Research Guides: Black Writers and Artists: Poets

Chinua Achebe

Beware Soul-Brother, and Other Poems
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 60
Publication Date: 1971
Enugu [Nigeria] Nwankwo-Ifejika [c1971]

A Street in Bronzeville
Call Number: PS3503.R7244S8 1945
Publication Date: 1945
New York: Harper, 1945.
We Real Cool
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 300 no. 6
Publication Date: 1966
Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press, 1966.
The Wall: For Edward Christmas
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 300 no. 19
Publication Date: 1967
Detroit, Michigan: Broadside Press, 1967.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 300 memorial
Publication Date: 1968
Detroit, Mich.: Broadside Press, c1968.
In the Mecca; Poems
Call Number: PS3503.R7244I5 1968
Publication Date: 1968
New York, Harper & Row [1968]
Riot
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 94
Publication Date: 1969
Detroit: Broadside Press, c1969. Frontispiece by Jeff Donaldson.
Family Pictures
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 301
Publication Date: 1970
Detroit, Broadside Press [1970]
Aloneness
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 647
Publication Date: 1971
Detroit, Broadside Press [1971]. Illustrated by Leroy Foster.
Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 300 special broadside
Publication Date: 1971
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1971.

Good Times
Call Number: PS3553.L45G6
Publication Date: 1969
New York: Random House, 1969.
An Ordinary Woman
Call Number: PS3553.L45O7
Publication Date: 1974
New York, Random House [1974]
Next: New Poems
Call Number: PS3553.L45N4 1987
Publication Date: 1987
Brockport, N.Y.: BOA Editions; St. Paul, Minn.: Distributed by Bookslinger, 1987.

Color
Call Number: PS3505.U287C6 1925
Publication Date: 1925
New York: Harper, 1925.
Copper Sun
Call Number: PS3505.U287C65 1927
Publication Date: 1927
New York and London, Harper & brothers, 1927.
The Black Christ & Other Poems
Call Number: PS3505.U287B6 1929
Publication Date: 1929
New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. With decorations by Charles Cullen.

Poems of Cabin and Field
Call Number: PS1556.P6 1899
Publication Date: 1899
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1899. Illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse.
In Old Plantation Days
Call Number: PZ3.D911I
Publication Date: 1903
New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903.
L'il Gal
Call Number: PS1556.L5 1904
Publication Date: 1904
New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner... decorations by Margaret Armstrong.
Lyrics of Lowly Life
Call Number: PS1556.L6 1910
Publication Date: 1910
New York, Dodd, Mead, c1896. With an introd. by W. D. Howells.

Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
Call Number: PS1799.H7P7 1857
Publication Date: 1857
Philadelphia, Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1857.

Jim Crow’s Last Stand
Call Number: PS3515.U274J5
Publication Date: 1943
[New York] Negro publ. soc. of America [c1943]

All of Ted Joans and No More; Poems and Collages
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 614
Publication Date: 1961
New York, Excelsior-Press Publishers, 1961. Introd. by Miss Ilizabeth D. Klar.
Black Pow-Wow
Call Number: PS3560.O2B5
Publication Date: 1969
New York, Hill and Wang [1969]
Afrodisia; New Poems
Call Number: PS3560.O2A7
Publication Date: 1970
New York, Hill & Wang [1970]

The Book of American Negro Poetry, Chosen and ed. with an Essay on the Negro’s Creative Genius
Call Number: PS591.N4J6 1922
Publication Date: 1922
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1922]

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
Call Number: PS3573.A425H6 1984
Publication Date: 1984
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1984.

For My People
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 574
Publication Date: 1942
New Haven: Yale university press, 1942. With a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benét.
The Ballad of the Free
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 300 no. 4
Publication Date: 1966
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966. Designed by Cledie Taylor.
Prophets for a New Day.
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 144
Publication Date: 1970
Detroit, Broadside Press 1970.
October Journey
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 612
Publication Date: 1973
Detroit, Broadside Press [1973].