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

DUDLEY RANDALL Love You 1971 African American poetry $24.00

Angel to Angel: A Mother’s Gift of Love W D Myers African American Studies $6.99

Feelings of Love Not Yet Expressed: An Album of Po $14.78 Founded by China Clark, Jo-Anne McKnight, and Amirh Bahati, the Neo Black Women in Poetry is a collaborative poetry group “formed to expose the diversity among Black Women but more importantly, to bring about the unity of souls – Black/White, Man/Woman. ” In this collection of twenty poems it is often unclear where the artistry of one poet ends and the other begins, creating instead a cohesive co…

Love Jones $3.83 Boy meets girl, and boy loses girl–no more and no less than that–in this romantic story of young, upwardly mobile African Americans navigating through Chicago club culture to the perilous shores of a relationship. The film was surprisingly popular at a couple of key film festivals in 1997, but there isn’t anything particularly noteworthy about it aside from its rare emphasis on a love affair bet…

Letters To My Daughters: Poetic Affirmations Of Love from A Father $7.99 The author has written this book not only to dedicate it to his daughters, but to inspire, empower and encourage daughters around the world of all ages’. This book is a great tool to catapult daughters into a life of empowerment, inspiration, and strength to become successful at all their present and future endeavors. This book should be read and discussed in many different forums around the world…

The Sound of Love On the afternoon of her father’s burial, nineteen-year-old Talisa Tova is expelled from her home by her stepmother. With secret preparations made ahead of time by her father and the emotional support of her stepbrother, Talisa moves on and shapes a life for herself. But her bruised heart is trapped in self-preservation mode, and though she still dreams of one day opening it to someone, her partial…

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes $9.98 “The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar–. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music–. This book is a glorious revelation.”–Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet l…