The Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks and Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

"We should use soft flutes to shape their limbs / / they will not always give in to some of the delicate savages; we will not cry forever." (Karen) It was enslaved until the Civil War. After the end of slavery, the liberated group began fighting for political equality, eventually the first of a series of events ending with the Harlem Renaissance, the period during which most African Americans moved to the cities I started things. Northeast and Midwest USA

The herlem of Harlem Renaissance opened the door and had a profound influence on subsequent generations of African-American writers, including Robert Hayden and Gwendolin Brooks. In the 1940 's, 1950' s and 1960 's, Hayden taught at the University of Fisker and the University of Michigan and served as a poetry consultant for two terms in the Congress library. After her first book, the city of Bronze Street, was published in 1945, Brooks combined a calm life and success. Her second book, Annie Allen, was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize. Pull it almost 40 years later

In the past few months I have found myself in many of the conversations by Robert Hayden's poet "Frederick Douglas". This makes sense. Given that Mr. Barack Obama was elected, the poem seems particularly relevant, but its relevance far exceeds our first African American President. Like the best poet, "Frederick Douglas" is urgent and timeless. The moment to light up and transcend us. As a way to explore this poem, this masterpiece worked within us, and the four poets and myself answered this question (I asked a few days after Barack Obama took office). Is "Frederick Douglas" important to you? "