An Anthology of African American Poetry for Young People

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

Track Listing

101	Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Dawn	Arna Bontemps	00:27
102	Langston Hughes: Youth	Arna Bontemps	00:20
103	Did You Feed My Cow?	Arna Bontemps	01:05
104	Bed Bug	Arna Bontemps	00:40
105	Precious Things	Arna Bontemps	00:25
106	I'm a Round Town Gent / Take Yo' Time Miss Lucy	Arna Bontemps	00:27
107	Beatrice M. Murphy: Signs	Arna Bontemps	00:23
108	Waring Cuney: No Images	Arna Bontemps	00:35
109	Langston Hughes: Florida Road Workers	Arna Bontemps	00:46
110	Waring Cuney: Troubled Jesus	Arna Bontemps	00:25
111	Langston Hughes: Ma Lord	Arna Bontemps	00:51
112	Countee Cullen: For My Grandmother	Arna Bontemps	00:22
113	Arna Bontemps: Miracles	Arna Bontemps	00:46
114	Claude McKay: Spring in New Hampshire	Arna Bontemps	00:49
115	Claude McKay: Home Thoughts	Arna Bontemps	01:03
116	Countee Cullen: Brown Boy and Girl Under the Mistletoe	Arna Bontemps	00:35
117	Wesley Curtright: Heart of the Woods	Arna Bontemps	00:29
118	Frank Horne: To James	Arna Bontemps	01:25
119	Arna Bontemps: Dark Girl	Arna Bontemps	00:38
120	Langston Hughes: In the Time of Silver Rain	Arna Bontemps	00:32
121	Countee Cullen: Red	Arna Bontemps	00:32
122	Josephine Copeland: New Orleans: Zulu King (at Mardi Gras)	Arna Bontemps	01:07
123	Claude McKay: Tropics in New York	Arna Bontemps	00:58
124	Langston Hughes: Trip: San Francisco	Arna Bontemps	00:30
125	Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia	Arna Bontemps	00:52
126	Langston Hughes: Heaven: The City Called Heaven	Arna Bontemps	00:29
127	Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle	Arna Bontemps	01:17
128	Langston Hughes: The Snail	Arna Bontemps	00:19
129	Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color	Arna Bontemps	00:27
130	Claude McKay: North and South	Arna Bontemps	01:16
131	Sterling Brown: Sister Lou	Arna Bontemps	01:56
132	Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen	Arna Bontemps	00:50
133	Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player	Arna Bontemps	00:49
134	Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)	Arna Bontemps	00:54
135	Countee Cullen: For a Lady I Know	Arna Bontemps	00:19
136	Sterling Brown: After Winter	Arna Bontemps	01:26
137	Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness	Arna Bontemps	00:19
138	George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams	Arna Bontemps	00:31
139	Countee Cullen: For a Poet	Arna Bontemps	00:37
140	Langston Hughes: Dreams	Arna Bontemps	00:28
141	Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers	Arna Bontemps	00:28