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Books on: african american poet

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Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Poets, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...shows that Chinese American poets can remake themselves...invention of new Chinese-American images in Lees poems...reality of Chinese-Americans lives, yet his art...universe, which is the poets highest nature, his...phase of being an Asian American poet, Lee answers, I have...Asian-American, African-American, whatever...
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

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American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Male Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Gay Men's Writings, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Gay Men--United States--Biography--Dictionaries, Poets, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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...the author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism forthcoming...Greenwood, 2000 , and African American Autobiographers Greenwood...a widely published poet and scholar, teaches...E. Rosekrans teaches American Indian literature at...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists: Before the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1994

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African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, African Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

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...greatly esteemed as a poet in his own brief lifetime...seems today the major African-American poet before Sterling Brown...Coleridge-Taylor, the poets James Whitcomb Riley...major African-American poet. The celebrated lyric...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

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African Americans In Literature, American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Harlem Renaissance, Poetry

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...Keats but as a black poet who had identified Keats...to be irrelevant to an African-American poet, but Cullen prophesied...The People , Yes .Few poets have been more consistently...between Dunbar and the African-American poets of highest...
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Modern Black American Poets and Dramatists

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1995

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African Americans In Literature, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism

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...MELANCHOLY IRONY that the greatest African-American poet is one of the least read, because...Dogon mythology, Southwestern American and Mexican legend, Holderlin...immensely learned poet, both in African culture and in European literature...

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Journal Articles on: african american poet

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"The Poet in the World, the World in the Poet": Cyrus Cassells's and Elizabeth Alexander's Versions of Post-Soul Cosmopolitanism

Journal article by Malin Pereira; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American poets--Works, Alexander, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation, Alexander, Elizabeth--Works, Cassells, Cyrus Curtis III--Criticism and interpretation, Cassells, Cyrus Curtis III--Works, Internationalism--Portrayals

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...about a poet), provides...to include poets or poetry...that "the African-American literary...Lavan Younger Poet Award of the Academy of American Poets and a Lannan...poems deploy African American...better for African Americans. One poem...on African American history...studied with poet and educator...
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Saint's Progeny: Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic

Journal article by Douglas Steward; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

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African American gays--Literature, African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Race identity, Gay and lesbian studies--Social aspects, Saint, Assotto--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...that characterize American nationalism itself...mentioning several poets whose work is displayed...bookstores than in the African-American section...67). When a poet "cites" a stereotype...posture reclines on an American flag while reaching...place on top of an American flag only serves...suggesting that the poet was forced to fall...that nourish the poets of Milking Black...
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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...moment in the history of African American poetry that will not...current rap artists/ poets scratch, sample, and...another Black Southern poet early in this century...enabled some Black South poets to give priority. The...
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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights

Journal article by Joanne V. Gabbin; MELUS, Vol. 32, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Book)--Book reviews

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...Genius: The African American Bardic Poet...American Bardic Poet from Slavery...in which poets combine the...resolved African American double consciousness...Renaissance poets with Countee...To make a poet black, and...that these poets gesture towards...genius in African American poetry...
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Distant Resonances: Contemporary Scottish Women Poets and African-American Music

Journal article by Laura Severin; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 39, 2006

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African American music--Influence, African Americans--Influence, African Americans--Music, Authors, Scottish--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Scottish--Works, Scottish poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Scottish poetry--Social aspects, Scottish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Scottish writers--Works, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Works

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...Scottish Women Poets and African-American Music. by Laura Severin...impact of the African-American musical tradition on...borrowings of African-American culture are a well...the Irish and African Americans. As Tracy Mishkin...contemporary Scottish women poets, where the alliance...exclude the female poet, leaving her no space...

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Magazine Articles on: african american poet

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Where Poets Explore Their Pain While Others Beware the Dog

Magazine article by Robin M. Caudell; American Visions, Vol. 14, October 1999

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African American poets--Planning, American poetry--African American authors, Derricotte, Toi--Planning

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WHERE POETS EXPLORE THEIR PAIN WHILE OTHERS...THE DOG by Robin M. Caudell Poet Toi Derricotte once dreamed of a place where African-American poets could retreat in safety and...university and being the only black poet just made me see how important...
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Langston Hughes: 100th Birthday Celebration of the Poet Laureate of Black America

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 57, April 2002

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African American poets--Appreciation, Hughes, Langston--Appreciation, Poets--Appreciation

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...celebration of the poet laureate of Black...Whitaker HE was the most American of American poets. His verse was infused...was definitively African-American and defiantly...also the preferred poet of the hip-hop...Americas most popular poet" in an online poll...Academy of American Poets earlier in the year...
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The Living Langston: Poet Laureate of Black America Honored at 89th Anniversary Celebration

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 46, May 1991

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African American poets--Appreciation, Hughes, Langston--Appreciation, Poetry

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The living Langston: poet laureate of Black America honored at 89th anniversary celebration He was the poet of people, of Black people. He had the...awarding him the Spingarn Medal, "the poet laureate of Negro people." He had known...
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Oprah Throws a Party: Biggest Birthday Bash Honors Poet Maya Angelou

Magazine article by Richard Shay; Ebony, Vol. 48, June 1993

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African American women poets--Rites and ceremonies, Angelou, Maya--Rites and ceremonies, Winfrey, Oprah--Conduct of life

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...a party: biggest birthday bash honors poet Maya Angelou by Richard Shay IN what one...celebrity-filled wonderland in honor of poet Maya Angelous 65th birthday. Guests and...where Angelou is Reynolds Professor of American Studies. Ashford Simpson entertained at...
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Honoring African American Women

Magazine article by Phil W. Petrie; The Crisis, Vol. 114, March 2007

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African Americans, Magazines

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Honoring African American Women by Phil W. Petrie...fine prints by African Americans. Also, award-winning...conversation with acclaimed poet and essayist Mari Evans...asks: "Does having African American congressional committee...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american poet

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Carter a Natural to Write Play about Poet Wheatley

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 7, 2005

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Black History Month, Poets

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

...Natural to Write Play about Poet Wheatley. Byline: Jack...Americas first published African-American poet in the play "Wheatley...means she was the first American whose writing was published...Surely the first published African-American poet would...
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Author, Poet to Appear:

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 17, 2008

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Poets

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Author, Poet to Appear:. Author Sachin...accepted for the 2009 Outstanding African-American Award sponsored by the City of Auroras African-American Heritage Advisory...the community to nominate an African-American in Aurora who exhibits...
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Kind Words for a 'Warrior': Friends Rally for Sick Poet

Newspaper article by Adrienne T. Washington; The Washington Times, July 14, 1997

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

...passionate protest poet has an intriguing...Award-winning poet Ethelbert Miller, director of the African American Resource Center at...one of the best poets in the country...including the Last Poets, Ntozake Shange...words even for the poet to say it," says...
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Poets Find Their Muses between Brush Strokes

Newspaper article by Christine Montgomery Christine Montgomery; The Washington Times, May 15, 1999

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

...the National Museum of American Arts "Picturing Old...reading this Thursday, the poets - all locals - wandered...poetry and was a former poet laureate of Maryland...through Aug. 22. The poets could choose one or several...Galvin, a Chevy Chase poet whose poems have appeared...Miller, director of the African-American Resource Center...
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Friends Mourn Poet of Protest

Newspaper article by Clarence Williams; The Washington Times, October 22, 1999

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

Friends mourn poet of protest by Clarence...stunned by the news of poet Gaston Neals death, but...Lynch, 67, professor of African Studies at the University...formed the New School of African-American Thought, one of the nations...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american poet

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Poet Laureate

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...the United States, the poet laureate is charged with...position was held by 30 poets before a 1985 act of Congress changed the name to poet laureate. In 1986...States. Since then, American poets laureate have been Richard...Rita Dove (the first African-American laureate...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...by presenting American folk stories...the leading poet of America with...movement were such poets as Joseph Rodman...the hearts of Americans with glib...were strongly American, and transcendentalists...Brahmin," poet, and critic...Accomplished poets with idiosyncratic...of feminist poet Adrienne Rich...Vietnam War American literature has...the work of African-American...
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Walker, Alice

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ALICE 1944 , African-American novelist and poet, b. Eatonon, Ga...and memories of the American civil-rights movement...of the experience of African Americans, mainly in the South, and of Africans. A self-described...issues within African-American culture. Walker won...
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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. Her first poetry...evocative. History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps her most...S. poet laureate, the first African American to hold the post. An English...
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Baraka, Amiri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...amere b ra k , 1934 , American poet, playwright, and political...racism of mainstream white American society. His volumes...Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women (1983...intensely involved with the African-American community...

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