PagineClaude McKay was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States in 1912. His sonnet “If We Must Die” (1919), written during that year’s wave of racist violence, and his book Harlem Shadows (1922) helped launch the Harlem Renaissance.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. Claude McKay’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 17 of them here or as a flip book.
Harlem Shadows (1922), Home to Harlem (novel) (1928).