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Critics consider her work fundamental to the genre of African-American literature, [2] and she is honored as the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry and the first to make a living from her writing. [56] In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Phillis Wheatley as one of his 100 Greatest African Americans. [57]
Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University Robert Earl Price (born 1942), playwright and poet
It includes African-American poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American women poets" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Johnson's early poetry was part of a larger movement by Black women poets to create a model of womanhood that was an alternative to the dominant model of "True Womanhood" as a white, middle-class experience. [7] Examples of her alternative model of womanhood can be seen in Old Maid's Soliloquy [6] and Meal Time [6] from Virginia Dreams.
She wrote a tribute for black athletes for Nike [33] and has a book deal with Viking Children's Books to write two children's picture books. [34] [35] Gorman reading her poem "An American Lyric" in 2017. In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.