Brownstoner

Poets Honor the African-American Literary Tradition as Part of Black Artstory Month

All month long, you can celebrate the rich tradition of African-American art in Brooklyn. As part of the sixth annual Black Artstory Month — a series of exhibitions and walks that introduce visitors ...
KETV Omaha

Jewel Rodgers appointed as first African American Nebraska poet laureate

BEAUTIFUL IN THE DISTANCE. WELL, IN LINCOLN TODAY, GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN APPOINTS OMAHA AUTHOR AND PERFORMER JEWELL ROGERS AS NEBRASKA’S NEW STATE POET. AT 27, ROGERS IS THE YOUNGEST TO HOLD THE ...
Houston Chronicle

Two African-American poets to appear in reading at Alley

Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa and Kevin Young, two of the country's leading African-American poets, will present an evening of jazz- and blues-inflected poetry Monday as part of the 23rd ...
insider.si.edu

National Museum of African American History and Culture Acquires Major Collection of Work Attributed to Poet Phillis Wheatley Peters

Ocean Manuscript poem by Phillis Wheatley, 1773. Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American ...
WATE 6 On Your Side

Knoxville’s first African American Poet Laureate says Black history inspires her poems

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — As she stands before crowds to perform her poems, Rhea Carmon uses her voice to create spaces for conversations on current issues of social change and justice. It’s through ...

African poetry is celebrated in a groundbreaking publishing project

The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
St. Louis American

African-American poet and Brown U. professor Michael S. Harper passed May 7 at age 78

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The Westside Gazette

Brevo Theatre Presents: Black Nativity Dec 18 – 20

CLICK HERE for More Information Black Nativity is an African-American telling of the Nativity story, based on the Song Play ...
Newsday

Jupiter Hammon, early African American poet, to be celebrated at Joseph Lloyd Manor

Almost 10 years ago, the poem “An Essay on Slavery,” by the first published African American poet ,Jupiter Hammon, was discovered at an archive at Yale University. Written in 1786, the poem had spent ...
Yahoo

Nebraska’s next state poet is a Jewel, first African American to fill role

New Nebraska State Poet Jewel Rodgers, left, poses with Gov. Jim Pillen, First Lady Suzanne Pillen, and her father, Johnny Rodgers. (Screenshot of Nebraska Public Media) LINCOLN — Nebraska’s next ...
Washington Examiner

An American Poet - Washington Examiner

The business of reviving writers from the past reflects the fashions of the present — which means that a neglected author who doesn’t fit our current fashions is probably going to stay neglected, no ...
Yahoo

African American poet Nikki Giovanni comes to Mary Baldwin for Renaissance Rent Party

STAUNTON – When students, faculty, staff and community members enter Mary Baldwin University's Student Activities Center at 6 p.m. Friday, March 17, they’ll find themselves transported to a 1920s New ...