LibGuides: Writing 101: African American Poetry & Song: African American poetry sources

Poetry in research databases

African American Poetry
Search across 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Search across the full text of 250,000 poems and 450,000 citations. Locate poems by author, title, first line, last line, subject

Literature Resource Center
Find biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses for authors.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Search across major scholarship covering the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture
ProQuest One Literature
This database brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
HistoryMakers Digital Archive
View oral history video interviews with thousands of historically significant African Americans in the arts, business, education,entertainment, law, the military, politics, sports, religion, science, and medicine.