Oral poetry: slave creations: Juba -- Mistah rabbit -- Raise a ruckus tonight -- Juber -- Mary don you weep -- When-a mah blood runs chilly an col -- Soon one mawning -- Motherless child -- Nobody knows da trubble ah see -- Were you dere? -- Do lawd -- Voices before freedom (1746-1865): Lucy Terry Prince -- Phillis Wheatly -- Jupiter Hammon -- George Moses Horton -- Daniel A. Payne -- Ann Plato -- James M. Whitfield -- Les Cenelles -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Voices of Reconstruction (1865-1910): Albery A. Whitman -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- James Edwin Campbell -- Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. -- James David Corrothers -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Early twentieth century (1910-1960): James Weldon Johnson -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Anne Spencer -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Fenton Johnson -- Claude McKay -- Jean Toomer -- Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. -- Melvin B. Tolson -- May Miller -- Marcus B. Christian -- Sterling A. Brown -- Clarissa Scott Delaney -- Langston Hughes -- Arna Bontemps -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Countee Cullen -- Jonathan Henderson Brooks -- Frank Marshall Davis -- Richard Wright -- Robert Hayden -- Owen Dodson -- Margaret Walker -- Margaret Esse Danner -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Samuel Allen -- Naomi Long Madgett -- Voices for a new age 1960s/1970s: Elma Stuckey -- Dudley Randall -- Lance Jeffers -- Mari Evans -- Pinkie Gordon Lane -- Bob Kaufman -- Maya Angelou -- Ted Joans -- Sarah Webster Fabio -- Raymond R. Patterson -- Alvin Aubert -- Etheridge Knight --Tom Dent -- Calvin Herton -- Gerald Barrax -- Andre Lorde -- Sonia Sanchez -- Amiri Baraka -- Henry L. Dumas -- Ahmos Zu-Bolton -- Lucille Clifton -- Clarence Major -- Jayne Cortez -- June Jordan -- Eugene Redmond --Larry Neal -- Ishmael Reed -- Askia Muhammad Toure -- Julia Fields -- Michael S. Harper -- Al Young -- Nayo Barbara Malcolm Watkins -- Sterling D. Plumpp -- Haki R. Madhubuti -- David Henderson -- Quincy Troupe -- Nikki Giovanni -- Alice Walker -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Carolyn Rodgers -- Kalamu ya Salaam -- George Barlow -- Ntozake Shange -- Kenneth A. McClane -- Voices for a new age 1980s/1990s: Colleen McElroy -- Sybil Kein -- Virgia Brocks-Shedd -- Houston A. Baker Jr. -- Wanda Coleman -- Julius E. Thompson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Kiarri T.H. Cheatwood -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux -- Angela Jackson -- Rita Dove -- Leonard D. Moore -- Harryette Mullen -- Charles R. Braxton.