Formats and Editions
1. Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Dawn
2. Langston Hughes: Youth
3. Did You Feed My Cow?
4. Bed Bug
5. Precious Things
6. I'm A Round Town Gent/Take Yo' Time Miss Lucy
7. Beatrice M. Murphy: Signs
8. Waring Cuney: No Images
9. Langston Hughes: Florida Road Workers
10. Waring Cuney: Troubled Jesus
11. Langston Hughes: Ma Lord
12. Countee Cullen: For My Grandmother
13. Arna Bontemps: Miracles
14. Claude McKay: Spring In New Hampshire
15. Claude McKay: Home Thoughts
16. Countee Cullen: Brown Boy And Girl Under The Mistletoe
17. Wesley Curtright: Heart Of The Woods
18. Frank Horne: To James
19. Arna Bontemps: Dark Girl
20. Langston Hughes: In The Time Of Silver Rain
21. Countee Cullen: Red
22. Josephine Copeland: New Orleans - Zulu King (At Mardi Gras)
23. Claude McKay: Tropics In New York
24. Langston Hughes: Trip - San Francisco
25. Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia
26. Langston Hughes: Heaven - The City Called Heaven
27. Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle
28. Langston Hughes: The Snail
29. Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color
30. Claude McKay: North And South
31. Sterling Brown: Sister Lou
32. Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen
33. Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player
34. Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (At Booker Washington's Grave)
35. Countee Cullen: For A Lady I Know
36. Sterling Brown: After Winter
37. Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness
38. George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams
39. Countee Cullen: For A Poet
40. Langston Hughes: Dreams
41. Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers
More Info:
Arna Bontemps's readings of poems by Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay highlight this compilation. Chosen for their ability to engage and entertain children, the selections are drawn from Bontemps's well-known book, Golden Slippers (Harpers). "These are kind and gentle poems." - AudioFile.