Paul Laurence Dunbar

This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second...

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 28th, 2009. Author - Paul Laurence Dunbar. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published...

The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave. This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people.In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century, when American...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2013.Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet. Born in 1872 in...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for June 21st, 2009. Author - Paul Laurence Dunbar. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 10th, 2010. Author - Paul Laurence Dunbar. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Mystery by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 12, 2012,Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of October by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 7th, 2007. Author - Paul Laurence Dunbar. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Retort by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009. Author - Paul Laurence Dunbar. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Pool by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 20, 2012.Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright of the...

The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the...