Dorchester County Public Library issued the following announcement on October 17.
It's Black Poetry Day! Today we celebrate past and present black poets. The first published black poet in the United States, Jupiter Hammon, was also born on this day in 1711!*
Check out these titles by black poets we have here at the library:
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
Spirit Boxing by Afaa Michael Weaver
Voyage of the Sable Venus and other poems by Robin Coste Lewis
The Black Poets edited by Dudley Randall
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry edited by Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton
The 100* Best African American Poems (*but I cheated) edited by Nikki Giovanni
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song edited by Kevin Young
Info from nationaldaycalendar.com
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