biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She studied at Hunter College (1955 BA), and taught at several institutions, including Temple University, Philadelphia (from 1977). A black nationalist and political activist, she is known for persuasive and metaphorical poetry, as in homegirls & handgrenades (1984). Later poetry includes Under a Soprano Sky (1986) and Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (1999). She also writes plays, short stories, and children's books, and she has edited African-American anthologies. |
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