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Clifton's work features in anthologies such as My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (ed. Arnold Adoff), A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today (ed. Catherine Clinton), Black Stars: African American Women Writers (ed. Brenda Scott Wilkinson), Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby), and Bedrock: Writers on the ...
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
Esther Saunders (1793–1862), African American poet who escaped from slavery; Anna Seward (1747–1809), English poet; Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), American poet and author of conduct literature; Hedvig Sirenia (1734–1795), Swedish poet; Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), English Romantic poet and novelist; Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854 ...
Chandra Russell wants to help show "that Black women have 1,000,023 ways to be silly." “I Run This” is a weekly interview series that highlights Black women and femmes who do dope shit in ...
This is a list of African poets. Contemporary Africa has a range of important poets across many different genres and cultures. Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent.
On Maroon 5's "Sugar," the lyric "Yeah, you show me good loving" becomes "Yeah, you show me good dancing." The kidz love their "good" dance moves, and they are rightly exalted here. 3.
Jeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction; Rosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry; Diane Di Prima (1934–2020 ...