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There’s a long, and strong, tradition of African-American writing stretching back centuries, and the annals of literature are filled with amazing African-American poets and poems. Below, we introduce just ten of the very best poems by African-American poets, covering over 250 years.
February is Black History Month, and to celebrate the contributions Black poets have made, and continue to make, to the richness of American poetry, we asked twelve contemporary Black poets from across the country to choose one poem that should be read this month and to tell us a bit about why.
2 Ιουν 2020 · From Langston Hughes’ 1926 poem I, too, through to Black, performed at the 2020 BRIT Awards by south London rapper Dave, this is a list of some of the brilliant poems written by black writers...
18 Φεβ 2021 · Here are ten poems that explore past and present, pain and love, language and family, history and identity, all written by contemporary Black poets. They’re each available for free download: “Let Me Handle My Business, Damn,” Morgan Parker
13 Οκτ 2009 · Whatever the forms Negro poetry has taken in the last century, ranging from conventional English couplets and quatrains to free verse, from light lyrics to the well knit sonnet, from the blues and the spirituals to the highly personalized beatnik concepts of some of the younger black poets in Greenwich Village or San Francisco, the subject ...
Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture. Illustration by Loveis Wise. Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”. Citizen: “Some years there exists a wanting to escape...”. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
16 Απρ 2015 · In 1996 the Academy of American Poets dubbed April National Poetry Month to celebrate the richness of American poetry. In its honor, here are 20 black American poets who have shown...
