So Black History Month is almost at an end; have 50 African-American poet as presented by The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton.

In alphabetical order:

1. Elizabeth Alexander
   
2. Benjamin Banneker
   
3. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
   
4. Gwendolyn Bennett
   
5. William Stanley Braithwaite
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in short: Rotten English: A Literary Anthology edited by Dohra Ahmad (white? editor) is an anthology of poetry, short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that use, discuss or otherwise engage with vernacular/non-standard/dialectical/world English(es), has a 5:2 ratio of PoC writers to white writers, and has writers from and stories set on every ( Read more... )