African American Love Poetry

Have you read African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance? What are your favorites?

I Love Poetry and I'm Langston Hughes Zora Neal Hurston fascinated by Their Eyes Were Watching God and Man dies Conjure Fisher.

Langston Hughes is great. Countee Cullen also worthy. His "Dance Sing Feet "deserves more attention: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/she-of-the-dancing-feet-sings/ one of the best English.

A Black American – Def Poetry Jam

AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Power Love POEM Kevin Williams WAK $9.95

DUDLEY RANDALL Love You 1971 African American poetry $24.00

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems (Reading Rainbow Series) $2.66 An ALA Notable Children’s BookHONEY, I LOVEand other love poemsAges 7 to 11Love don’t mean all that kissingLike on televisionLove Means DaddySaying keep your mama company     till I get backAnd me doing it Sixteen poems tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life, seen through the eyes of a child: playing with a friend, skipping rope, riding on a train–or keeping Mama company till Daddy…

Honey, I Love $7.99 To one young narrator, it’s the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country, and kissing her mama’s arm. When this poem was first published in 1978 in Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems, Eloise Greenfield reminded us that love can be found just about anywhere. Now, twenty-five years later, she and celebrated children’s book artist Jan S…

Love Poems $4.72 In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America’s most celebrated and contoversial writers.Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works.From the revolutionary “Seduction” to the tender new poem, “Just a Simple Declaration of Love,” from the whimsical “I Wrote a Good Omelet” to the…