This anthology uncovers dozens of mostly middle-class, educated black // women who wrote about the ordinary and extraordinary moments in their lives. "The years between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression were the Harlem Renaissance years, although often only men have been identified as the artistic figures of that movement.Blanche Taylor Dickinson / To an Icicle.Helene Johnson / What Do I Care for Morning.Eloise Bibb Thompson / After Reading Bryant’s Lines to a Waterfowl.Kathleen Tankersley Young / December Portrait.Angelina Weld Grimké / The Black Finger.Angelina Weld Grimké / A Winter Twilight.Angelina Weld Grimké / At the Spring Dawn.Anne Spencer / Lines to a Nasturtium (A Lover Muses).Kathleen Tankersley Young / All Things Insensible.Georgia Douglas Johnson / I Want to Die While You Love Me.Georgia Douglas Johnson / To a Young Wife.Gladys May Casely Hayford / The Serving Girl.Gladys May Casely Hayford / Rainy Season Love Song.Angelina Weld Grimké / To Clarissa Scott Delany.Joyce Sims Carrington / An Old Slave Woman.Angelina Weld Grimké / To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké-1915.Georgia Douglas Johnson / The True American.Effie Lee Newsome / Morning Light (The Dew-Drier).Effie Lee Newsome / The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy).
Anne Spencer / Rime for the Christmas Baby (At 48 Webster Place, Orange).Gladys May Casely Hayford / Baby Cobina.Anita Scott Coleman / The Shining Parlor.Helene Johnson / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem.Gladys May Casely Hayford / The Palm Wine Seller.Blanche Taylor Dickinson / A Dark Actress-Somewhere.Alice Dunbar-Nelson / The Proletariat Speaks.Angelina Weld Grimké / Little Grey Dreams.Elma Ehrlich Levinger / "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny".Effie Lee Newsome / The Bird in the Cage.Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Heart of a Woman.Georgia Douglas Johnson / Smothered Fires.Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Suppliant.Georgia Douglas Johnson / Calling Dreams.Anne Spencer / Before the Feast at Shushan.I’m not sure, but I think he may know a daddy who does similar things for his little boy from time to time. You’ll certainly have your own favorites, but my six-year-old used the poem below for poetry recitation, and there is nothing cuter than watching him recite this poem and then start giggling every single time. Please enjoy one of the most precious volumes of poetry I’ve had the pleasure of sharing with my family… Although that makeshift copy served me well, I’m so glad to finally have a pretty copy that I can keep on our shelf and use for years to come. That is certainly not a pleasant way to read a book, so I cramped up my fingers over the summer with some hours of opening, copying, and pasting so I could have the complete volume in a single file. I was able to find a digital copy on a public library site, but they loaded each and every page individually as a separate file (Who does that?). Updated October 2020: It has been reprinted by Living Book Press with a foreword written by yours truly! Yay!Īt one point, a used copy was selling online for $2500 (bahahahahaha!), but now you can get a beautiful reprint of Gladiola Garden with all of the original illustrations. Gladiola Garden is out of print and very difficult to obtain.
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