This poem captures the depth of the African American experience ... Inspiration and Themes: “I, Too” was written during the ...

Written in 1904 by German Japanese American poet Carl Sadakichi ... was a pioneering African writer who wrote sensual lesbian love poems. Her 1927 poem “Rainy Season Love Song” tells a story ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is best known as a poet, author, essayist and editor. He has written 11 ...