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Harlem Renaissance poet and activist Anne Bethel Scales Bannister Spencer was born on a Virginia farm in 1882. The daughter of former slaves, Spencer’s mother enrolled her in school for the first time when she was 11, at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College (now...
Spencer passed away from cancer at the age of 93 in 1975. She is buried alongside her husband, who died in 1964, at Forest Hills Cemetery in Lynchburg. In 2019, the United States Postal Service announced that Spencer would be honored on a Forever Stamp as part of the “Voices of the Harlem Renaissance” series, alongside writer and critic ...
24 de nov. de 2019 · Anne Spencer, born Annie Bethel Bannister (February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975), was a poet, teacher, librarian, gardener, and civil rights activist. In this sampling of poems by Anne Spencer, we experience her affinity for nature, love, and life itself. Anne Spencer was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Spencer was the first African-American woman poet published in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1973). She used traditional forms like sonnets, epigrams, and elegies, and most of her poems are short, with few extending beyond 20 lines. Her poetry draws on universal themes such as religion and mythology as well as her garden and nature.
ANNE SPENCER, ACTIVIST AND POET Anne Spencer (1882–1975) was a lifelong activist, a key figure in the African American literary tradition, and a woman acutely aware of modernity’s chal-lenges and possibilities. During the 1920s, Spencer’s Lynchburg, Virginia home became an important gathering place for Harlem Renaissance thinkers, writers,
Anne Spencer is remembered as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance—a flowering of African American culture and arts that began after World War I and extended into the 1930s. She wrote in a romantic vein about love, the search for meaning in life, women’s lives and struggles, and the experience of African Americans.
6 de feb. de 2021 · Shaun Spencer-Hester, one of Anne’s 10 grandchildren, fondly remembers playing in her grandmother’s garden and now relishes helping to preserve her remarkable legacy at the museum, which she lives nearby. As Spencer-Hester recounts, her grandmother's life was lived against the relentless friction of racism and sexism.
