The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

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Wheatley’s poetry set the stage for generations of Black women authors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Her influence extended to movements like the Harlem Renaissance.

Angela Drew, Modesto’s first Black Poet Laureate, ... Oct. 8, where she presented her poem “Poetry Lives Here,” dedicated to Phillis Wheatley, the first Black female poet to be published.

She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, “Night Comes Softly,” and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker ...

“I think Black women being the peak, being the head, being what you see when you see poet laureate, whether that’s for the state of Alabama or the city of Birmingham, having Black women ...

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She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, "Night Comes Softly," and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker among ...