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Also Known As Michael Steven Harper
Born March 18, 1938 • New York City • New York
Died May 7, 2016 (aged 78)
Title / Office poet laureate (1988-1993)
Awards And Honors Frost Medal (2008)
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American poet
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Kevin Young
Kevin Young
American poet, essayist, and editor
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
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
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
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa
American writer
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander
American poet and children’s author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American abolitionist and educator
Sapphire
Sapphire
American author
Frances E.W. Harper
Frances E.W. Harper
American author and social reformer
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes
American author and poet
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith
American poet and author
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
American poet
Adah Menken.
Adah Isaacs Menken
American actress and poet

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