The Top 10 Poets – The African-Americans - Five poems each from some of the best African American poets

Langston Hughes, Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Frances E W Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adah Isaacs Menken

Narrateur Darrell Joe, Warren Keyes, Laurel Lefkow

Synopsis

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
In this volume we collect together poets who, by the mere colour of their skin, were treated with such disdain and racism that it is difficult to believe that poetry of such tenderness, beauty and authority could exist.

Date de publication: 06/06/2025; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2025. Copyright Statment: —

Poésie et Théâtre