Link: African American Poetry -- 20th Century from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive

About: African American Poetry -- 20th Century from Chadwyck-Healey via NCLive is a database of modern and contemporary African American poetry featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and Rita Dove. Full text.

Dates of Coverage: 1900’s to 1990’s.

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