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.

Tracklist:

Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Dawn
Langston Hughes: Youth
Did You Feed My Cow?
Bed Bug
Precious Things
I'm A Round Town Gent/Take Yo' Time Miss Lucy
Beatrice M. Murphy: Signs
Waring Cuney: No Images
Langston Hughes: Florida Road Workers
Waring Cuney: Troubled Jesus
Langston Hughes: Ma Lord
Countee Cullen: For My Grandmother
Arna Bontemps: Miracles
Claude McKay: Spring In New Hampshire
Claude McKay: Home Thoughts
Countee Cullen: Brown Boy And Girl Under The Mistletoe
Wesley Curtright: Heart Of The Woods
Frank Horne: To James
Arna Bontemps: Dark Girl
Langston Hughes: In The Time Of Silver Rain
Countee Cullen: Red
Josephine Copeland: New Orleans - Zulu King (At Mardi Gras)
Claude McKay: Tropics In New York
Langston Hughes: Trip - San Francisco
Fenton Johnson: Rulers, Philadelphia
Langston Hughes: Heaven - The City Called Heaven
Claude McKay: The Spanish Needle
Langston Hughes: The Snail
Countee Cullen: The Unknown Color
Claude McKay: North And South
Sterling Brown: Sister Lou
Fenton Johnson: Aunt Jane Allen
Fenton Johnson: The Banjo Player
Langston Hughes: Alabama Earth (At Booker Washington's Grave)
Countee Cullen: For A Lady I Know
Sterling Brown: After Winter
Langston Hughes: Winter Sweetness
George Douglas Johnson: My Little Dreams
Countee Cullen: For A Poet
Langston Hughes: Dreams
Arna Bontemps: Day Breakers

UPC: 093074504420
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

Arna Bontemps - An Anthology of African American Poetry (CD)