This Week Take a Hike With Helene Johnson
Helene Johnson was one of the youngest writers from the Harlem Renaissance, and best remembered for her poetry. Johnson published many poems in small magazines during the 1920s and early 1930s, including Fire!! magazine, Opportunity, the Messenger, the African-American magazine Saturday Evening Quill, and Vanity Fair. Additionally, Johnson’s work was anthologized in Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 1976); American Negro Poetry (Hill and Wang, 1963); The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949 (Doubleday, 1951), edited by Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes; and James Weldon Johnson’s The Book of American Negro Poetry (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922). She released around two dozen uncollected poems during her lifetime. This week, take a hike with Helene Johnson.
