September's Featured Poet

Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Sep 20, 2007

I will feature at least one poem by the featured poet, depending on how important the poet's works are.

Jamaican poet Claude Mckay was 22 years old, when he came to the United States to attend the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He had published two volumes of poetry in Jamaica, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, both published in 1912, the year he immigrated.

For an analysis of his sonnet, “America,” please visit “McKay’s ‘America’: A Testimony of Love and Hate.”

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