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