- Poets.org: Sterling A. Brown
Biography and selected poems for the poet known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of black people and their experiences, and the incorporation of African American folklore and contemporary idiom into his verse.
www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/203
- Modern American Poetry: Sterling A. Brown
Offers an essay on the writer's life and career, critical analyses on several of his poems, illustrations to his first book Southern Road, texts of essays and poems, and a photo dossier on sharecropping.
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/brown.htm
- Sterling A. Brown in the Classroom
Tips on how to teach the African American writer, who used vernacular, folklore, and humor to create portraits of black life.
www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/browns.html
- Sterling Brown
Features a brief biography and selected poems by the writer and teacher, who is also responsible, though unsung, for compiling the first anthologies of African writings.
www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99S/blues/Literary/Brown
- Beltway: Sterling Brown
Tribute essay on the first Poet Laureate of Washington, D.C. by E. Ethelbert Miller.
www.washingtonart.com/beltway/brown.html
- Born Again Black Poetry: Sterling Brown
Texts of Sister Lou and When de Saints Go Ma'chin Home.
www.goodmorals.org/poetry/index.asp?poetlist=List-BrownS.htm
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