Dandridge appears in Negro Poets and Their Poems
Poet involved
What happened
In 1923, Raymond G. Dandridge was included in Robert T. Kerlin's anthology Negro Poets and Their Poems. The anthology placed the Cincinnati poet among a wider field of African American writers. It helped carry his work beyond Price Hill and into national literary circulation.
Literary impact
Anthology inclusion confirmed that Dandridge's poems mattered within the developing canon of African American poetry. It especially helped preserve his social protest poems and dialect verse for readers interested in the literary bridge between Dunbar and the Harlem Renaissance.
Source: Project Gutenberg
