Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Part I: Heritage -- Part II: Earth Mother -- Part III: Taking notice.
Preface ; The Harlem Renaissance ; Poetry form -- Part I: Heritage. Whatever / Heritage / Before / I am not proud / Having my say / I sit and sew / Room for dreams / Joy / Leah's reunion / Dusk / Vanish / Jehovah's gesture / Judgment / Part II: Earth Mother. Earth, I thank you / Sweet sister / Rondeau / Tara takes on Montclair / 1975 / Kneel / Of Earth / Seeing / At the spring dawn / Faithful / Autumn evening / Strength training / Part III: Taking Notice. Unseen / Taking notice / Flag salute / A mother's lament / The bronze legacy (to a brown boy) / Like an eagle / Your world / Mother to daughter / Four walls / What girls can do / Prelude / Slow burn / Advice / Brown poems / Journey's end / Resources. Poet biographies ; Artist biographies ; Acknowledgments ; Sources ; Index.
Grimes, Nikki, author.
Brantley-Newton, Vanessa, illustrator.
by Nikki Grimes [N.G.] -- by Mae V. Cowdery -- by N.G. -- by Helene Johnson -- by N.G. -- by Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- by N.G. -- by Clarissa Scott Delany -- by N.G. -- by Angelina Weld Grimké -- by N.G. -- by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown -- by N.G. -- by Anne Spencer -- by N.G. -- by Jessie Redmon Fauset -- by N.G. -- by Anne Spencer -- by N.G. -- by Mae V. Cowdery -- by N.G. -- by Angela Weld Grimké -- by N.G. -- by Ida Rowland -- by N.G. -- by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown -- by N.G. -- by Esther Popel -- by N.G. -- by Effie Lee Newsome -- by N.G. -- by Georgia Douglas Johnson -- by N.G. -- by Blanche Taylor Dickinson -- by N.G. -- by Lucy Ariel Williams -- by N.G. -- by Gwendolyn Bennett -- by N.G. -- by N.G. --
Nikki Grimes ; artwork by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, [and 18 others].
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance
