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Born July 16, 1923 • Toledo • Ohio
Died March 10, 2017 (aged 93) • Indianapolis • Indiana
Notable Works “Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective” • “Eyes” • “I’m Late: The Story of LaNeese and Moonlight and Alisha Who Didn’t Have Anyone of Her Own” • “River of My Song”
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
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Eunice Tietjens
poet, novelist, and editor
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
American author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Arna Bontemps
American writer
Portrait of Shel Silverstein with a bald head and beard, leaning forward with hands clasped and a thoughtful expression.
Shel Silverstein
American illustrator and author
Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
American writer and illustrator
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
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Wendy Wasserstein
American playwright
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Angelina Weld GrimkĂŠ
American dramatist
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
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Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, writer, and translator
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander
American poet and children’s author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist

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