[1] Hundreds of poems were written and published by African Americans during the era, which covered a wide variety of themes.
[2] The Poetry Foundation wrote that poets in the Harlem Renaissance "explored the beauty and pain of black life and sought to define themselves and their community outside of white stereotypes.
"[1] Poets such as Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Countee Cullen became well known for their poetry, which was often inspired by jazz.
[2] Cullen, who felt that poetry was "instrumental to the cultural development of a race," edited the anthology when he was twenty-four years old.
[3] A review in the American Journal of Sociology noted that Cullen had tried to "direct attention to some of the younger and less-known Negro writers.
[7] In 1974 a column in The American Poetry Review that was written by the poet June Jordan covered the anthology.