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

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

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

A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...