Tatum, Laurence Carlyle — Log Cabin Lyrics
A young Black poet joins Texas memory and 1918 Los Angeles print culture in a large, complicated book of lyric, dialect, faith, and song.
Eloise Bibb Thompson — Poems and Later Recoveries
The complete twenty-six-poem text of Eloise Bibb’s precocious 1895 debut, joined by two later poems, the original dedication and preface, archival images, a corrected works list, and a full biography of the New Orleans poet who became a teacher, Howard settlement worker, Los Angeles journalist, Catholic activist, pioneering Black screenwriter, nationally produced playwright, and Harlem-era fiction writer.
Dorothy Vena Johnson — Collected Poems
A poet of racial justice and childlike wonder, Dorothy Vena Johnson also spent more than forty years turning Los Angeles classrooms, libraries, galleries, and stages into places where Black art could be made public.
Eva Carter Buckner — Collected Poems
Before Los Angeles could forget her, Eva Carter Buckner wrote Black soldiers, suffragists, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Abraham Lincoln, and women’s ambition into poems meant to be sung, recited, and used. A seamstress, painter, club leader, and NAACP organizer, she turned verse into public action—and made citizenship answer for its promises.