Fettered genius: the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights

Bid the gifted Negro soar : the origins of the African American bardic tradition

Writ on glory's scroll : Paul Laurence Dunbar's moral heroism

To make a poet Black : constructing an ethnic poetics in Harlem Renaissance poetry

Weaponed woman : the modernist heroism of Gwendolyn Brooks's early verse

Our souls' strict meaning : Robert Hayden's spiritual history

A port worth the cruise : Melvin B. Tolson's epic imagination.