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Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [ 1][ 2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...
Amanda Gorman. Amanda S. C. Gorman[ 1] (born March 7, 1998) [ 2] is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, [1] making her the first African American to ...
Poetry of Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, reciting her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou, an African-American writer who is best known for her seven autobiographies, was also a prolific and successful poet. She has been called "the black woman's poet laureate", and her poems have been ...
October 17, 2022 at 7:52 PM. In honor of National Black Poetry Day, here are 20 contemporary Black poets we think you should be reading all year round. Every year, the mainstream literary gates ...
the African American Women Writers Conference at the University of the District of Columbia; Wilkinson was appointed Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 2021. She is the first Black woman appointed to that position. [16] [17] Wilkinson is featured in several television shows: "Coal Black Voices" (2001) "GED Connections," Kentucky Educational ...
Butler was one of the first Black women to gain prominence as a science fiction writer. ... Lorde received plenty of recognition and was named New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991-1992. 15 ...
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937 ...