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Posted: May 27th, 2006 12:04 PM |
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The earliest African American poets were Jupiter Harmon, George Moses Horton, and Phillis Wheatley -- all slaves who usually wrote poetry with religious themes.
Following the Civil War Paul Laurence Dunbar achieved fame with lyric and dialect poems for the most part. Both he and William Stanley Braithwaite avoided any mention of any racial injustice in their writing.
During the Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen all won recognition as major poets.
Contemporary poets have included Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, Jay Wright, and Maya Angelou. Dove won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her 1986 book Thomas and Beulah, and is currently the poet laureate of the U.S.
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Posted: May 28th, 2006 03:32 AM |
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Posted: Aug 9th, 2007 10:10 PM |
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good-afternoon vizhenz,
thanks for posting this info, as yes i have heard of all of these Great poets...
have a nice day...
sincerely,
c.t.adams-///
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Posted: Aug 9th, 2007 11:24 PM |
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Yep! and I actually have a copy of Jupiter Harmons 'Salvation of Christ with Penetential Cries’. yep yep.... sure do!
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