Occupation – Literary – Poet
Amanda S. C. Gorman (1998- ) [Children’s Edition]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: Amanda S....
Amanda S. C. Gorman (1998- )
Poet and activist Amanda S. C. Gorman was born on March 7, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. She has an...
Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. (1920-1995)
Diplomat, Historian, Poet, Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. was born September 30, 1920, in Albany, Georgia but grew up in Cleveland,...
Dominga Cruz-Becerril (1909-1981)
Dominga de la Cruz-Becerril, socialist, lecturer, poet, and declamadora, was born April 22, 1909 in Bueno Aires, Ponce, Puerto Rico...
Yvonne Denis-Rosario, (1967- )
Yvonne Denis-Rosario, columnist, librettist, narrator, novelist, poet, professor, radio/ TV host and producer, was born March 9, 1967 in San...
Tato Laviera (1951-2013)
Jesús Abraham “Tato” Laviera Sánchez, community activist, poet, declamador, playwright, author, and “a chronicler of life in El Barrio,” was...
Julia de Burgos (1914-1953)
Julia de Burgos was a celebrated literary icon of the Americas whose themes of Blackness, feminism, love, migration, nationalism, and...
Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
A professor, poet, and playwright of English, Dutch, and African descent, Derek Walcott was a 1981 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant...
George Moses Horton (1797-ca. 1880)
George Moses Horton, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry in the South during the antebellum period, was the author of...
