Alice Dunbar Nelson was born Alice Ruth Moore on July 19, 1875, in the bustling, sun-drenched city of New Orleans, Louisiana, a place where the Mississippi River whispered stories of resilience and reinvention into the ears of its diverse inhabitants. She died on September 18, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixty, her heart finally succumbing to the strains of a life lived with fierce passion and…
“Such a man was Livingstone, not afraid to be meek in order to be great; not afraid to fear God and work hard; not ashamed to stoop in order that he might raise others to his high estate.”
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, LGBTQ+ Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Alice Corbin Henderson, born Alice Corbin on 16 April 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, and dead on 18 July 1949 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, occupies an important if still insufficiently celebrated place in American literary history. She was a poet of lyrical concentration, an editor whose judgment helped define a revolutionary period in verse, a critic attentive to the relation between art and place, and a cultural organize…
“It is usually a single image, simple or complex, and the variations are in the nature of amplifications of this image.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Tenderness
