Prize Poems by Women of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Exploring subjects from love, loss and motherhood to jazz, passing and Jim Crow law, the poems collected in this anthology celebrate the women of color at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. This is the first collection dedicated to poems by women recognized in a groundbreaking series of literary contests, 1925 to 1927. These contests highlighted the most celebrated poets of the era---nearly half were women.