"Have you ever seen good / And bad stick together?"

For Women’s History Month, read these newly added poems to our Poets.org archive: 

Lula Lowe Weeden was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on February 4, 1918. Weeden published work in Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk when she was only nine years old. As an adult, Weeden was acquainted with anthropologist Irene Diggs, scholar and anthologist Alain Locke, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Though she still occasionally wrote prose, she devoted herself to a career in art education in Denver. Her poems were anthologized in the U.S. in the 1940s and again in the Netherlands in the 1950s. 

“Dance” 
“The Little Dandelion” 
“The Stream” 
“Robin Red Breast” 
“Have You Ever Seen It?”
“Me Alone”

Gladys May Casely Hayford, also known as Aquah Laluah, was born on May 11, 1904, in Axim on the Gold Coast (now, Ghana). By the age of twenty, Casely Hayford decided to become a writer, noting in her short biography in Caroling Dusk that she wanted “to write for Africa […] to imbue [her] own people with the idea of their own beauty, superiority and individuality […].”

“Baby Cobina” 
“The Serving Girl” 
“Rainy Season Love Song” 
“Nativity”