BLACK POETRY DAY

For more information on black poets, and to read some incredible poetry, go to Africanamericanpoetry.org, or theroot.com, or poets.org, or curiosityshots.com – or search for the many other sites available.

HERE IS A SHORT LIST OF SOME POETS I ENJOY TO GET YOU STARTED:

  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Rita Dove
  • Langston Hughes
  • Lucille Clifton
  • June Jordan
  • Claudia Rankine
  • Derek Walcott
  • Kate Rushin
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Sterling A Brown
  • Maya Angelou
  • Paul Lawrence Dunbar
  • Tracy K Smith
  • Claude McKay
  • Robert Hayden
  • Ntozake Shange
  • Sonia Sanchez
  • Jerico Brown
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