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A literary critic noted that Evans used "black idioms to communicate the authentic voice of the black community is a unique characteristic of her poetry." [21] I Am a Black Woman (1970), her best-known poetry collection, won the Black Academy of Art and Letters First Poetry Award in 1975, and includes her best-known poem, "I Am a Black Woman". [18]
Crystal E. Wilkinson is an African-American feminist writer from Kentucky, and proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement. [1] She is winner of a 2022 NAACP Image Award and a 2021 O. Henry Prize winner; she is a 2020 USA Fellow of Creative Writing.
2022: Winner Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry for Call Us What We Carry [98] 2022: Winner Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program - We the People; 2023: Nominated for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards for Call Us What We Carry. [99] 2023: Elected to membership in the American ...
Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics; BCALA Literary Awards (Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards). Annual literary award from the American Library Association, Black Caucus, which honors "outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors"
[16] Her poetry covers various different subject matters. She has written both celebrations of love and family and deeper works exploring the atrocities that Black men and women face in America. She has written sonnets that are based in love, but explore darker realities such as lynchings and violent acts toward the Black population in America ...
Award winners and finalists, 2020–present Year Book Author Result Ref. 2020: Felon: Poems: Reginald Dwayne Betts: Winner [16] A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland: DaMaris B. Hill: Finalist [16] Honeyfish: Lauren K. Alleyne: Mistress: Chet'la Sebree: The Tradition ...
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 8, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
Johnston is the creator of a style of poetry known as Genesis. It is a style consisting of five poems written in columns, and read from top to bottom, plus an additional sixth poem that is created by reading all five columns together, left to right, and a seventh poem that is created from italicized words and phrases in the five columns, which are also read left to right.