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Ephriam David Tyler: Shreveport civil rights poet born in 1884
When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...
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Poet Aja Monet’s Cure for Loneliness
She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...
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The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience
Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...