"Trouble in de Kitchen"; "When Malindy Sings"; "We Wear the Mask"

Poems

By: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Date: 1896–1906

Source: Dunbar, Paul Laurence. "Trouble in de Kitchen"; "When Malindy Sings"; "We Wear the Mask." Reprinted in The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1994. Available online at http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/~triggs/AAP/foo13.pdf; website home page: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/~triggs/AAP/ (accessed May 19, 2003).

About the Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), one of the first African Americans to receive national recognition as a poet and novelist, was born in Dayton, Ohio. The son of former slaves, Dunbar published his first volume of verse, Oak and Ivy, at...