These poems explore with tenderness and anxiety the joys and perils of being a father — especially a black father — and how to escape the mistakes of past generations. “We like to say that ...

Her latest work, How I Discovered Poetry, is a memoir about her own ... "The story I tell, the family story, is of the family of an African-American flying officer." Sponsor Message Moving around ...

"I first started to write poetry, I think, as a way of dealing with the meta-space between racial identity: having an African-American father and a white mother and trying to negotiate the language.

Himes takes readers into Lee’s mind as he ponders how his father intended those ... and too science fiction for the Black drama community.” Esther Popel’s poem “Flag Salute” on the ...

Native Guard (2006), which won the the Pulitzer Prize, centers on a black regiment of ... drafts of “Elegy,” a poem from that collection. Dedicated to her father, a fellow poet, it recounts ...

Maxine L. Bryant: Langston Hughes, Savannah’s Clinton Powell penned poetry on the Black experience He became a father at the age of 17 and was sentenced to prison shortly thereafter.

These poems — with titles like “Final First Poem,” “Final Poem for the Crow” and “Final Poem for the ‘Black Body ... the grief of losing a father who was missing while ...

“My message in all of my poems is humanity ... Black history a priority in their household. “My father made us read from the African American encyclopedias growing up. We had to do Saturday ...

Lillios said Hurston’s mentor — “father of anthropology” Franz Boaz — urged her “to collect the folklore [and] remnants” of an African-American ... any of the poetry she recorded ...