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Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes

Book by Rosey E Pool; Hand and Flower Press, 1962

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American poetry--African American authors, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

As to No Words ,--this poem was salvaged from a longer piece...rather than poetry. The present poem "crystallizes better than anything...the South; the rise of new African nations, the new pride of black...styles are going out and short African coiffures are coming in...
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The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference

Book by Schomburg Centerfor Research in Black Culture; John Wiley & Sons, 1999

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African Americans--Encyclopedias, African Americans--History--Encyclopedias

Collections: History, Entire Library

...slavement. 1738 Africans escaping...bondage in the American colonies...and Native Americans), the first...English by an African American-the poem is not published...a book (Poems on Various...enslaved Africans argue that...principles of the American Revolution...publishes his poem To Miss Phyllis...thousand African Americans serve as...
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

Book by James C. Hall; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

African American Arts--20th Century, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Social Life And Customs--20th Century, Modernism (Art)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--United States, United States--History--1961-1969, United States--Intellectual Life--20th Century, United States--Social Life And Customs--1945-1970

Collections: History, Entire Library

...striking black history poems, especially those focused...prime entanglement. His poems celebrating Frederick...can be found in his poem A Ballad of Remembrance...significant changes in American society between these...as a poet and as an African-American. The title poem grew...
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I Will Wear No Chain!: A Social History of African-American Males

Book by Christopher B. Booker; Praeger Publishers, 2000

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African American Men--History, African American Men--Social Conditions, Masculinity--United States--History, Sex Role--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...prison yard, he raises this question to his fellow black prisoners, who freely admitted their distaste for African American women. Cleaver poem, "To a White Girl," is illustrative of his love-hate emotional relationship with white women. He...
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Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II

Book by Maureen Honey; University of Missouri Press, 1999

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African American Women--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...found. There are six poems and one short story...study. One of the poems appeared in a collection by the African American poet Owen Dodson...art. Another Dodson poem, Black Mother Praying...activist. The four other poems are all by women and...

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Journal Articles on: african american poem

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Marginal Spaces, Marginal Texts: Alice Dunbar-nelson and the African American Prose Poem

Journal article by Adenike Marie Davidson; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2006

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African Americans, Poetry, Short stories, Women

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...nelson and the African American Prose Poem by Adenike...prose - prose poems. Hence, early...them as prose poems. Speaking...specifically about the African American prose poet...American Prose Poems," argues...The prose poem becomes an...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar's Performances and the Epistolary Dialect Poem

Journal article by Nadia Nurhussein; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American writers--Works, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Criticism and interpretation, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Speeches, lectures and essays, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Works

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...a Midwestern American literary tradition...tradition of African American art...epistolary dialect poem written by a...epistolary dialect poem serves as a microcosm...epistolary dialect poems into dialect...Letters in Dunbars poems are often kept...versions of the poem available in...specializes in African American poetry. She...
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African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems

Journal article by Eric Gardner; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, African American poetry--Works, African American women poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American women poets--Personalities, African American women poets--Works, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

African American Womens Poetry...published poems in the Recorder...published only a poem or two in...Recorder poems and the direct...Century American Womens Poetry...defining African Americans as human...future of African Americans, and events...three of the poems above, are...Harriet E. Poem: "Sacred...
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Reading South: Poets Mean & Poems Signify - a Note on Origins

Journal article by Jerry W. Ward Jr.; African American Review, Vol. 27, 1993

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African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American poetry--African American authors, Fabio, Sarah Webster--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Language and culture--Social aspects

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...Reading South: Poets mean poems signify - a note on origins...moment in the history of African American poetry that will not...their oral heritage. The poems printed in Rainbow Signs...Things (A Hoodoo Nature Poem)" on facing pages...how Fabio meant for the poems to be read? In her authors...
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Claude McKay. Complete Poems

Journal article by Gary E. Holcomb; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Complete Poems (Book)--Book reviews

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...University of Illinois Presss American Poetry Recovery Series...Negro author. Complete Poems is a volume that no...Amassing over 300 poems, Maxwells collection...xxiii). Complete Poems gainsays several lingering...City" (1926), a poem that not only visits...passed a resolution that African Americans in the US South constituted...

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Magazine Articles on: african american poem

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NBA Star Grant Hill Shares Prized African American Art Collection

Magazine article by Joy Sewing; The Crisis, Vol. 111, September 2004

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African Americans, Art exhibits, Athletes, Collections, Hill, Grant, Professional basketball

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...Grant Hill Shares Prized African American Art Collection by Joy...bought his first piece of African American art. The print...Grant Hill Collection of African American Art." The title comes from the 1942 poem, "For My People...the first edition of Poems on Various Subjects...
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Looking through the Eyes of Injustice: Integrating Poetry and African-american History

Magazine article by Cassandra Pierce-Thomas; Multicultural Education, Vol. 14, Summer 2007

Subjects:

African Americans, American history, Gossip, Guidelines, Language arts, Learning, Poetry, Prejudice

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...bringing in an African-American History...great African- Americans and their accomplishments...each line of the poem, and the students wrote a class poem about Jackie...wrote their bio-poems and Star Thomas...shed light on African- American folk culture...this type of poem, the students...through their poems. Star achieved...
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Phylicia Rashad: Wins Historic Tony Award to Become the First African-American Woman to Win in Lead Actress Category

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 59, August 2004

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African American actors--Achievements and awards, African American actresses--Achievements and awards, Rashad, Phylicia--Achievements and awards

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...Award to Become the First African-American Woman to Win in Lead...Rashad became the first African-American woman to win...from a Langston Hughes poem inspired the title...first play written by an African-American woman to be...
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How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

Magazine article by Adam Kirsch; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Spring 1999

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Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Book)

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...KIRSCH HOW TO READ A POEM AND FALL IN LOVE...the small world of American poetry today, it...Pinskys Favorite Poem Project to record citizens reading poems; the American Poetry...actual nuances an American reader will never know--poems by Hungarians...qualities that make each poem what it is. Indeed...book, discusses an African-American work...
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Music of Farwell, Hadley, Herbert, Macdowell and Parker: American Orchestral Compositions (1890-1916)/edward Macdowell: the Symphonic Poems/william Grant Still: Afro-american Symphony

Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 20, August 2005

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Classical music, Krueger, Karl, Musical recordings, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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...Macdowell and Parker: American Orchestral Compositions...Macdowell: the Symphonic Poems/william Grant Still...MacDowell: The Symphonic Poems. Royal Philharmonic...captivated by indigenous African-American and Indian...in the Symphonic Poem "Vathek" by Horatio...operettas. His Symphonic Poem, "Hero and Leander...including four Symphonic Poems, recorded on their...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american poem

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First Public Statue of a Black Woman; (1) Bond of Hope: The Completed Model of Aleix Barbat's 1ft Statue of a Mother and Child (2)Artists: Cecile Nobrega with the Late Sculptor Ian Walters and, above, an Extract from Her Poem

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 5, 2008

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African Americans, Artists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Walters and, above, an Extract from Her Poem. Byline: VALENTINE LOW WHEN this sculpture...slave trade," shesaid.. "For us the poem and the statue is about hope. It is a...Walters and, above, an extract from her poem THE BRONZE WOMAN
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Poem Sent from Wales to Obama

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 15, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Poem Sent from Wales to...Clarke, has sent a poem to President Elect...promotion agency. The two poems mark the inauguration...Tuesday of the first African American to hold the office...Academi to write a poem in honour of the historic...
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Songs, Poems of War Mostly Forgotten

Newspaper article by Peter Cliffe; The Washington Times, July 8, 2000

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Lee, Robert E.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Songs, poems of war mostly forgotten...war horns blare on an American battlefield never could...period, the majority of poems and songs have faded...New York judge. His poem appeared in an 1867...portraying the role of African Americans in the Civil War. For...dedicated to preserving American history, sponsors...
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LIVE 8...SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2005, HYDE: African Queen; Take Up the White Man's Burden the Savage Wars of Peace Fill Full the Mouth of Famine and Bid the Sickness Cease RUDYARD KIPLING

Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), July 3, 2005

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Big Brother, Kipling, Rudyard

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Home Counties? Africans were forced into the...notoriously jingoistic poem celebrating the white...packed the event with American and European acts...begrudgingly add a few African musicians to the line...enough to alleviate African poverty, while refusing to see Africans as anything but meek...
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Camp for Girls at Risk of HIV Aims to Boost Self Esteem

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 15, 2011

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African Americans--Health aspects, HIV (Viruses)--Health aspects, HIV (Viruses)--Prevention, HIV (Viruses)--Risk factors, HIV infection--Health aspects, HIV infection--Prevention, HIV infection--Risk factors, HIV infections--Health aspects, HIV infections--Prevention, HIV infections--Risk factors, HIV--Health aspects, HIV--Prevention, HIV--Risk factors

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with portraits of accomplished African-American women such as Coretta Scott King...as well as Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" ("What happens to...Jet Magazines and books by African-American authors lined tables, across...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american poem

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Gershwin, George

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...GEORGE gursh win, 1898 1937, American composer, b. Brooklyn...Concerto in F (1925); An American in Paris (1928), a tone poem incorporating elements of...Heyward), a folk opera about African-American life, which includes the...
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Dove, Rita

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

DOVE, RITA 1952 , American poet, b. Akron, Ohio...poetry collection, Ten Poems, was published in 1977...History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps...as in the slavery poem sequence of The Yellow...laureate, the first African American to hold the...
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Angelou, Maya

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...mi an j loo, 1928 , African-American writer and performer...she was active in the African-American political...Ghana as editor of the African Review. Her six autobiographical...Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...speakers elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...literature ; and South African literature . The...His unfinished epic poem The Faerie Queen...satirical narrative poems, notably Absalom...forgery the Ossian poems of James Macpherson...medieval" Rowley poems of Thomas Chatterton...autobiographical poem, "The Prelude...

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