Legacy: women poets of the Harlem Renaissance

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.