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24 de nov. de 2019 · Her passions include connecting more with her Latin roots by researching and writing about legendary Latina authors. Presented here are 10 poems by African-American poet and civil rights activist Anne Spencer (1914 – 1953) exploring nature, love, and life.
Spencer’s poetry engages themes of religion, race, and the natural world. Thirty of her poems were published during her lifetime, in such anthologies as The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) and Caroling Dusk (1927). She was the first African American woman...
Many of Spencer's poems convey a romantic concern with the human search for beauty and meaning in an unfriendly universe, as well as people's unstable attempts to impose order on God's earth. Poems in this vein include "At the Carnival" and "Change."
Her poems are included in Countee Cullen’s Caroling Dusk, Johnson’s The Book of American Negro Poetry, Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes’ The Poetry of the Negro, and the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Her work continues to be anthologized today. A Sampling of Anne Spencer’s Poetry…
At the Carnival. Before the Feast of Shushan. Black Man o' Mine. Creed. Dunbar. Earth, I Thank You. For Jim, Easter Eve. Grapes: Still-Life. He Said. I Have a Friend. Innocence. Lady, Lady. Letter to my Sister. Life-long, Poor Browning.
At the Carnival. By Anne Spencer. Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank, I desire a name for you, Nice, as a right glove fits; For you—who amid the malodorous. Mechanics of this unlovely thing, Are darling of spirit and form. I know you—a glance, and what you are.
Anne Spencer Poetry. Anne Spencer was an American poet and civil rights activist who worked at an all-Black High School as a librarian for twenty years. Most of her work was published during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and was respected during her lifetime.
