He has been studying a group of young black poets.
Most of the black poets I knew didn't go to college.
The title is an homage to June Jordan, the late black poet.
At that time, late in 1924, Hughes, the black poet, had just returned from Europe and was beginning to make a name for himself.
Maloise, a black poet, was convicted of murdering a policeman.
Impressed with the poems, Lindsay publicized his discovery of a new black poet.
Its intention, he writes in the introduction, is to show the progress of black poets through American history.
Now a Governor of Arkansas is seen by this black poet as the person who can finally bring the nation together.
Not only her own poems but also the works of black poets long swallowed by history.
It needs to be incorporated in all textbooks, not just a poem by a black poet at the end of a book.