The 100 Best African American Poems (*but I cheated) offers 116 poems — 16 more than the title promises. "You have to cheat," says Giovanni, unapologetically.

Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about ...

For two years, Antwon Rose’s poem lived in his 10th grade English teacher’s electronic grade book, largely forgotten. After he was shot dead by police, she found it again.

Langston Hughes poems are about the ordinary Black man—his struggle, his mundane life, his beauty and his dreams. There’s no better way to describe Hughes’s poetry than with his own words ...

His poem imagines what it would be like to be the first Black kid in space. Eva Anthony, 10 Eva Anthony’s poem, Advice, includes suggestions for adults on how to live their lives.

30 Poems About Life That Will Change How You See the World. ... He was the first African American person to make a living by writing poetry, turning his dreams into a reality.

Prairie View A&M University’s Toni Morrison Writing Program hosted a public lecture for Nikki Giovanni. The lecture took place at The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, at 7 p.m. Giovanni read and ...

Gwendolyn Brooks, a 32-year-old housewife and part-time secretary, has won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Annie Allen,” a ballad of Black Chicago life on May 1, 1950. Brooks is the first ...

Vasser-Elong says much, however, in the short “Pocket poem #1”: I’m sure the world is tired. of angry Black man poems. about the struggle as much as those angry Black men are tired of struggling ...