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Legacy women poets of the Harlem Renaissance

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking insp...

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Main Author: Grimes, Nikki (Author)
Other Authors: Brantley-Newton, Vanessa (Illustrator), Cabrera, Cozbi A. (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2021.
Subjects:
American poetry > African American women authors.
African Americans > Juvenile poetry.
African American women > Juvenile poetry.
Harlem Renaissance > Influence > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American women poets > Juvenile nonfiction.
Harlem Renaissance > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
African Americans > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Harlem Renaissance > Juvenile nonfiction.
Children's poetry, American.
Young adult poetry, American.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Poetry > Juvenile.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Heritage
  • Part II: Earth Mother
  • Part III: Taking notice.
  • Preface ; The Harlem Renaissance ; Poetry form
  • Part I: Heritage. Whatever / by Nikki Grimes [N.G.]
  • Heritage / by Mae V. Cowdery
  • Before / by N.G.
  • I am not proud / by Helene Johnson
  • Having my say / by N.G.
  • I sit and sew / by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Room for dreams / by N.G.
  • Joy / by Clarissa Scott Delany
  • Leah's reunion / by N.G.
  • Dusk / by Angelina Weld Grimké
  • Vanish / by N.G.
  • Jehovah's gesture / by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown
  • Judgment / by N.G.
  • Part II: Earth Mother. Earth, I thank you / by Anne Spencer
  • Sweet sister / by N.G.
  • Rondeau / by Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Tara takes on Montclair / by N.G.
  • 1975 / by Anne Spencer
  • Kneel / by N.G.
  • Of Earth / by Mae V. Cowdery
  • Seeing / by N.G.
  • At the spring dawn / by Angela Weld Grimké
  • Faithful / by N.G.
  • Autumn evening / by Ida Rowland
  • Strength training / by N.G.
  • Part III: Taking Notice. Unseen / by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown
  • Taking notice / by N.G.
  • Flag salute / by Esther Popel
  • A mother's lament / by N.G.
  • The bronze legacy (to a brown boy) / by Effie Lee Newsome
  • Like an eagle / by N.G.
  • Your world / by Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • Mother to daughter / by N.G.
  • Four walls / by Blanche Taylor Dickinson
  • What girls can do / by N.G.
  • Prelude / by Lucy Ariel Williams
  • Slow burn / by N.G.
  • Advice / by Gwendolyn Bennett
  • Brown poems / by N.G.
  • Journey's end / by N.G.
  • Resources. Poet biographies ; Artist biographies ; Acknowledgments ; Sources ; Index.

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