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Stephen E. Henderson (October 13, 1925 – January 7, 1997) was an American professor of African-American literature and culture, [1] whose 1973 book Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference is regarded as a seminal work.
It was dedicated to "Black and Unknown Bards" and in compiling it Kerlin sought high quality poetry but also "at least one fundamental quality of poetry, namely, passion." Negro Poets and Their Poems also includes biographical information about and some photographs of the poets whose work is included. In 1986, the scholar Vilma R. Potter noted ...
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C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
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 ...
Pinkie Gordon Lane (born January 13, 1923 – December 3, 2008) was an African-American poet, editor, and teacher. She authored five books of poetry and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.
Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1934 [1] – December 28, 2012) was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist. [2] Her writing is part of the canon of the Black Arts Movement.
Randall in 1972. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. [1] He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, [2] Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, [2] Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and ...