Cynthia H. Roberts
Adoff, Arnold, ed.
I am The Darker Brother
. New York: The Macmillan company, 1968.
An anthology of modern poems by negro Americans.
Adoff, Arnold,
All The Colors of the Race
. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1982.
Giovanni, Nikki,
Spin A Soft Black Song
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1971.
Hughes, Langston,
Don’t You Turn Back
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1969.
Scholes, Robert.
Elements of Poetry
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
A valuable book for discussing poetic techniques and commenting on various poems.
Wallace, Robert.
Writing Poems
. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 2nd edition, 1987.
The book contains some stimulating techniques to help students write poetry.