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Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance.
Gwendolyn Bennett: Rho: Artist, poet, prose writer, teacher; played an active role in the AA arts community in Harlem; former director of the Harlem Community Art Center of the N.Y.C. WPA Art Project; one of the most revered poets of the New Negro Era (Harlem Renaissance); poetry reflected themes of the New Negro Era – racial pride ...
"If We Must Die" is one of McKay's most famous poems, and the poet Gwendolyn Brooks cited it as "one of the most famous poems ever written". [7] According to Jordanian scholar Shadi Neimneh, the poem "arguably marks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance because it gives expression to a new racial spirit and self-awareness". [10]
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet; Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981), African-US writer and poet; Jim Bennett (born 1951), English poet in Liverpool punk era; Richard Berengarten (born 1943), English poet, writer and translator; Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish writer and critic; İlhan Berk (1918 ...
The acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services gave his own version of the famous poem written on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
Lewis Alexander was born on July 4, 1898, in Washington, D.C. As a child, he was educated in the Washington public school system. Little biographical information is available on Alexander until, at the age of 17, he began writing poetry; he took special interest in Japanese forms including haiku, hokku, and tanka.
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), poet and literary critic; Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) Claude Brown (1937–2002) Hallie Quinn Brown (1849–1949) Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction; Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the ...