James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Excerpt from The Book of American Negro Poetry: Chosen and Edited With an Essay on the Negro's Creative Genius There is, perhaps, a better excuse for giving an Anthology of American Negro Poetry to the public than can be offered for many of the anthologies that have recently been issued. The public, generally speaking, does not know that there are American Negro poets - to supply this lack of information is, alone, a work worthy of somebody's effort.

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