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Books on: african american poets

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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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...before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets . New York: Galiens...to Dare: 10 Gay Black Poets . New York: Galiens...The Calamus Root: American Gay Poetry since World...the Queer Symbolic. African American Review 33.3 1999...
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Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2002

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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

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...Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry 1995 and Oxfords Modern American Poets 2000 should stimulate...respects differences between African American and Japanese...signature style of various African American musicians into...Chao an ancient Chinese poet foregrounds the specific...David Mura as sansei poets who interrogate nisei...
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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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dusk 1927 , said of the African-American poets of the Twenties...did not typify his poets, who went back to Paul...Toomer, the principal poets now generally assigned...Except for Toomer, these poets had more in common with...now forgotten as a poet but useful in helping...
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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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...to the nature of the whole of American poetry is now patently obvious...and the poetry of many other African-American poets, that "there are / too many...the many tribes constituting American expression. Hank Lazer, "Blackness...
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists

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

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...in spite of Madhubutis decline as one of the leading African American poets of contemporary times, he remains a major voice and...Selected and New Poems . 1971. Dynamite Voices I: Black Poets of the 1960s . 1971. To Gwen with Love: An Anthology...

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Journal Articles on: african american poets

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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 poets

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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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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

Magazine article by Wanda Coleman; The Nation, Vol. 275, September 16, 2002

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Criticism--Analysis, Race relations--History, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...which reintroduced poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert...cultural constraints, African-American reviewer...Afro-American, African-American, now Africana...history, racism aside, Americans of color benefiting...cultural redress, as African-American readers demanded literature...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american poets

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Author, Poet to Appear:

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

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Poets

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

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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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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Inaugural Poet Fits Right in with Obama Choices

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 20, 2009

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Alexander, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation

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

...selection as inaugural poet and that of the president...choice. Shes a wonderful poet who has a deep understanding...There are a lot of African-American poets writing out of victimhood...following the example of poet Maya Angelou, who took...
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Live Poets' Society

Newspaper article by Jonetta Rose Barras; The Washington Times, August 6, 1999

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

Live poets society by Jonetta Rose...resurrected. The citys African-American literary community has...group known as the Howard Poets. Led by Percy Johnston...appointed earlier this year Poet Laureate of the District...She has been inspiring poets long before this latest...
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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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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american poets

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Poet Laureate

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...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

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

...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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Lincoln University

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...having as its original purpose the higher education of African-American students, but since 1866 it has been open to all qualified...Its Langston Hughes Memorial Library contains the poets personal collection...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...England the great Romantic poets did not produce important...plays of Edward Albee (American). The pessimism and...trilogy; and in such American plays as Jason Millers...imitators), explored American culture with a kind...drama by and about African Americans emerged as a significant...
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Massachusetts

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...sites Adams, Boston African American, Frederick...voluntary union of American colonies. In 1675...power of the Native Americans of southern New...interference with American shipping. To avoid...early center of the American textile industry...such writers and poets as Richard Henry...

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