African American poets
Subtitle: lives, works, and sources
By: Joyce Pettis.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: American poetry -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.; American poetry -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- Dictionaries.; African American poets -- Biography -- Dictionaries.; African Americans in literature -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Dictionaries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Ai (1947- ); title: Maya Angelou (1928-; title: Amiri Baraka (1934-; title: Arna Bontemps (1902-1973); title: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000); title: Sterling Brown (1901-1989); title: Lucille Clifton (1936- ); title: Wanda Coleman (1946- ); title: Jayne Cortez (1936- ); title: Countee Cullen (1903-1946); title: Toi Derricotte (1941-); title: Rita Dove (1952-); title: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906); title: Cornelius Eady (1954- ); title: Mari Evans (n.d.- ); title: Nikki Giovanni (1943- ); title: Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806); title: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911); title: Michael S. Harper (1938- ); title: Robert Hayden (1913-1980); title: George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?); title: Langston Hughes (1902-1968); title: Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966); title: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938); title: June Jordan (1936- ); title: Etheridge Knight (1931-1991); title: Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-; title: Audre Lorde (1934-1992); title: Nathaniel Mackey (1947-; title: Haki Madhubuti (1942-; title: Colleen J. McElroy (1936-; title: Claude McKay (1889-1948); title: E. Ethelbert Miller (1950-; title: Thylias Moss (1954- ); title: Marilyn Nelson (1946- ); title: Dudley Randall (1914- ); title: Ishmael Reed (1938- ); title: Carolyn Rodgers (1945-); title: Sonia Sanchez (1934- ); title: Melvin B. Tolson (1900-1966); title: Jean Toomer (1894-1967); title: Quincy Troupe (1943- ); title: Margaret Abigail Walker (1915-1998); title: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784); title: Jay Wright (1935- ); title: Al Young (1939- ).