PagineJames Weldon Johnson was a poet, novelist, diplomat and civil rights leader. With his brother J. Rosamond Johnson he wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1900), and he edited The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922). “The Creation” became part of God’s Trombones (1927), his sermons in verse.
Poems published before 1930, now in the public domain.
Source editions for the poems on this page (public domain):
Yes. James Weldon Johnson’s poems published before 1930 are in the public domain, and you can read 2 of them here or as a flip book.
The Book of American Negro Poetry (editor) (1922), God’s Trombones (1927).