She says, "The first moment that really stood out in terms of ...recognition was when I got the Pulitzer. ... She also championed children's poetry and jazz with poetry events."" ... So by helping introduce people to poetry and widening the audience for poetry, I do think my term has served a more serious purpose."" ... Dove only served two terms as poet laureate, but was brought back later as a special consultant for the bicentennial year of the Library of Congress. ... (Past poet laureate Consultant in poetry). ...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1967 he wrote a book of Black Nationalist poetry, titled "Black Magic." ... He also wrote a lot anti-semitic poetry at the same time. His poetry from that period contains such phrases as, "I got the extermination blues, jewboys."(Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black literature since the Harlem Renaissance. ...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in Montage of a Dream Deferred. ... He then once again tries to identify himself, this time in terms of his preferences and hobbies, beginning around line 21. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in Montage of a Dream Deferred. ... He then once again tries to identify himself, this time in terms of his preferences and hobbies, beginning around line 21. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Giovanni's Room told of a white American expatriate and his coming to terms with his homosexuality. ... Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life. ... Walter Meserve writes in The Black American Writer: Poetry and Drama, Vol. 2, Baldwin tries to use theatre as a pulpit for his ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. ... According to Brooke Horvath, Baldwin "desires to succeed on the basis of literary style and the humanity of his characters rather than in terms of successful polemic" (207). ... He explores Baldwin's call to the pulpit, his religious crisis, his coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his responses to the Civil Rights Movement, black nationalism, and the conflicts between Jews and blacks in Harlem (239). ... We ca...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The Octoroon, only considered second amongst antebellum melodramas, is a play written by Irish author Dion Boucicaut. The play focuses on the Plantation Terrebonne, the Peyton estate and its residents, namely it's slaves. During the time of its premiere, The Octoroon, inspired conversations about th...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Her dream of being beautiful, understood, and accepted-all of which she has imagined in terms of being white-is shattered, and her mind is occupied with thoughts of persecution, impending death, and imperative self-restraint. ... Family life in the store included disciplined study of arithmetic; leisurely reading of novels, poetry, and Shakespeare; and lessons on deportment and avoidance of trouble with whites. ...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Experiences of discrimination and hardship translated into rhythm and poetry became the widely renowned music genre that the world has come to know. ... With Hip-hop's increasing popularity, the reception of this culture has been widely interpreted by diverse audiences of different races and is highly relevant in terms of its cross-cultural appeal. ... In terms of white appropriation of Hip-hop, using the example of Eminem, it is another repetition of the racist past, where white appropriation eventually led to the domination of that cultural appeal. ... With all the rage about "blac...

• Word Count: 2033
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Due to Cane's eclectic mixing of poetry and prose it was considered a New Negro text and is still considered a 'masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance'.3 Toomer did not want to be associated with the Harlem Renaissance or to be solely identified as a Negro writer, as he believed that 'there [was] a new race in America. ...

• Word Count: 3347
• Approx Pages: 13

It was not something useless, it was at least an attempt to change something without violence, with the help of something everyone can understand - poetry. ... Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. ... Writers of the Renaissance were in the vanguard of the attempt to come to terms with black urbanization; they lived it, reflected on it, and through their art endeavored to resolve some of the problems arising from it. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The freedom and desire of sexuality is pertinent for humans. It is important that each person has a positive mindset about the subject, but due to racial oppression and slavery, many African American writers have opposing views on sexuality. While some like to flaunt their sexuality, others are more careful to the dangers that it may entail. One of the main highlights of the twentieth century is the Harlem Renaissance, which permitted blacks to flourish in the arts and literature. This led many black writers to freely express their thoughts and ideas on sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 2535
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography