Anthologies of African American Writing

Today's Negro Voices: An Anthology by Young Negro Poets

"Today's Negro Voices: An Anthology by Young Negro Poets" . Ed. Beatrice M. Murphy. New York: Julian Messner, 1970. 141 pp.

Available for borrowing from Internet Archive:

• [Beatrice M. Murphy] / Preface
• Barbara Baker / "Grow in Hope and Grace"
• Yillie Bey / Making of a Militant
• Donald E. Bogle / "An Aristotelian Elegy"
• Donald E. Bogle / Now
• Townsend T. Brewster / Black Is Beautiful
• Thelma Parker Cox / Evolution
• Thelma Parker Cox / Frustration, A Heritage
• Gregory J. Ford / Bits and Pieces
• Nikki Giovanni / Black Judgement
• Nikki Giovanni / For Saundra
• Nikki Giovanni / My Poem
• Nikki Giovanni / The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Bernette Golden / Morning
• Bernette Golden / There Are Seeds to Sow
• Bernette Golden / Words
• Roslyn Greer / Triangle
• Vera E. Guerard / At Sea
• Vera E. Guerard / Spring of Joy
• Vernoy E. Hite / Malcolm X
• Vernoy E. Hite / Trapped
• Marsha A. Jackson / In Between Time (Transcience)
• Marsha A. Jackson / Tears and a Dream
• Yvette Johnson / Ghetto
• Yvette Johnson / Reality
• Yvette Johnson / Sapling
• Yvette Johnson / This Is the City
• David Llorens / A Resonant Silence
• David Llorens / Wayward Child
• Doc Long / #4
• Doc Long / #20
• Doc Long / #25
• Doc Long / #28
• Barbara Marshall / Colonized Mind
• Barbara Marshall / Little Black Boy
• Barbara Marshall / On Philosophy
• Barbara Marshall / Request
• Herman L. McMillan / Equality
• Herman L. McMillan / Looking for Equality
• Herman L. McMillan / Lost Love
• Herman L. McMillan / Nocturnal
• Carolyn J. Ogletree / Formula
• Carolyn J. Ogletree / Life Is the Art of Drawing
• Daniel W. Owens / Borne
• Henrietta C. Parks / My Life
• Henrietta C. Parks / Uncertainty
• Dorothy C. Parrish / etc etc etc
• Dorothy C. Parrish / Hush Now
• Dorothy C. Parrish / Indictment
• Dorothy C. Parrish / Soliloquy
• Antoinette Payne / Oh! Lord
• Helen G. Quigless / At the Ebony Circle
• Helen G. Quigless / Circled by a Horsefly
• Helen G. Quigless / Lip Service
• Eugene Redmond / Evanescent Love
• Eugene Redmond / Rush City--The Hole
• Eugene Redmond / Spring in the Jungle
• Robert Reedburg / Epitaph to a Man
• Robert Reedburg / Yesterday's Child
• Carolyn M. Rodgers / U Name This One
• Carolyn M. Rodgers / We Dance Like Ella Riffs
• Linwood D. Smith / Dawn Song
• Linwood D. Smith / Free Wine on Communion Day
• Linwood D. Smith / Pride and Prejudice
• Linwood D. Smith / What Good Are Words?
• Charles Stewart / This Is for Freedom, My Son
• Robert J. Sye / Why I Rebel
• Valerie Tarver / Differences
• Valerie Tarver / Explanation
• Valerie Tarver / "I Pledge Allegiance"
• Valerie Tarver / To the White Man
• Austin D. Washington / To Be Black Is to Suffer
• Tommy Whitaker / After Depression Came Soul
• Tommy Whitaker / One Way
• Warner B. Wims / The Painful Lesson
• Beatrice M. Murphy / We Pass
• Beatrice M. Murphy / Evicted
• Beatrice M. Murphy / Trivia

• Includes 77 poems by 34 poets (17 women and 17 men)
• Includes a brief biographical note on each of the poets included in the anthology, as well as a two-page preface by the editor
• Apart from the editor (who was 62 in 1970), the poets range in age from 14 to 30 years of age
• Most of the contents have not been published previously: the exceptions are: David Llorens, "A Resonant Silence" (from "Negro Digest"); Linwood D. Smith, "Free Wine on Communion Day" (from "68 Poets" Prairie Press); the four poems by Nikki Giovanni (all from "Black Judgement"); and the two poems by Carolyn M. Rodgers (from "Songs of a Blackbird").

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not in Kinnamon 1997]

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