Anne Spencer

Primary Works Secondary Works


PRIMARY WORKS

Poetry:

"The Poems," in Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry, by J. Lee Greene. Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977, 175-197.

"Before the Feast of Shushan," "At the Carnival," "The Wife-Woman," "Translation," and "Dunbar," in The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922, 169-173.

"Substitution," "Innocence," "Neighbors," "Questing," "Life-Long, Poor Browning," "I Have a Friend," "Creed," in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, edited by Countee Cullen. New York: Harper, 1927, 47-52.

"Letter to My Sister," in Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, edited by Charles S. Johnson. New York: National Urban League, 1927, 94.

"For Jim, Easter Eve," in The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949, 65.

Publications in Magazines and Journals:

"Before the Feast at Shushan," Crisis, 19 (February 1920): 186.

"White Things," Crisis, 25 (March 1923): 204.

"Lady, Lady," Survey Graphic, 6 (March 1925): 661.

"Lines to a Nasturtium (A Lover Muses)," Palms, 4 (October 1926): 13.

"Rime for the Christmas Baby (At 48 Webster Place, Orange)," Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life,
5 (December 1927): 368.

"Grapes: Still-Life," Crisis, 36 (April 1929): 124.

"Requiem," Lyric, (Spring 1931): 3.

SECONDARY WORKS

The Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation. Echoes from the Garden: The Anne Spencer Story(a documentary film). Lynchburg, Va.: Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation/Washington, D.C.: Byron Studios, 1980.

Facts of File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Literature. New York: Facts on File, Inc. Vol 2, 1997, 156-158.

Greene, J. Lee. "Anne Spencer," in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. vol. 51. edited by Trudier Harris. Detroit, Mi.: Gale Research Co., 1987, 252-259.

Greene, J. Lee.Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry. Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 298-303.

Salem, Dorothy C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 473-474.


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