Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community,...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own volume of poetry, she was one of the most revered poets of her...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs...
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African-American female poet. She was born in West Africa around 1753, before she was kidnapped and sold into the Maafa (slavery) at the tender age...
Gil Scott-Heron was the African American poet, novelist, musician, and songwriter known primarily for his work as a...
Poet João da Cruz e Sousa, (November 24, 1861-March 19, 1898) was the leading figure of the Symbolist...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Harper had a long and prolific career, publishing...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and...
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first official poet laureate. In 2010 Troupe...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
