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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).
Spencer published most of her poems during the 1920s in the period's most prestigious collections: James Weldon Johnson's The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922); Robert T. Kerlin's Negro Poets and Their Poems (1923); Louis Untermeyer's American Poetry Since 1900 (1923); Alain Locke's The New Negro (1925); and Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk ...
Anne Spencer. 1882 –. 1975. Most things are colorful things—the sky, earth, and sea. Black men are most men; but the white are free! White things are rare things; so rare, so rare. They stole from out a silvered world—somewhere. Finding earth-plains fair plains, save greenly grassed, They strewed white feathers of cowardice, as they passed;
31 de may. de 2023 · Anne Spencer. 1882 –. 1975. I have a friend. And my heart from hence. Is closed to friendship, Nor the gods’ knees hold but one; He watches with me thru the long night, And when I call he comes, Or when he calls I am there; He does not ask me how beloved. Are my husband and children, Nor ever do I require. Details of life and love.
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.
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…
