Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

African-American poets have left an indelible mark on American poetry, and their words resonate with readers across ...

His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is best known as a poet, author, essayist and editor. He has written 11 ...

She is the youngest at 27 years old and the first African American chosen for the position ... and a 2024 finalist in the Blackberry Peach Poetry Slam. She is also a Teaching Artist with the ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman ... Although Lucy Terry was a poet, only one of her poems, a ballad called "Bars Fight," has survived.

Angelou, a poet ... a poem at a presidential inauguration. Coins are planned for other pioneering women, including an astronaut, a tribal chief and an actress - as part of the American Women ...