Articles related to "African American Poet"

Phillis Wheatley was snatched from her homeland at the age of seven and brought to the New World as a slave. She proved to be of superior intelligence and talent.

Read more than two centuries of African-American love letters from slaves, Harlem Renaissance writers, celebrities, and everyday people.

The idea that a black female slave born in Africa could compose poems in English was preposterous to many people in early America. So she had to pass a test.

Miller's poetry is thoughtful and kind, but it also forces us to deal with the harsh realities of love, family, racism, and war.

Brief biography of Langston Hughes - his life, career, and poetry - a leading author of Harlem Renaissance and creator of character 'Jesse B Simple.'

Many memorable poets did their best writing during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s.

Spend the day or weekend at a university in Ohio. There are many events, activities and sites to see on college campuses.

Dayton is one of Ohio's historical cities located in the Miami Valley, an area rich with history and opportunity for new growth.

Author Joyce Johnson's memoir about life with Jack Kerouac and beyond.

Contemporary poet Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Guard" after a successful debut with her "Domestic Work" and "Bollocq's Ophelia."

Philip Freneau was the first American born poet, who earned a reputation as a revolutionary pamphleteer satirizing the British in the struggle for American independence.

In this 1966 poem, Hayden depicts a father's beneficent acts, which, at the time, went unacknowledged.

The evolution of Black Poetry has typically been excluded from mainstream literature.