• New African Poets (NAP) are a French hip hop group from Strasbourg. The members of the group are Mustapha, Bilal, Malik, Aïssa, Mohammed and Karim. Most...
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  • The Last Poets is a poetry collective and musical group that arose in the late 1960s as part of the African-American civil rights movement and black nationalism...
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  • notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright Elizabeth Alexander, poet, essayist...
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  • one of the most linguistically radical new poets in Afrikaans. A new generation of white South African poets writing in English in the 1960s include...
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  • Pan African Pocket Poets (PPP) was a series of 5 chapbooks published by Ulli Beier in Ife, Nigeria between 1971 and 1972. They feature works by 4 Nigerian...
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    Abd al Malik (rapper) (category 21st-century French poets)
    with his brother Bilal and his cousin Aissa, a rap group they called New African Poets also known by the abbreviation N.A.P. Other members included Mustapha...
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    Abiodun Oyewole (category African-American poets)
    Davis, February 1948), is a poet, teacher and member of the African-American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, which developed into what is...
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    Rachel Eliza Griffiths (category African-American poets)
    was the creator of the series of video interview Poets on Poetry (P.O.P), in which contemporary poets discuss poetry "in relation to individual human experience...
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  • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often...
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  • Keorapetse Kgositsile (category 20th-century South African poets)
    established Kgositsile as a leading African-American poet. The Last Poets, a group of revolutionary African-American poets, took their name from one of his...
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  • literature List of African poets List of Tanzanian poets List of Ghanaian poets List of Nigerian poets List of South African poets South African poetry Ebyevugo...
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    Countee Cullen (category African-American poets)
    the nebulous atavistic yearnings towards an African inheritance." Cullen believed that African-American poets should work within the English conventions...
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    by Poets & Writers that "honors an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition." Since 2008, Alexander has chaired the African American...
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  • This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars, listed by country...
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    the post of poet laureate to which a prominent poet residing in the respective state is appointed. The responsibilities of the state poets laureate are...
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    The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised...
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    Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group the Dark Room Collective. He is heavily influenced by the poets Langston Hughes, John Berryman...
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  • Navy and U.S. Marine Corps pilot (until 1981) Nebraska AIDS Project New African Poets, a French hip hop group Non-aggression Pact (band), an American...
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  • publisher of poetry books by black poets. Known as "the godmother of African-American poetry", she was the Detroit poet laureate since 2001. Madgett was...
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    Ishmael Reed (category African-American poets)
    more influenced by poets than by novelists—the Harlem Renaissance poets, the Beat poets, the American surrealist Ted Joans. Poets have to be more attuned...
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  • The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine of that name) are an avant-garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged...
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    A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...
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  • mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African Americans, maintained in the 1950s by counterculture poets like those of the Beat generation, and adapted...
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  • Saddiq Dzukogi (category Nigerian poets)
    which was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series (2018). His poems have appeared in Oxford Review...
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    national literatures are also considered "national poets". Though not formally elected, national poets play a role in shaping a country's understanding...
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  • The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated...
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    23 November 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2023. Poets, Academy of American Poets. "About Fenton Johnson". Poets. Retrieved 14 August 2021. Foundation, Poetry...
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    Beat Generation (redirect from Beat poets)
    Six Gallery poets. It was also a marker of the beginning of the Beat movement since the 1956 publication of Howl (City Lights Pocket Poets, no. 4), and...
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    Mahogany L. Browne (category African-American poets)
    Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-12-05. Poets, Academy of American. "poets.org | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-12-03...
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    Russians of African descent. The Metis Foundation estimates that there were about 30,000 Afro-Russians in 2013. Representatives of African peoples in the...
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