The Creation By: James Weldon Johnson

The Creation,” written by James Weldon Johnson in 1920, is one of the most famous poems from his collection God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Johnson, a prominent writer, civil rights activist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, crafted the poem to capture the power, rhythm, and emotion of traditional African American sermon style. In “The Creation,” he retells the biblical story of God making the world, but he does so with vivid imagery, musical language, and a deeply human