Title: African American Poetry

URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/africam1.htm

Collection: University of Delaware Special Collections Online Exhibitions and Finding Aids

Description: This exhibit consisted of two separate installments. The first exhibit featured African American poetry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Well-known authors such as Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar will be included, but the work of lesser-known figures, such as Jupiter Hammon, George Moses Horton, and Frances E.W. Harper will also be presented. The second display focused on African American poetry during the twentieth century and will include work by Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Audrey Lorde, Maya Angelou, Wanda Coleman, Rita Dove, and a host of other African American poets. This exhibition was on display in the Information Room on the first floor of Morris Library from February 6-May 5, 1998.

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Subject:   African American poets,  American poetry--African American authors