Robert Thomas Kerlin was a white American literary critic and proponent of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his collections The Voice of the Negro (1920), Contemporary Poetry of the Negro (1921), and Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923). This volume includes works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes. W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, Anne Spencer, and Georgia Douglas Johnson; and is illustrated by photographs of the poets and sculptures by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), an African-American woman noted for her innovative celebration of Afrocentric themes.