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Topic: African American poet

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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Gives more attention to women poets and to artists from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American cultures than in any previous anthology.
She is the co-founder of Cave Canem, the historic first workshop/retreat for African American poets.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Precursors of rap who drew upon the same wordplay traditions include the Jamaican toasters of 1970s, African American radio DJs from the 1940s through the 1970s, and black American poets of the 1960s including the Last Poets and the Watts Prophets.
Like Bond, these other young female artists are part of a new breed of African-American musical poets, in the tradition of Joan Armatrading,Tracy Chapman.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Bright Moments: One Poet's Search for the Africa Hidden Deep Inside African-American poet's pilgrimage to ancestral lands.
This CD-ROM provides full-text access to the works of fifty-four African American poets who wrote during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

African-American Poetry (1750-1900) --Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Nubian Poets , profiles on poets of African descent, useful poetry links, free poetry contest, poetry trivia, African American history.
Three reigning poets influenced Johnson's development as the second outstanding African-American poet: Rudyard Kipling, English; Walt Whitman , American; Paul Laurence Dunbar , African-American.
The Underground Poets Society - African American Poetry at its finest and a Tri-annual Poetry Contest.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Mellon Foundation to fund her research on prominent African- American poets such as Bob Kaufman.
 
 
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2005-02-24 15:08:51
who was the first female poet to read a poem at a U.S Presidential Inauguration? what was the poem
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