BLACK
POETRY
With the blacks regaining their freedom new kinds of music were born like spiritual, gospel, blues, ragtime, jazz and reggae. But still the origin of these arts lies in the renaissance of African American poetry. This new found way of expressing your sad life´s feelings through a single text makes us unworthy to give the allowance to let us document about it. But as it is fate has chosen us from the beginning to create this homepage with all of our power were being able to collect. And for this we will create a homepage demonstrating till the end of the time what the meaning of real humanity is.
Langston
Hughes
We will
begin our report with James Langston Hughes, who is known as one of the most
important poets of the 19th century. He was born February 1, 1902,
in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his
father moved then to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was
thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her
husband, eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in Lincoln, Illinois,
that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in
Mexico and a year at Columbia University. During these years, he held odd jobs
as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and travelled to Africa and
Europe working as a seaman.Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal
experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the
stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including
both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. Langston
Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York.
If you
klick here, you will see the work of a man. But it is not just some piece of creation. It is rather the
embodiment of L. Hughes life itself.
Ai
Ai, who
has described herself as "1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw, 1/4 Black, and 1/16
Irish," was born Florence Anthony in Albany, Texas, in 1947; she grew up
in Tucson, Arizona. She legally changed her name to "Ai," which means
"love" in Japanese. Ai holds a B.A. in Japanese from the University
of Arizona and an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine. She has
received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe College. She teaches at
Oklahoma State University and lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Just
click here to see ai´s poems of love.
If you
want to see a special poet just come over here and have a click
This site may be over, but the chapter of poetry isn´t finished yet. The Blacks made one beginning with their poetry, and from this point on, in cooperation with black tradition, something was born, which still represents the souls of the black people. We speak of nothing different than blues, rap, reggae, and many more.
And,
finally, if you are fed up with words, words, words, let your eyes indulge in
beautiful African American Visual Art.
For
more information look at http://www.poets.org/
