NOTE This two-record album includes forty-nine poems by twenty-eight 20th century black poets. These poems were chosen from hundreds of published and unpublished poems, many of which were presented to classes on tape and discussed with students and teachers. The poems included here were chosen to be recorded because they represent a spectrum of modern, black, poetic expression in structure, theme and emotional content. The protest, love, anger, personal incident, historical perspective, and portraiture inherent in these selections offer insight into 20th century black literary America. The forty-nine poems included on these records with explanatory notes and suggestions, may be purchased in book form under title SPECTRUM IN BLACK POETRY.