African american poets

10 poems by Lucille Clifton, chronicler of African-American experience, poet of the Chicago Black Renaissance. #BlackPoets #Lucille Clifton

Happy Birthday Margaret Walker. Born in 1915, Margaret Walker was a poet, writer and the first African American woman to receive the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. She was part of the African American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Walker was best known for her Civil War novel “Jubilee” (1963) and her powerful collection of poetry, “For My People” (1942). #MargaretWalker #poet #dreamer #reader #writer #Levenger

Happy Birthday Mari Evans. Born in Ohio in 1923, the poet and educator is closely aligned with the Black Arts Movement, exploring African American culture through literature. Evans remains one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets. #HappyBirthdayMariEvans #MariEvans #icon #poet #writer #poem #poetry #education #dreamer #reader #writer #Levenger

Wise words of advice from 12 inspiring women.

“I can remember when I was a little, young girl, how my old mammy would sit out of doors in the evenings and look up at the stars and groan, and I would say, ‘Mammy, what makes you groan so?’ And she would say, ‘I am groaning to think of my poor children; they do not know where I be and I don’t know where they be. I look up at the stars and they look up at the stars!’” —Sojourner Truth. I think I see her sitting bowed and black, Stricken and seared with slavery’s mortal scars, Reft of her…

When I was younger there were certain Americans authors that I just loved, while I had little patience for the others who were supposed to be so much better according to my English teachers. Here a…

Black women poets are much more than literary artists.

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