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Carolyn Marie Rodgers (December 14, 1940 [1] – April 2, 2010) was a Chicago-based writer, particularly noted for her poetry. [2] The youngest of four, Rodgers had two sisters and a brother, born to Clarence and Bazella Rodgers.
Some women of color have been disappointed and upset by evangelical Christian churches — both predominantly white and multiracial — whose leaders failed to openly decry racism or homophobia.
The writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry nor are writings of secular poets dealing with Christian material. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have ...
As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned.
Slipping between poetry and prose, it’s broken into several poetic monologues by seven women of color, each named after a different color. Shange explicitly wrote the script as a commentary on ...
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
Gloria Hull in her book Color, Sex, and Poetry, argues that Johnson's work ought to be placed in an exceedingly distinguished place within the Harlem Renaissance, and that for African-American women writers "they desperately need and deserve long overdue scholarly attention". Hull, through a black feminist critical perspective, appointed ...
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" is a poem in Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.