Principal Authors in the Database of African American Poetry
- Beadle, Samuel Alfred, 1857-1932
- Bell, James Madison, 1826-1902
- Benjamin, Robert C. O., 1855-1900
- Bibb, Eloise A., 1878-1927
- Blackson, Lorenzo Dow, b.1817
- Campbell, Alfred Gibbs, b.1826?
- Campbell, James Edwin, 1867-1895
- Cannon, Noah Calwell W., 1796?-1850
- Clark, Benjamin Cutler, b.1825?
- Coffin, Frank Barbour, 1870?-1951
- Corrothers, James David, 1869-1917
- Davis, Daniel Webster, 1862-1913
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
- Fordham, Mary Weston, b.1862?
- Fortune, Michael, fl.1808
- Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928
- Franklin, James Thomas, fl.1900
- Gordon, Rev. Charles Benjamin William, b.1861
- Grimke, Charlotte L. Forten, 1837-1914
- Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-1800?
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1824-1911
- Heard, Josephine Delphine Henderson, b.1861
- Holly, Joseph Cephas, 1825-1854
- Horton, George Moses, 1797?-1883?
- Lambert, Mary Eliza [Perine] Tucker, b.1838
- McClellan, George Marion, 1860-1934
- McGirt, James Ephraim, 1874-1930
- Menard, John Willis, 1838-1893
- Millar, Gerard, fl.1906
- Moore, Alice Ruth, 1875-1935
- Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
- Plato, Ann, b.1820?
- Purvis, T. T., fl.1881
- Ray, Henrietta Cordelia, 1852?-1916
- Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893
- Rhodes, Jacob, b.1835?
- Rogers, Elymas Payson, 1815-1861
- Rowe, George Clinton, 1853-1903
- Shoeman, Charles Henry, fl.1899-1900
- Sidney, Robert Y., fl.1809
- Simpson, Joshua McCarter, 1820?-1876
- Temple, George Hannibal, fl.1900
- Terry, Lucy, 1730-1821
- Thompson, Aaron Belford, 1883-1929
- Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
- Vandyne, William Johnson, fl.1891
- Vashon, George Boyer, 1824-1878
- Walden, Alfred Islay, 1847?-1884
- Watkins, James Robert, b.1821?
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753?-1784
- Whitfield, James Monroe, 1822-1871
- Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901
- Williams, Edward W., 1863-1891
- Williams, Peter, fl.1809