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April 3 Poet of the Day: Countee Cullen

April 3 Poet of the Day is Countee Cullen.  Read about this poet here:

Poets.org: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/55

New Deal Resources: http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/docs/3801p42.htm

http://newdeal.feri.org/magpie/docs/42winp19.htm

Shmoop (need to have an account to fully access all the resources): http://www.shmoop.com/incident-poem/

http://www.shmoop.com/yet-do-i-marvel-cullen/calling-card.html

 

KRLemmons African American Biography, African American Poetry, Resources

April 2 Poet of the Day: Phillis Wheatley

April is Poetry Month.  I will regularly post information and resources on African, African American, and Caribbean poets.  April 2 Poet of the Day is Phillis Wheatley.

Biography: http://www.biography.com/people/phillis-wheatley-9528784

Poets.Org: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/431

PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html

Memoir and Poems: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/wheatley/wheatley.html

Annenberg, includes teacher resources: http://www.learner.org/amerpass/unit04/authors-10.html

 

KRLemmons African American Biography, African American Poetry, Resources

April 1 is Poetry Month: Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Poets.Org features a poem a day.  April 1 poem is by Yusef Komunyakaa.  Information about him can be found here: His poem is titled Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova.  The poem can be found here: About this poem:

“‘Daytime Begins with a Line By Anna Akhmatova’ addresses a number of polarities as we think about class and its relationship to the creation of art, especially when considering Akhmatova’s apt critique of old world postures through an astute modernist lens. When she lived at the Marble Palace with her second husband, Vladimir Shileiko, one cannot overlook the fact she produced few poems in those years, perhaps because of their dire situation or her husband’s reductive attitude toward her poetry. Shileiko translated Babylonian text, and Akhmatova stood in line through hours of cold at the House of Scholars on Millionnoya Street for food. The poem appears in my forthcoming collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks.” —Yusef Komunyakaa – See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23932#sthash.bxUjBo9q.dpuf
Information retrieved from poets.org