An Anthology of African American Poetry for Young People

Arna Bontemps

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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

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101	Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Dawn	Arna Bontemps	0:27
102	Langston Hughes: Youth	Arna Bontemps	0:20
103	Did You Feed My Cow?	Arna Bontemps	1:05
104	Bed Bug	Arna Bontemps	0:40
105	Precious Things	Arna Bontemps	0:25
106	I'm a Round Town Gent / Take Yo' Time Miss Lucy	Arna Bontemps	0:27
107	Beatrice M. Murphy: Signs	Arna Bontemps	0:23
108	Waring Cuney: No Images	Arna Bontemps	0:35
109	Langston Hughes: Florida Road Workers	Arna Bontemps	0:46
110	Waring Cuney: Troubled Jesus	Arna Bontemps	0:25
111	Langston Hughes: Ma Lord	Arna Bontemps	0:51
112	Countee Cullen: For My Grandmother	Arna Bontemps	0:22
113	Arna Bontemps: Miracles	Arna Bontemps	0:46
114	Claude McKay: Spring in New Hampshire	Arna Bontemps	0:49
115	Claude McKay: Home Thoughts	Arna Bontemps	1:03
116	Countee Cullen: Brown Boy and Girl Under the Mistletoe	Arna Bontemps	0:35
117	Wesley Curtright: Heart of the Woods	Arna Bontemps	0:29
118	Frank Horne: To James	Arna Bontemps	1:25
119	Arna Bontemps: Dark Girl	Arna Bontemps	0:38
120	Langston Hughes: In the Time of Silver Rain	Arna Bontemps	0:32
121	Countee Cullen: Red	Arna Bontemps	0:32
122	Josephine Copeland: New Orleans: Zulu King (at Mardi Gras)	Arna Bontemps	1:07
123	Claude McKay: Tropics in New York	Arna Bontemps	0:58
124	Langston Hughes: Trip: San Francisco	Arna Bontemps	0:30
125	Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia	Arna Bontemps	0:52
126	Langston Hughes: Heaven: The City Called Heaven	Arna Bontemps	0:29
127	Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle	Arna Bontemps	1:17
128	Langston Hughes: The Snail	Arna Bontemps	0:19
129	Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color	Arna Bontemps	0:27
130	Claude McKay: North and South	Arna Bontemps	1:16
131	Sterling Brown: Sister Lou	Arna Bontemps	1:56
132	Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen	Arna Bontemps	0:50
133	Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player	Arna Bontemps	0:49
134	Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (at Booker Washington's grave)	Arna Bontemps	0:54
135	Countee Cullen: For a Lady I Know	Arna Bontemps	0:19
136	Sterling Brown: After Winter	Arna Bontemps	1:26
137	Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness	Arna Bontemps	0:19
138	George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams	Arna Bontemps	0:31
139	Countee Cullen: For a Poet	Arna Bontemps	0:37
140	Langston Hughes: Dreams	Arna Bontemps	0:28
141	Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers	Arna Bontemps	0:28

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