Anthologies of African American Writing

Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine

"The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Messenger Magazine" . Ed. Sondra K. Wilson. New York: Modern Library, 2000. xxv+418 pp.

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● Acknowledgments
● Sondra Kathryn Wilson / Introduction

PART ONE: POETRY
● Arna Bontemps / Song
● Arna Bontemps / Woodnote
● Countee P. Cullen / Pagan Prayer
● Angelina W. Grimke / To Miss Harriet E. Riggs
● Archibald H. Grimke / Her Thirteen Black Soldiers
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Too Much Religion
● Walter Everette Hawkins / The Bursting of the Chrysalis
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Here and Hereafter
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Love's Unchangeableness
● Walter Everette Hawkins / The Voice of the Wilderness
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Credo
● Walter Everette Hawkins / Where Air of Freedom Is
● Thomas Millard Henry / Ruthlessville
● Thomas Millard Henry / The Song of Psyche
● Thomas Millard Henry / The Song
● Thomas Millard Henry / Dreams Are the Workman's Friends
● Thomas Millard Henry / My Motive
● Thomas Millard Henry / Countee Cullen
● Thomas Millard Henry / Sphinxes
● Thomas Millard Henry / That Poison, Late Sleep
● Langston Hughes / Grant Park
● Langston Hughes / Gods
● Langston Hughes / Prayer for a Winter Night
● Langston Hughes / Minnie Sings Her Blues
● Langston Hughes / Formula
● Langston Hughes / Poem for Youth
● Langston Hughes / The Naughty Child
● Langston Hughes / Desire
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / To Love
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Africa
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Your Voice Keeps Ringing Down the Day
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Paradox
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Promise
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Toy
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Prejudice
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Crucifixion
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Disenthralment
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Loss
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / Karma
● Helene Johnson / Fiat Lux
● Helene Johnson / Love in Midsummer
● S. Miller Johnson / Variations on a Black Theme
● Claude McKay / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay / Labor's Day
● Claude McKay / Birds of Prey
● R. Bruce Nugent / Query
● William Pickens / Up, Sons of Freedom!
● Wallace Thurman / Confession

PART TWO: FICTION AND PLAYS
● Robert W. Bagnall / The Unquenchable Fire
● Anita Scott Coleman / Silk Stockings
● Langston Hughes / The Young Glory of Him
● Langston Hughes / Bodies in the Moonlight
● Langston Hughes / The Little Virgin
● Zora Neale Hurston / The Eatonville Anthology
● Theophilus Lewis / Seven Years for Rachel
● Theophilus Lewis / A Deserter from Armageddon
● Theophilus Lewis / Brief Biography of Fletcher J. Mosely
● Theophilus Lewis / The Bird in the Bush
● S. Miller Johnson / The Golden Penknife
● William Moore / The Spring of '65
● Eric D. Walrond / Snakes
● Dorothy West / Hannah Byde

Plays
● George S. Schuyler / The Yellow Peril: A One-Act Play
● George S. Schuyler / At the Coffee House

PART THREE: BOOK AND THEATER REVIEWS
● William N. Colson / Shoddyism Called History
● W.A. Domingo / “The Brass Check”: A Review
● Floyd J. Calvin / “The Book of American Negro Poetry”
● Georgia Douglas Johnson / “Harlem Shadows”
● Countee Cullen / “Chords and Dischords”
● Nella Larsen Imes / “Certain People of Importance”
● Robert Bagnall / “Fire in the Flint”
● Wallace Thurman / A Stranger at the Gates: A Review of “Nigger Heaven”
● Wallace Thurman / A Thrush at Eve with an Atavistic Wound
● Wallace Thurman / “Black Harvest”
● Theophilus Lewis / “The Weary Blues”
● Theophilus Lewis / “Porgy”
● Theophilus Lewis / All God's Chillun' Still Got Wings
● Theophilus Lewis / Reflections of An Alleged Dramatic Critic
● Theophilus Lewis / My Red Flag

PART FOUR: ESSAYS
Literary and Cultural Essays
● Irene M. Gaines / Colored Authors and Their Contribution to the World’s Literature
● Eric D. Walrond / The Black City
● William Pickens / Art and Propaganda
● Thomas Millard Henry / Old School of Negro "Critics" Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar
● Willis Richardson / Propaganda in the Theatre
● Theophilus Lewis / Same Old Blues
● Paul Robeson / An Actor’s Wandering and Hopes
● Chandler Owen / The Black and Tan Cabaret: America's Most Democratic Institution
● Thomas L.G. Oxley / Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926
● J.A. Rogers / Who Is the New Negro, and Why?

Social and Political Essays
● Chandler Owen / The Failure of Negro Leadership
● Chandler Owen / Du Bois on Revolution
● Chandler Owen / A Voice from the Dead!
● Chandler Owen / Black Mammie
● W.A. Domingo / Socialism the Negroes' Hope "If We Must Die"
● A. Philip Randolph / The Negro in Politics
● A. Philip Randolph / Reply to Marcus Garvey
● J.A. Rogers / The West Indies: Their Political, Social, and Economic Condition
● George S. Schuyler / Economics and Politics
● Emmett J. Scott / The Business Side of a University
● Zora Neale Hurston / The Hue and Cry about Howard University
● Wallace Thurman / In the Name of Purity
● Wallace Thurman / Quoth Brigham Young––This Is the Place Quoth Brigham Young
● Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Woman’s Most Serious Problem

● Biographical Notes of Contributors
● Bibliography

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● Contributor: Derrick Cossio
● Additional information: Karen Rae Levine