Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Parker gave her first public poetry reading in 1963 in Oakland. In 1968, she began to read her poetry to women's groups at women's bookstores, coffeehouses and feminist events. [18] Judy Grahn, a fellow poet and a personal friend, identifies Pat Parker's poetry as a part of the "continuing Black tradition of radical poetry". [19]
Helen Steiner was born in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time.
While looking for media about women of color’s experiences in the US, they received a large amount of scholarly articles by women of color who were looking to get published. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Ultimately, the co-editors turned down these works because they hoped to create a non-academic anthology that encapsulated Third World feminism in the US ...
YA titles and adult classics featuring young women of color and selected by Rae Wynn-Grant, PhD, ecologist and author of 'Wild Life.'
Claire Harris (13 June 1937 – 5 February 2018 [1]) was a Canadian poet. [2] Harris was born Port of Spain, Trinidad and lived in Calgary, Alberta.Harris' numerous works explore themes such as mortality, the role and treatment of women of color in society, and the search for identity. [3]
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 ...
In 1833, her father died. She undertook in 1834 the editorial supervision of The Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book, an Annual, and in 1836 of the Invalid's Hymn Book – works previously conducted by a friend, Harriet Kiernan, who was then in the last stages of consumption. The annual she edited for 25 years and many of her poems appeared in it.
She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. She rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem " The Hill We Climb " at the inauguration of Joe Biden . Gorman's inauguration poem generated international acclaim and shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status, and she obtained a ...