Literature Anthologies, 1965 – 1976

• Tracking Seven Widely Anthologized Poems

Whiteboard animations 

2023

• May 6: When Eugene B. Redmond wondered about the meaning of a black poem

• January 31: William J. Harris, the poet as sketch artist

• January 30: "The Beauty of Bareness" by William J. Harris

• January 30: An artist who supports the arts

2022

• October 25: Black poetry and African American anthologies of the 1960s and 1970
• October 25: The circulation of Claude McKay's "If We Must Die"
• October 25: The circulation of Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son" (updated)
• October 24: African American literature & Vocabulary
• October 19: Hughes and Harper at Spelman
• October 17: The circulation of Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son" (initial version)
• October 17: Langston Hughes's new birth year
• October 14: The circulation of Gwendolyn Brooks's "We Real Cool"
• October 14: The circulation of Margaret Walker's "For My People"
• October 9: The circulation of Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Related:

• A Notebook on the African American Poetry Tracker