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 ...

A Father’s Day poem is an easy but impactful way to let ... notably used his poetry to call attention to the mistreatment of Black soldiers who’d returned home from the Spanish-American ...

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 ...

In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting ... We sit on opposite sides of a picnic bench, behind him, the black walnut tree, its fruit rich with maggots.

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.

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 ...