Women of the Harlem Renaissance — Anthologies for a New Generation

CELEBRATING WOMEN WRITERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Discover the brilliant, significant, and nearly forgotten short stories, essays, plays, and poems by the women who helped forge an African American renaissance of art and ideals.

To climb a hill that hungers for the sky,
To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth,
To watch a young bird, veering, learn to fly,
To give a still, stark poem shining birth.

Helene Johnson — Fulfillment (first stanza)