Tag: Black literature
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Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s first Black Poet Laureate, honors eight influential Black women poets in her new book What the Mirror Said while sharing her literary journey.
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Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black Pulitzer Prize winner in 1950, transformed American poetry and continues to inspire writers and communities today.
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