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Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970) [1] [2] is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, [ 3 ] Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public ...
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.
Poems, Editions Poetry London (1947) Moral Stories (1954) Monologue of a Deaf Man (1958) Adam at Evening, Hodder & Stoughton (1965) Nerve Ends, Hodder & Stoughton (1969) To the Gods the Shades: New and Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press (1976) A view of the north, Carcanet Press (1976) A South African album, Cape Town: David Philip (1976)
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.
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.
Chris van Wyk (1957 – 2014) was a South African children's book author, novelist and poet. Van Wyk is famous for his poem "In Detention" on the suspicious deaths that befell South African political prisoners during Apartheid. In 1976 he published a volume of poetry, It Is Time to Go Home (1979), that won the 1980 Olive Schreiner Prize.
The following is a partial list of performance poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American poets. ... Pages in category "African-American poets" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...