Best of the Web: Video
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(Ai) Online News Hour: The National Book Awards
Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.
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(Ai) Online News Hours: The National Book awards
Transcription of an interview with the 1999 National Book Award winner for poetry, Ai.
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(Bambara, Toni Cade) Voices From the Gaps: Toni Cade Bambara
Contains a biographical and critical essay, a selected bibliography of works by and about the author, and links to additional resources.
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(Baraka, Amiri) Amiri Baraka
Modern American Poetry page about Amiri Baraka (also known as Leroi Jones).
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(Douglass, Frederick) American Memory: The Frederick Douglass Papers
"The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. The first release of the Douglass Papers, from the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division, contains approximately 2,000 items (16,000 images) relating to Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841 to 1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862 to 1895."
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(Dunbar, Paul Laurence) Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection
Provides access to over 200 poems and a libretto.
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(Hughes Langston) Modern American Poetry: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information, and a number of online texts of poems.
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(Hughes, Langston) Modern American Poetry: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
This site contains a biography, a bibliography, critical information,and a number of online texts of poems.
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(Hurston, Zora Neale) The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
Digital images of "ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997." Can be searched by keyword or browsed by title.
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(Morrison, Toni ) Perspectives in American Literature: Toni Morrison
This site contains a critical bibliography, a list of primary works, and a review of Morrison's novel Paradise.

