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  2. George Moses Horton - Wikipedia

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    The first African American to publish a book in the South; the only slave to earn a significant income by selling his poems; the only poet of any race to produce a book of poems before he could write; and the only slave to publish two volumes of poetry while in bondage and another shortly after emancipation." [2]

  3. June Jordan - Wikipedia

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    June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.

  4. Kevin Young (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Young's poetry has also appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. In 2007, he served as guest editor for an issue of Ploughshares. [9] He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis. His 2003 book of poems Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National ...

  5. Wanda Coleman - Wikipedia

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    In a 2020 New Yorker article, author Ben Chiasson refers to an interview Coleman did with the Poetry Society of America where she describes herself as a “Usually Het Interracially Married Los Angeles-based African American Womonist Matrilinear Working Class Poor Pink/White Collar College Drop-out Baby Boomer Earth Mother and Closet Smoker ...

  6. Jean Toomer - Wikipedia

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    Toomer's father soon abandoned his wife and his young son, returning to Georgia seeking to obtain a portion of his late second wife's estate. Nina divorced him and took back her maiden name of Pinchback; she and her son returned to live with her parents in Washington D.C. Angered by her husband's abandonment, Nina's father insisted that they use another name for her son and started calling him ...

  7. Four Hundred Souls - Wikipedia

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    Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.

  8. Pearl Cleage - Wikipedia

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    Pearl Cleage (/ k l ɛ ɡ / KLEG; born December 7, 1948) is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist. [1] [2] She is currently the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre and at the Just Us Theater Company.

  9. Rachel Eliza Griffiths - Wikipedia

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    Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Lady Rushdie (born December 6, 1978) [1] [2] is an American poet, novelist, photographer and visual artist, who is the author of five published collections of poems. In Seeing the Body (2020), she "pairs poetry with photography, exploring memory, Black womanhood, the American landscape, and rebirth."

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