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Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American life centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. A major aspect of this revival was poetry. [2] Hundreds of poems were written and published by African Americans during the era, which covered a wide variety of themes. [3]
Anne Spencer was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry.She was also a committed activist for equal rights, and her house also served as a political center of the community.
Anne Spencer (1882–1975), American poet; Elkanah East Taylor (1888–1945), American poet; poetry magazine founder; Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), American lyrical poet; Regina Ullmann (1884–1961), Swiss poet writing in German; Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889–1956), English poet
Here’s one of the sillier (and yes, most stupid) poems from the newest anthology created by my colleague Sylvia Vardell and me, "Clara’s Kooky Compendium of Thimblethoughts and Wonderfuzz."
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American writer and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. Raised in Englewood, New Jersey, and later New York City, Anne Morrow graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in
Carrie Allen was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 4, 1913, and raised in that city, where she came to know poet Anne Spencer, a friend of her mother.Initially educated at the Virginia Seminary Primary School, she was the ninth of ten children. [1]
Anne Spencer was pronounced dead at 9.55pm. Ms Clarke confirmed Mrs Spencer’s medical cause of death as aspiration pneumonia, hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and near drowning.