Jones is included in The Book of American Negro Poetry
Poet involved
What happened
In 1922, James Weldon Johnson included Jones's A Song of Thanks in The Book of American Negro Poetry, published in New York. The anthology gathered major African American poets of the period. Jones appeared alongside better-known writers of the Harlem Renaissance era.
Literary impact
This anthology gave Jones a durable place in the canon of early twentieth-century African American poetry. The inclusion of A Song of Thanks helped preserve his formal, devotional, and national lyric voice for later readers.
Source: Wikipedia
