Napa Valley Register

First Native American to hold title of poet laureate named

Poet and author Joy Harjo has been named as the United States' 23rd poet laureate. Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, will be the first Native American poet to hold the honor. "Joy Harjo ...
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When the rain sings : poems by young Native Americans / National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

A collection of poems written by young Native Americans, inspired by or matched with photographs of artifacts and people from the National Museum of the American Indian. siris_sil_570783 ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

The path to poetry: Dunmore native publishes first book of poems

A poet from Dunmore uses his imagination and love of prose to paint a picture of the town he grew up in. JC Roberts recently published his first book of poetry, “The Cobblestones I Know.” The book is ...
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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

Click to open image viewer. Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, whereupon she was sold to John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston, ...