1900-1950: Harlem renaissance: Natalie (1898) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Closing door (1919) / Angelina Weld Grimke
Blessed assurance (1963) / Langston Hughes
from Infants of the spring (1932) / Wallace Thurman
Smoke, lilies, and jade (1925) / Richard Bruce Nugent
from One way to heaven (1932) / Countee Cullen
1950-1980: protest era: from Boy at the window (1951) / Owen Dodson
from Another country (1962) / James Baldwin
from Ruby (1976) / Rosa Guy
from Zami: a new spelling of my name (1982) / Audre Lorde
Aye, and Gomorrah (1967) / Samuel R. Delany
from Suzie Q (1978) / Red Jordan Arobateau
Symbols (1990) / Julie Blackwomon
This is how it happened (2000) / Alice Walker
Ecce homo (2000) / Michelle Cliff
Women of summer (1977) / Cheryl Clarke
1980-2000: coming out black, like us: In the life (1987) / Becky Birtha
Bird of paradise (1992) / Alexis DeVeaux
from The Gilda stories (1991) / Jewelle Gomez
from Vanishing rooms (1991) / Melvin Dixon
Dance of the cranes (1997) / Donna Allegra
from A hundred days from now (1994) / Steven Corbin
from The color of trees (1992) / Canaan Parker
from Coffee will make you black (1994) / April Sinclair
from Captain swing (1993) / Larry Duplechan
from Invisible life (1991) / E. Lynn Harris
from Soul kiss (1997) / Shay Youngblood
from The serpent's gift (1994) / Helen Elaine Lee
Foundations of the earth (1992) / Randall Kenan
from From the notebooks of melanin sun (1995) / Jacqueline Woodson
from Sunday you learn how to box (2000) / Bil Wright
from Traitor to the race (1995) / Darieck Scott
Whose song? (2000) / Thomas Glave
from B-Boy blues (1994) / James Earl Hardy
from Walking through mirrors (1998) / Brian Keith Jackson
from Po man's child (1999) / Marci Blackman.