Websites
This one's got everything you ever wanted to know about ol' Jean, plus a ton of great scoop on "Portrait." So click away, Shmoopers.
The go-to for all things poetry, Poets.org has the goods on our guy.
Break out the tweed, Shmoopers. It's time to hear from the academics on "Portrait in Georgia."
Video
… for a biographical video. This video doesn't tell you much you couldn't glean elsewhere, but it's nice to have it all in one place.
Audio
Here's a reading of another Toomer classic. And be sure to let Shmoop know if you can find a reading of "Portrait in Georgia," too. We came up empty.
Images
Check out this famous portrait of a dapperly dressed Toomer by painter Weinold Reiss.
Does anyone else think he looks like David Strathairn?
Books
Anyone will tell you that the novel containing "Portrait in Georgia" is well worth a read. Or two or three.
This biography by Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard Eldridge has quite the title.
Would one of those terrors be lynching?