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Guide to the Langston Hughes Papers
JWJ MSS 26
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LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
Description of the Papers
Collection Contents
Series I. Personal Correspondence , ca. 1910-1967
Series II. Professional Correspondence , dates: 1920-1967
MINOR PUBLISHERS, PUBLICATIONS, AND AGENTS
FAN MAIL
FOREIGN MAIL
FORM LETTERS
Series III. Family Correspondence , dates: 1904-1967
TO AND FROM HUGHES, LANGSTON
BETWEEN OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS
Clark, Carolyn
Clark, Gwyn ("Kit")
Hood, Langston ("Larry")
Hughes, James Nathaniel
SYMPATHY MESSAGES
Series IV. Third Party Correspondence , dates: 1927-1966
Series V. General Writings , 1922-1967
WORKS BY TITLE
Adam and Eve and the Apple: An Opera in One Act
Adelaide Hall New Star of Paris Night Life
Adelbert College commencement speech
[Empty folder]
An Adventure with Absinthe
Advice to my People
Africa Speaks
African Morning
African Short Stories
An African Treasury
Afro-American Committee for Gifts of Art and Literature to Ghana
After the Wedding
All Aboard
All About Women: A Sequence of Monologues, Poems, and Songs
The Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals, Madrid
Alumni In Uniform
The Amazon Queen
An American Joshua
The American Negro Speaks
American Negro Writers
American Negroes: 6 Cities, Each Distinct in Attitudes
America's Most Powerful Negro
Anchors Hey! Hey!
Ancient Contemporaries in the Forest Theatre
An Anthology of American Negro Humor
Anthology of Contemporary Negro Plays
An Anthology of Harlem
Anthology of "Opportunity Poets"
An Anthology of Popular Songs by American Negroes
Anti-Semitism, Nazis and Negroes
Around the Clock in Madrid
Around the World Home
Around the World to Harlem
Artists of Love: Negro Men and French Women
Ask for All
Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz
Ask Your Mama: A Poetic Dialogue for a Man and a Woman
Ask Your Mama: A Dance Sequence
Atlanta: Its Negroes Have Most Culture
Baby, Please
Backstage
Ballad for Americans
The Ballad of the Brown King
Ballad of the Man Who Went to War
The Ballot and Me: The Negro's Part in Suffrage
Banjo Blues
Banquet in Honor
Barricaded
The Barrier
Battle of Harlem
Be Nice, Harlem
Before I'd Be a Slave
Berry
Bessie Smith Descends
Best of Simple
The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers
Big Ghost and Little Ghost and Other Stories
The Big Sea
Bill of Rights - CBS
The Birth of Love
Birth of the Blues: An Episode in the Life of W.C. Handy
Black Magic
Black Misery
Black Nativity
Black Nativity: Gospel Singing School Kit
The Black World of Harlem
Black Writers in A Troubled World
Blame It On Love, [A Musical Skit]
Blessed Assurance: A Short Story
Blood Is Red
Blood On the Cotton
Blood On the Fields
Blow Your Trumpet, Where is That Horn?
The Blues
The Blues and Me: A Television Continuity
Blues By Langston Hughes
The Blues I'm Playing
Blues To Be-Bop Ballet
Bodies In The Moonlight
Bon-Bon Buddy: A Story For Children
The Boogie Woogie Man
The Book of Negro Folklore
The Book of Negro Humor
The Book of the English-Speaking Caribbean
Booker T. Washington and Selma
Booker T. Washington at Atlanta
Books and the Negro Child
Books on the Negro
The Bottle of Wine
Boy of the Border
The Breath of a Rose
Bright Chariots
Brightly Colored
Brothers
Brown America In Jail
Brownskin Tenth of America
A Cabin Known Around the World
Careless Love
A Caribbean Sampler
Carl Van Vechten: An Appreciation
Carmelita and the Cockatoo; A Ballet Libretto
Carmelita and the Cockatoo: A Verse Play for Children
Carnival
Carver Calendar, 1965-66
Case in Case
Cats, Crickets and Stars
Caught In the Draft
Chicago Defender Columns
Chicago Defender Program
Chicago's South Side Comes Alive
Children and Poetry
Chocolate Sailor
Choreography Comes to Central Avenue
Choreography Comes to Harlem
A Christmas Sampler
Christmas With Christ
Church for the Deaf
The City of Jazz: A Musical Narration
The Civil Rights Calendar for Carver Bank
Class Struggle In Swing
Cock O'De World
Coffee Concerts
The Collected Poems
Colonel Tom's Cabin
Colored Artists Musical Ambassador to Europe
Common Ground
Composers
Concerning Goodbye, Christ
Concerning Nicolás Guillén
Concerning Red Baiting
Conference In Swing
The Conga Ends (La Conga Se Va)
Conscientious Objector
Continuity for Canada Lee
Continuity for Philemon Hou
Conversation
Cops and Robbers
Cousin Minnie Wins: A Short Story
Cowards From the Colleges
A Cuban Sculptor
Cuckoo Klux Klan
Curtain Time
Daddy, Please
The Dark People of the Soviet
Darkness to Light: A Folk Song Interlude
Dear Negro Leaders
Dear Old Southland: A Ballet-Drama of the American South
Death and Laughter in Madrid
Declarations
Democracy and Me
Democracy, Negroes and Writers
Dialogue at Dawn
Dialogue On Democracy
Do Big Negroes Keep Little Negroes Down?
A Dog and Cat Tales: A Story for Small Children
Don't Be a Bottle Battler
Don't You Want to Be Free: A Poetry Play
Dont's and Do's to Avoid the Blues
Down Under in Harlem
Dream Deferred: A Song Suite
The Dream Keeper: A Recording Script
Drums of Haiti
DuBois: A Part of Me
During War-Olin [Sic] Montgomery
Dusty Road
Early Mornin' Blues
Early Morning Blues
Ebony's Nativity
Editorial notes
Egg In the Hole
Eight Jamaican Poets
Eight to Two
The Em-Fuehrer
Emmett Till, Mississippi, and Congressional Investigations
Emperor of Haiti
End of the K.K.K.
Enrique Lister-An Immigrant Comes Home
Esther
European News
Even When the Critics Disagree . . .
Ever See a Song?
Family of Three
Famous American Negroes
Famous Negro Heroes of America
Famous Negro Music Makers
Fascination of Cities
Fields of Wonder
Fifty Million Seats
Fight for Freedom
Fine Accommodations
Fine Clothes To De Jew: Sixteen Blues Poems
A Fine New Poet
The First Album of Jazz for Children
The First Book of Africa
The First Book of Gypsies
The First Book of Jazz
The First Book of Negroes
The First Book of Rhythms
The First Book of Sharing
The First Book of the Caribbean
The First Book of the West Indies
The First Book of the World Prayers
The Five Foolish Virgins: A Cantata
Five Plays For the Negro Theatre
Five Syllable Variation
Five Wise, Five Foolish
Flowers-Maybe
Fooling Our White Folks
For This We Fight
Fortune Teller
Four One-Act Plays
Frankie Baker
The Freedom Train and Other Poems of Negro Life and History
From Blues to "the Barrier": Folk Songs To Opera
From Harlem to Samarkand
Front Porch
The Future of the Negro
Get Over, John
The Get-Away
The Glory Around His Head
The Glory of Negro History
God Punishes Rabbit
Going Mad With A Dime
The Gold Piece, A Play For Children
The Gospel Glory: A Passion Play
The Gospel Queen and the Empress of the Blues
Gospel Singers: New Asset to American Theatre
Gospel Songs: From Kansas to Broadway
Gospel Songs and Gospel Singing
Gospel TV Time
Great Negroes of the Past
Greetings, Good Neighbors
Guest of Honor
The Gun
The Hand Loved Best of All: Text for A Cantata
Hard-Boiled Mamma
Harlem and Its Negritude: The Twenties
Harlem Book
Harlem Debutante
Harlem Renaissance Anthology
Harvest [play]
The Heritage of the Negro as a Living Force
Highway Holiday
L'Histoire De Ma Vie
Hollywood Mammy: A Song Satire
Honey Child
Hot Cinnamon: An Intimate Revue in Color
How Poems Are Born
How Real Is Make Believe?
How Simple Speaks His Mind Was Written
How To Be a Bad Writer (In Ten Easy Lessons)
How to Integrate Without Danger of Intermarriage
Humor and the Negro Press
Humorous Negro Verse: An Anthology
I Couldn't Help But Laugh
I Wish You'd Let Me Love You
I Wonder As I Wander
I Wonder As I Wander Around the World Home
In Memory of a Man
In the Service of My Country
Incident in Bokhara with Arthur Koestler
Interview with a Star-to-Be
Introducing Mahalia Jackson
It's About Time
It's Up To You [play]
An Ivy Day Toast: The Campus
Jacques Roumain: Leading Haitian Writer
Jazz Is a Heartbeat
Jeffers: Man, Sea and Poetry
Jerico-Jim Crow
Jim Crow's Funeral
Jim Crow's Last Stand
Job
Joint Committee on Negro Performer: Integration Statement
Jokes Negroes Tell on Themselves
The Jolly Genius of Jazz
Josh White Sings Easy
Joy to My Soul
Jubilee: A Cavalcade of the Negro Theatre
Just a Little Simple
Just Around the Corner: A Musical Comedy
Just Traveling
Justice Go Blind
Kilby Prison: Scottsboro Boys
Killed But Not Dead
King Cotton
Lamp Unto My Feet: It's a Mighty World
Langston Hughes and Haiti
Langston Hughes on Spain
Langston Hughes on Writing
The Langston Hughes Reader
Laughing To Keep From Crying
Leap Year
Leaves
Let Us Remember
Let's Face the Race Question
Let's Get Together Week
Liberals
Life at Dunbar College, 1966
Life Checks Up
Light in the Heart
Lights of the City
Limitations of Life
Lincoln University Poets: Centennial Anthology (1854-1954)
Little Ham: A Comedy in Three Acts
Little Ham From Harlem
The Little Ole Jack
The Little Old Spy
The Locket and the Song
Love From a Tall Building: A Libretto in One Act
Mad Scene From Woolworth's
Making a Living as a Writer
The Man Next Door
Marching Down Freedom Road
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mary Winosky
The Master and the Slave
Master of the Moon
Me and the Blues
Memories of Christmas
Mister Jazz
Monarch of Gospel Songs: Langston Hughes
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Mother and Child
Mulatto
Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
My Adventures as a Social Poet [speech]
My Adventures as a Social Poet [essay]
My America
My Career as a Writer
My Collaborator: Kurt Weill
My Early Days in Harlem
My Host is a Character
My Life and Times (My Lively Times)
My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience
My Poems and Myself
My School Days in Lincoln, Illinois
My Treasure Chest for You
Mysterious Madame Shanghai
Narration for Film of Burning Books
National Labor Relations Act
NMU Monologue [National Maritime Union]
[National Negro Musicians Souvenir Dinner Program]
National Unity
Native Son: The Boogie Woogie Man
The Need for an Afro-Arts Theatre
The Need for Heroes
Negro Art and - Claude McKay
The Negro in America
The Negro in American Entertainment
The Negro in the Drawing Room
Negro Literature and Achievement in the U.S.A.
Negro Literature Becomes an Important Part of American Culture
A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia
The Negro Mother
Negro Poetry Around the World
Negro Poets
The Negro Speaks of Rivers [film treatment]
Negro Themes
The Negro Writer and Social Responsibility
The Negro Writer in the West Indies and Latin America
Negro Writers and the War
Negro Writers of the Mid-West
Negroes and Pushkin
Negroes and the War
Negroes Salute Spain
Negroes Speak of War
Never Room with a Couple
New Negro Poets: U.S.A.
New Negro Theater: Los Angeles
A Night at the Apollo
Nightmare Come True
The Nine O'Clock Bell
A 1966 Calendar of Inventions and Discoveries
No Place to Make Love
Not a Thing to Wear
Not Without Laughter
Note on Eugene Gavin
A Note on the Blues
Nothin' But the Blues
O'Blues
Oh God, Miss Strickland
Old Lyric File Yields Show Song
On Being a Writer
On Location with A Raisin in the Sun
On the Road
On the Way Home
One Friday Morning
One More Conference
One More Head
One Way Ticket
[Open letter to the editor of
The Crisis
]
Open Letter to the South
Opportunity Poets
De Organizer: A Blues Opera in One Act
Our History Is Our Music: A Poetry-To-Jazz Sequence
Out of Slavery: An Epic Play With Music
Outshines the Sun
Oyster's Son
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times
The Paris of the Tourists
The Pasteboard Bandit
Patron of the Arts
Pennsylvania Spring
The Perpignan Jail
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
Pictures More Than Pictures: The Work of Manuel Bravo and Cartier-Bresson
The Pied Piper of Swing
Pirates Unawares
Poems About Africa
Poems by Langston Hughes
Poems From Black Africa
Poems of the Spirit
Poems That Just Grew
La poésie négro-américaine
Poetry-in-the-Round
The Poetry of Freedom
Poetry of the American Negro
Poetry of the Negro
Poetry-To-Jazz
Politics and the Poet
Poor Little Black Fellow
Popo and Fifina
Port Town
Portrait of Arthur Koestler in Soviet Asia
Postal Box: Love
A Posthumous Tale
Prayers Around the World
Private Jim Crow
The Problems of the Negro Writer
The Prodigal Son
Program for Miss Eartha Kitt
Projection of a Day
Rabbit and the Alligator Become Enemies
Racial Matters: U.S.A. Theme and Variations, A Letter From America
Radio Interview: Detroit
A Reader's Writer
Reno Possesses Only Negro Weather Man
Return to Africa
The Rhythms of the World: A Recording Script
Richard Wright's Last Guest
Rights of Democracy
Riot Notes
Riots and Reports
The Road [play]
Rock, Church, Rock
The Roots of Jazz
Rouge High
Roy R. Decarava Exhibition
Sailor Ashore [A Short Story]
St. James: Sixty Years Young, An Anniversary Panorama
The Saint Louis Blues: A Ballet Libretto
St. Louis Woman by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen
Samarkand the New
Saratoga Rain: A Short Story
Saved from the Dogs: A Short Story
Scottsboro Limited [play]
Second Album of Jazz
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
Seven People Dancing
Sex Silly Season
Shadow of the Blues: A Book of Poems
Shadow of the Blues: A Play
Shakespeare in Harlem
Shakespeare in Harlem: A Theatrical Montage in One Act
Silently They Worship God
Simon Bore the Cross: An Easter Cantata
Simple: Five Recording Scripts for Charlie Mingus
Simple and Me
Simple and the Bomb Shelter
Simple and the Liberals
Simple and the Moon
Simple and the Puerto Ricans
Simple and the Rosenwald Fund
Simple Commits a Faux Pas in Harlem English
Simple Discusses Colleges and Color
Simple Finds the Walls of the World Too Thin
Simple Monologues
Simple on the United Negro College Fund
Simple Preaches Jim Crow's Funeral
Simple Quotes for Carver 1966 Calender
Simple Sketches
Simple Sounds Off
Simple Speaks His Mind
Simple Speaks on Peace
Simple Stakes a Claim
Simple Takes a Wife
Simple Takes a Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts
A Simple Tale About a Dog Named Trilby
Simple's Calendar for 1960
Simple's Long Trek To Broadway
Simple's Uncle Sam
Simply Heavenly: A Comedy with Music
The Singing Road
A Sketch of My Life
Slice Him Down
So You Want To Write
Sold Away
The Soldiers Pass
Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy
Something In Common [short story]
Something In Common and Other Stories
Songs Called the Blues
Songs of Christmas
Sophronia's Dream
Soul Gone Home: A Libretto For An Opera In One Act
Soul Gone Home: A One-Act Play
South of Light Bulbs and Pomegranates
Spain's Martyred Poet, Garcia Lorca
Spanish Blood
Speak Well of the Dead
Spiritual Spectacular
Spread My Wings and Fly: Poems of Faith
The Star Decides
Stepping Stones
Story for Bobby Breen
Story of Jazz
Storyville
Street Scene
The Streets of Chicago
The Strollin' Twenties
Stymied
Sun and Morning
The Sun Do Move
A Surprise for the K. K. K.
Sweet and Sour Animal Book
Sweet Chariots
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Swing Time at the Savoy
Swinging at the Golden Gate
Tain't So
Tambourines to Glory [book]
Tambourines To Glory [play]
Tell It To Telstar
Temples for Tomorrow
Ten Ways to Solve the Negro Problem
Ten Ways to Use Poetry in Teaching
Testimony Before the Senate Committee . . .
Thank You M'am
That Glory Train
That's a Moon: A Selection of Contemporary Negro Poetry for Young People
That's Jazz: A Panorama in Music
These Bad New Negroes: A Critique On Critics
These Prayers
Thorne Kellogg: Midnight Balloon Man
Three Months at the Laboratory School [University of Chicago]
Three Students Look at Lincoln
To Negro Writers
Too Much of Race
Tragedy in Blue: An Opera in One Act
The Train That Took Wings and Flew
The Trenches of Madrid
Tribute to Ralph Bunche
Tropics After Dark
Troubled Island: An Opera
Two at the Bar
Two Brothers/Dos Hermanos
Two Old Books New to the Reader: A Comparison
Two on the Road
Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Opera
University of Chicago Laboratory School material
A Vacation in Jamaica
Vachel Lindsay: Incident
A Veteran Falls
The Vigilantes Knock At My Door
Voices, A Quarterly of Poetry: Negro Poets Issue [Winter, 1950]
The Wages of Sin Are Not Always Death
Walt Whitman and the Negro
Walt Whitman's Darker Brothers
War and Peace
Way Down South
The Weary Blues [music program]
Western Reserve University, Adelbert College commencement speech
What Goes On Backstage Between Shows
What Makes the Negro Press Worth While
What Shall We Do About the South
What the Negro Wants
When the Jack Hollers: A Negro Folk-Comedy
Where is That Horn?
White Folks Do the Funniest Things
White on Black
Who's Passing for Who?
Why, You Reckon?
Wide Wide River: A Folk Opera
Work
Words, Writers and the World
A World View of the Negro Question
A Writer's Responsibility
Year Round: A Little Book of Verses and Poems For Children
You're Simple If You Want to Write a Play
SHORT WORKS BY SUBJECT
[Autobiographical notes]
Blues Sketches
Drum
story contest
Introductions
Newspaper Columns
Poems [Single, Groups, Song Lyrics]
Reader's Reports by Langston Hughes
Record album liner notes
Reviews
Revues
Short pieces: recommendations, statements and tributes
Short stories
Third War Loan Campaign Slogans
World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar
Notes and Fragments
Series VI. Poems , 1924-1967
SINGLE POEMS
Abe Lincoln
Abordando el Tren de la Libertad
Acceptance
Addition (Put 5 and 5 Together)
Addition (7x7[plus]love=)
Adolescents
Advantage
Advertisement for Opening of The Waldorf Astoria
Advice (Folks, I'm Telling You)
Advice (If You Fall in Love)
Advice (It's So Seldom)
Advice to Cullud Movie Actors
Aerial Garden
Aesthete in Harlem
Afraid
Africa
African Dance
African Question Mark
Afro-American Fragment
After Hours Ball
After Many Springs
After the Cabaret
After the Rose
Air Raid: Barcelona
Air Raid Over Harlem
Airplane Factories
Alabama: 1956
Alas! Alack!
Along About the Autumn Time
Always Hope
American Heartbreak
American Motto
American Youth
And So the Seed
Angels Wings
Angola Question Mark
Announcement
Answer, Answer Man
April Rain Song
Arab
Arado de Libertad
Ardella
As Befits a Man
Argument
Artists
Aspiration
Assorted Couplets
At Rest
Atlanta, 1906
August 19th: Scottsboro Death Date
Aunt Sue's Stories
Autumn Thought
Awe
Azikiwe in Jail
Baby
Baby Joe
Baby Mine
Babylon
The Backlash Blues
Backyard
Bad Dream
Bad Luck Card
Bad Man
Bad Morning
Bad Weather
Baldy
Ballad of Booker T.
Ballad of Ethiopia
Ballad of Gin Mary
Ballad of Harry Moore
Ballad of Margie Polite
Ballad of Mary's Son
Ballad of Negro History
Ballad of Roosevelt
Ballad of Sam Solomon
Ballad of the Black Sheep
Ballad of the Fortune-Teller
Ballad of the Gypsy
Ballad of the Landlord
Ballad of the Mother and Child
Ballad of the Pawnbroker
Ballad of the Sad Love
Ballad of the Seven Songs, A Radio Poem
Ballad of the Tramp
Ballad of the Two Thieves
Ballad of Walter White
The Ballot: Saturday Night
Bar
Barefoot Blues
Barrel House: Industrial City
Bars
Battle Ground
Be Cool
Be Kind
Beale Street
Beale Street Love
Beaumont to Detroit
Bed Time
Beggar Boy
Being Walkers With the Dawn and Morning
The Bells Toll Kindly
Better
Big Buddy
Big City
Big City Prayer
Big Sur
Bird in Orbit
Birmingham-Jackson Bus
Birmingham Sunday (September 15, 1963)
Birth
Bitter Brew
The Bitter River
Black Clown
Black Economics
The Black Man Speaks
Black Maria
Black Seed
Blind
Blue Bayou
Blue Monday
Blues (I wish you would send me)
Blues (Late last night...)
Blues (My blues ain't pretty)
A Blues (No, No...)
The Blues (When your shoestrings break)
Blues
Blues at Dawn
Blues on a Box
The Blues Have Overflowed My Cup
Boarding House
Bombings in Dixie
Bonds For All
Bonds: In Memoriam
Bonne Nuit, Bon Jour, Merci
Boogie: 1 a.m.
Booker T.
Border Line
Bound No'th Blues
Bouquet
Boy
Brand New Clothes
Brass Spitoons [sic]
The Breath of a Rose
Brief Encounter
Broadcast on Ethiopia
Broadcast to the West Indies
Brotherly Love
Brothers
Burden
Cabaret Girl Dies on Welfare Island
Cafe: 3 a.m.
Calm Cool Kid
Canaveral
Capitalism
Careless Backyard
Caribbean Sunset
Carol of the Brown King
Carolina Cabin
Casual
Casualty
Catch
Celestial Eye
Centennial: Central High School: 1846-1946
Centennial: 1863-1963
Certainty
C'est la lune
Champ
Chant For a Wayward Gal
The Cheapest Boarding House
Chicago
Chicago Blues
Childhood Memories
Children's Song
China
Chippy
Christ
Christ in Alabama
Christmas Eve
The Christmas Story
Christmas Time
Circle
Circles
City
Civil War Centennial: 1865-1965
Clash
Colleagues
Color
The Colored Soldier
Comedian
Comfort Me Blues
Comment
Comment Against a Lamp Post
Comment on a Curb
Comment on a Curb
Commission
Communication Blues
Communion
Communique
Concerning Politicians
Conclusion
A Conservatory Student
Consider Me
Contentment
Convent
Cora
Cora and the Judge
Corner Meeting
Correspondence School Blues
Could Be
Country
Croon
Cross (My old man's a white old man)
The Cross (The cross is gently caressed)
Crossing
Crowing Hen Blues
Crowns and Garlands
Crucified
Crucifixion
Cry
Cubes
Curious
Cycle
Daddy-o
Dancer
Danse Africaine
Danse Condomee
Dare
Dark Girl's Lament
Daybreak
Daybreak in Alabama
Dead in There
Dear Brother at Home
Dear Folks at Home
Dear Lovely Death
Dear Miss Randolph
Death
Death
Death Chant
Death in Africa
Death in Harlem
Death in Yorkville
Death of an Old Seaman
Deceased
Deep Sea Blues
Defense Bond Blues
Deferred
Delinquent
Demand
Democracy
Demonstration
Departure
Desert
Desire
Dialectic For a Broken Heart
Did Dream
Dilemma
Dimout in Harlem
Dinner Guest: Me
Dis Harlem
Discovery
Dixie Negro to Uncle Sam
Dixie Questionnaire
Dixie-South-Africa
Do You Reckon?
Domestic Happenings
Don't Reckon Blues
Doorknobs
The Dove
Down and Out
Down the Hill Blues
Down the River Blues
Down Where I Am
Draftees
Dream
Dream Boogie: Variation
Dream Dust
The Dream Keeper
Dream of Freedom
Dream Variation
Dreams
Dreams and Nightmares
Dressed Up
Drum
Drums
Drums of Africa
Drunkard
Dusk
Dust and Rainbows
Dustbowl
Dyin' Too-Early Girl's Blues
Dying Beast
Each Soul Had Need
Eagle Rock
Early Edition
Early Evening Blues
Earth Song
East-West Communication
Easter in Wartime
Echo
Echoes
Elderly Politicians
Emperor Haile Selassie
Encounter
End
End of Curley Boyd
Enemy
The English
Ennui
Entombed
Envoy to Africa
Epilogue
Epitaph
Epitaphs for the Niggerati
Error
Even the Laundry Blues
Evening Song
Evil
Evil Morning
Exits
Expendable
Extra
Faced With Economics
Faces Passing
Fantasy in Purple
Fashionable Photographer's
Feet o' Jesus
Field Hand's Lament
The Female Sweeties of Sugar Hill
50-50
Figurette
Final
Final Cry
Final Curve
Finale (Now, to come back)
Finale (Sunday morning where the rhythm flows)
Finale (Then I cry, Lord! Lord!)
Fire
Fire - Caught
Fired
Five Foolish Virgins
Five O'Clock Blues
Flatted Fifths
Flight
Florida Road Workers
Flotsam
Fog
For A'lelia [Walker]
For Billie Holiday (June, 1947)
For Dead Mimes
For Helen Hoke Watts
For Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
For You
Fortune Teller Blues
403 Blues
Frederick Douglass
Free Man
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom Land
Freedom Ride
Freedom Train
Freedom's Plow
Friendly in a Friendly way
From Selma
From Spain to Alabama
From the Jim Crowed to the Jim Crowers
Frosting
Fulfillment
Funeral
Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover
Game
Gandhi in Prison
Gandhi is Fasting
Gangsters
Garden
Garment
Gauge
Genius Child
Georgia Dusk
Germination
Get Up Off That Old Jive
Ghosts of 1619
Gifts
Girl (Her teeth are as white...)
Girl (She lived in sinful happiness...)
Girl (She looks like a gypsy...)
Give Us Our Peace: A post-war poem
Go Slow
God
Gone Boy
Good Bluffers
Good Morning
Good Morning Revolution
Good Morning Stalingrad
"Good" Negro
Good Reason
Goodbye Christ
Got to Live Blues
Graduation
Grandma
Grandpa's Stories
The Grass Widow Blues
Grave Yard
Great Day
Green Memory
Greetings
Grief
Grocery Store
Growth
Gunner
Gypsies
The Gypsy
Gypsy Man
Gypsy Melodies
Hard Bad Luck
Hard Daddy
Hard Luck (When hard luck overtakes you)
Hard Luck (When the ball don't fall)
Hard Times
Hard to See
Harlem
Harlem Bar
Harlem Call
Harlem Dance Hall
Harlem Girl's Lament
Harlem Night
Harlem Night Song
Harlem River Blues
Harlem Sweeties
Has to Be
Havana Dreams
Heart
Heartache Blues
Heaven
Helen Keller
Here to Stay
Hero-International Brigade: Spain, 1935
Hey!
High
History
Homecoming
Homecoming Game, 1962
Homesick Blues
Honey Babe
Honey Dew Blues
Hope
Hope for Harlem
Hospitalized Child
Hostess
A House in Taos
House Rent Blues
How About It, Dixie
How Thin a Blanket
How To Tell Love
Human Race
Human World
Hurry
[I Am Sick With Starshine]
I Am The Poor White
I Await The Day
I Dream a World
I, Too
I Want Some Changes Made
If-He-Comes-Back Blues
If-ing
If You Would
Imagine
Improvisation
In a Troubled Key
In Explanation of Our Times
In Henry's Back Yard
In Time of Silver Rain
India
Indonesia
The Innocent
Integration
Interne At Provident
Irish Wake
Island (Between two rivers)
Island (Wave of sorrow)
Is Love?
It Worries Me
Jazz on the Heartstrings
Jazzonia
Jim Crow
Jim Crow's Last Stand
Jingle By Way of a Raise
Jitney
Joe Louis
Johannesburg Mines
Johnny Writes Home from Spain
Joy
Judge William Hastie
Judgement Day
Juice Joint: Northern City
Juke Box Love Song
Juliet
Julliard Student Struggles With Instrumentation
Junior Addict
Just an Ordinary Guy
Just Icing
Justice
Kid Sleepy
The Kids In School With Me
Kids in the Park
Kids Who Die
Killers
Ku Klux
Labor: A poem for Labor Day
Labor Storm
Ladder
Lady in Cabaret
Lady's Boogie
Lady's One-Time Blues
Lament for Dark Peoples
Lament Over Love
Last Call
The Last Man Living
Last Prince
Late Corner
Late Hour Conversation
Late Last Night
Late-to-Work Blues
Layette
Lenin
Lenox Avenue
Lenox Avenue: Midnight
Let All Men Pray
Let America Be America Again
Let's Face It
Let's See Some Changes Made
Letter (Dear Mama...)
Letter to the Academy
Liberal Living in Encroaching Ghetto
Liberals
Life (Life-that old commodity...)
Life (Life took a pair of dice...)
Life Is Fine
Lincoln Monument: Washington
Link
Listen, Woman
Litany
Little Cats
Little Dreams
Little Green Tree Blues
Little Julie
Little Lyric (of Great Importance)
Little Note to You
Little Ole Baby Blues
Little Old Letter Blues
Little Song (Carmencita loves Patrick...)
Little Song (Lonely people...)
Little Song for the Children of the Antilles
Little Song on Housing
Little Songs
Little Songs (There Are Certain Songs)
Little Union Maiden Out On Strike
Live and Let Live
Lone
Lonely Nocturne
Lonesome Corner
Lonesome Place
