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The poetry of the era was published in several different ways, notably in the form of anthologies. The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923), An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes (1924), and Caroling Dusk (1927) have been cited as four major poetry anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance. [2]
Ron Allen, poet, playwright [1]; Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist, playwright [2]; Maya Angelou, novelist, poet, and activist [3]; Amiri Baraka, poet, writer ...
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 ...
C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
The Poetry Foundation wrote that poets in the Harlem Renaissance "explored the beauty and pain of black life and sought to define themselves and their community outside of white stereotypes." [2] Poets such as Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Countee Cullen became well known for their poetry, which was often inspired by jazz. [3]
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 ...
The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-century African American Literature. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1077-2; Ogude, S. E. (1983). Genius in Bondage: A Study of the Origins of African Literature in English. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: University of Ife Press. ISBN 978-136-048-8; Reising, Russel J ...
He felt most of the poetry to not be great and unrepresentative of the quality of Black poetry. The poems, which were "almost all extreme in one way or another" did allow him to "sympathize" with the reasons they were written. [4] In 1989, the scholar Vilma R. Potter agreed, considering White's criticism characterized by ambiguity. [7