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The Dark Room Collective hosted a writing workshop and gatherings of black artists and writers at the house. [2] They were visited by African-American writers including Alice Walker , bell hooks , Toni Cade Bambara , Derek Walcott , Samuel R. Delany , poet Essex Hemphill , Randall Kenan , Terry McMillan , Ntozake Shange , John Edgar Wideman ...
C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
Eloise Greenfield (May 17, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American children's book and biography author and poet famous for her descriptive, rhythmic style and positive portrayal of the African-American experience. After college, Greenfield began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working in a civil service job.
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
Alfred Bennett Spellman (born August 1935) is a poet, music critic, and arts administrator.Considered a part of the Black Arts Movement, he first received attention for his book of poems entitled The Beautiful Days (1965).
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
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]
Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic.He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career.