Georgia Douglas Johnson was a luminous voice in American literature, a poet whose words captured the fluttering heart of womanhood, the weight of racial identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit during one of the most vibrant eras of Black artistic expression. Born on September 10, 1880, in Atlanta, Georgia, and passing away on May 15, 1966, in Washington, D.C., she lived through sweeping changes—from th…
“I have been fortunate in having the friendship of all of you winged artists. It has been one of my blessings.”
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., born 12 February 1861 near Bardstown in Nelson County, Kentucky, and dead 14 March 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky, lived across one of the most consequential spans in African American history. He was born in the final weeks before the Civil War, came of age amid Reconstruction’s uncertain promises, worked and wrote through the entrenchment of Jim Crow, and survived long enough to witness the f…
Neighbourhood:
African American Poets, American Poets, Devotional Poets, Harlem Renaissance, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
