Follow her on Twitter.In 1996 the Academy of American Poets Black News and Black Views with a Whole ... Angelou’s work popularized African-American poetry like none before it.

Black Poetry Day is a chance to celebrate the works of African-American writers throughout history up to today. This includes one of the first black poets in the United States, Lucy Terry Prince ...

Young, a poet himself and the poetry editor of The New Yorker, had particular insight on Wheatley's influence on American literature. "I think she's a very important foremother," said Young. "I think ...

Focusing only on poems published in that era's Black newspapers — the main literary outlet for Black authors and poets of the time — Voices covers the gamut of African-American poetry from ...

A New Literary Timeline of African-American History By JESMYN WARD , BARRY JENKINS and RITA DOVE AUG. 14, 2019 The 1619 Project examines the legacy of slavery in America.

The 19th century was a vibrant period for poetry in the United States. But few know that African-Americans were an essential part of that. Slaves, former slaves and free African-Americans wrote ...

Langston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper are prominent African-American poets who wrote about civil rights and whose work still resonates today. Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E ...

Robert Frost needed only minutes to write "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," one of his two most famous poems, but it took him years to write the other, "The Road Not Taken." ...

As the first published African American poet, Phillis Wheatley-Peters paved the way for future Black writers to express ...