Book of American Negro Poetry
Author: first_name: Otto Leland
last_name: Bohanan
first_name: William Stanley
last_name: Braithwaite
first_name: Benjamin Griffith
last_name: Brawley
first_name: James Edwin
last_name: Campbell
first_name: Waverly Turner
last_name: Carmichael
first_name: James David
last_name: Corrothers
first_name: Joseph S.
last_name: Cotter, Jr.
first_name: Ray G.
last_name: Dandridge
first_name: Daniel Webster
last_name: Davis
first_name: R. Nathaniel
last_name: Dett
first_name: W. E. B.
last_name: Du Bois
first_name: Paul Laurence
last_name: Dunbar
first_name: Alice
last_name: Dunbar Nelson
first_name: Jessie R.
last_name: Fauset
first_name: Leslie Pinckney
last_name: Hill
first_name: John Wesley
last_name: Holloway
first_name: Roscoe C. 
last_name: Jamison
first_name: Charles Bertram
last_name: Johnson
first_name: Georgia Douglas
last_name: Johnson
first_name: James Weldon
last_name: Johnson
first_name: Fenton 
last_name: Johnson
first_name: Edward Smyth
last_name: Jones
first_name: Joshua Henry
last_name: Jones, Jr.
first_name: George Reginald
last_name: Margetson
first_name: George Marion
last_name: McClellan
first_name: Claude
last_name: McKay
first_name: William H. A.
last_name: Moore
first_name: Alex
last_name: Rogers
first_name: Theodore Henry
last_name: Shackelford
first_name: Anne
last_name: Spencer
first_name: Lucian B.
last_name: Watkins
Language: English
Year: 1922

The Book of American Negro Poetry is one of the earliest and most essential anthologies of African-American verse ever brought to print. Edited by writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson, this collection was published with the hope of bringing to the public a greater awareness of the art and literature created by Black writers. This is the first edition of this long-republished anthology and collects seminal works by Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Leslie Hill, James Corrothers, and