Written by:Amanda Ball ReadPoems by Amanda Ball ABC|+ Follow Poet|+ Fav Poem|Comment|Email|Print| Missing Piece I swear I healed myself, but a piece of me is always going g to be missing. So I searched the earth and Under my bed. I looked in my diaries and all the words I have...
One of my favorite poets is Langston Hughes, who wrote about the experiences of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. His poem "Harlem" is a powerful commentary on the frustrations and hopes of a generation of black Americans: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up。
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Next on our list of the most beautiful poems about love is ‘To Be in Love’ by Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks was a poet, author, and teacher — and perhaps most notably, in 1950, was also the first African-American writer to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In this powerful poem, Brooks conveys...
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Learn about Phillis Wheatley, the first African American author to publish a book of poems, and her writing. Discover Wheatley's subjects and...
Here’s a 1972 poem from the contemporary African-American poet Nikki Giovanni (born 1943). Although the poem begins with a mother-daughter relationship, as Giovanni recalls her own mother’s habit of sitting in the dark, the plural in the title, ‘Mothers’,...
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