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This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright [1]
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 ...
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia; William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853) Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) Ashley Bryan (1923–2022) Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author of romance and mainstream fiction novels
Listing the most famous African-American female authors and excluding Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is impossible. ... was a Black American author, poet and civil rights activist best known for “I ...
George Moses Horton (c. 1798–after 1867), was an African-American poet from North Carolina who was enslaved until Union troops, carrying the Emancipation Proclamation, reached North Carolina (1865). Horton is the first African-American author to be published in the United States.
African-American male songwriters (1 C, 157 P) Pages in category "African-American male writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 393 total.
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – c. 1806) [1] was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American man in North America. He subsequently published both poetry and prose.