can someone provide me with a ist of african american poets?
2007-02-18 05:48:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Go to this site and you can find all of them.
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets.html
This is their list.
Ai (1)
(1947 - present)
Gwendolyn Brooks (13)
(1917 - 2000)
Imamu Amiri Baraka (1)
(1934 - present)
Arna Bontemps (7)
(1902 - 1973)
Lucille Clifton (2)
(1936 - present)
Countee Cullen (15)
(1903 - 1946)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (38)
(1872 - 1906)
Rita Dove (2)
(1952 - present)
Cornelius Eady (1)
(1954 - present)
James A. Emanuel (21)
(1921 - present)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1)
(1882 - 1961)
Nikki Giovanni (1)
(1943 - present)
Langston Hughes (29)
(1902 - 1967)
Robert Hayden (12)
(1913 - 1980)
Forrest Hamer (4)
(1956 - present)
Jupiter Hammon (1)
(1711 - 1806)
Yusef Komunyakaa (3)
(1947 - present)
Etheridge Knight (7)
(1931 - 1991)
Audre Lorde (8)
(1934 - 1992)
Claude McKay (76)
(1889 - 1948)
Maya Angelou (18)
(1928 - present)
Wanda Phipps (8)
(2006 - present)
Natasha Trethewey (3)
(1966 - present)
Quincy Troupe (3)
(1939 - present)
Alice Walker (1)
(1944 - present)
Phillis Wheatley (41)
(1753 - 1784)
James Weldon Johnson (4)
(1871 - 1938)
2007-02-18 05:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by unicornfarie1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Weldon Johnson
George Moses Horton
Sterling Brown
LUCILLE CLIFTON (MY FAVORITE POET - check out here Lorena Bobbit poem - seriously!)
Langston Hughes
Phillis Wheatley
Henry Dumas
Countee Cullen
Anita Scott Bryant
Haki R. Madhubuti
June Jordan
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Amiri Baraka
Michael Harper
Nikki Giovanni
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Now, GO READ THEM!
2007-02-25 01:37:06 · answer #2 · answered by jessleighj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maya Angelou
2007-02-18 13:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by BRAT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dunbar
2007-02-19 12:17:45 · answer #4 · answered by MalinaB 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋