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Her poetry expressed Christian themes, and many poems were dedicated to famous figures. Over one-third consist of elegies, the remainder being on religious, classical and abstract themes. [28] She seldom referred to her own life in her poems. One example of a poem on slavery is "On being brought from Africa to America": [29]
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.
[23] Observer.com reported in 2019: "It was in high school that she eventually read the poetry of other black women such as Audre Lorde and Phillis Wheatley, and started writing poems that commented on social justice issues such as intersectional feminism and race."
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]
Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage; Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist; Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet; Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer; Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the ...
In 1980, Clifton published "homage to my hips" in her book of poems, Two-Headed Woman. Two-Headed Woman won the 1980 Juniper Prize and was characterized by its "dramatic tautness, simple language … tributes to blackness, [and] celebrations of women", which are all traits reflected in the poem "homage to my hips". [15]
"Carolyn M. Rodgers: 'Great poet' born of '60s" (Chicago Sun-Times, April 13, 2010) has the subheading: "Her work 'affirmed the voice of black women – of everyday black women'." Little Known Black History Fact: Carolyn Rodgers; Poems and other writings "Some Me of Beauty", Rodgers' poem from her 1975 collection How I Got Ovah
Weeden also wrote poetry, and she combined both poetry and art in her four books published between 1898 and 1904. [5] Some of her poems were written in the black dialect, now known as African-American English, as she was inspired by stories and folktales told to her by her subjects when they were sitting for portraits. [3]