The complete online text of The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), poet and novelist, was the first African American author to gain national recognition and a wide popular audience. Born June 27, 1872, the son of a former slave in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar achieved a formal edu...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the most popular American poets of his time, was also the first black poet to attain national and international recognition. Booker T. Washington called him the "Poet Laureate of the Negro race," and William Dean Howells laud...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the most popular American poets of his time, was also the first black poet to attain national and international recognition. Booker T. Washington called him the "Poet Laureate of the Negro race," and William Dean Howells laud...

In the early years of the twentieth century, Washington, D.C.'s racially segregated M Street High School was one of the top-quality secondary schools in the United States. Black scholars with Ph.D.s, unable to find work at predominantly white colleges or universities, taught at M...

For Doris Craig and Michael Olshausen A white substitute teacher At an all-Black public high school, He sought me out saying my poems Showed promise, range, a gift, And had I ever heard of T. S. Eliot? No. Then Robert Hayden perhaps?...