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Charlotte Forten Grimké

1837 — 1914

Published poems in The Liberator. A founding member of the National Association of Colored Women, she continued to write essays and poems in her later years.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction.

The complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author.

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Phillis Wheatley

1753 - 1784

The African American poetic tradition begins with Phillis Wheatley.

Wheatley was the first Black woman to publish a book—Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)—while in the Americas.

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

1825 - 1911

Contributed to The Liberator, Frederick Douglass’s Monthly, and the Anglo-African Magazine.

Published many collections of poetry, including Autumn Leaves (also published as Forest Leaves) (1845); Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854); Sketches of Southern Life (1872); Poems (1857); The Martyr of Alabama and Other Poems (1892); The Sparrow’s Fall and Other Poems (1894); and Atlanta Offering (1895).

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Phillis Wheatley, poet.

To S.M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works (excerpt)

When first thy pencil did those beauties give, / And breathing figures learnt from thee to live

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Rocannon's World

How can you tell the legend from the fact on these worlds that lie so many years away?—planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is the matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings of a few years back have become the gestures of a god.

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David Drake

c.1800 - c.1870s

Around 1840, began signing the shoulders and sides of some of his glazed pots, some of which contained his inscriptions, usually rhyming couplets. Produced more than 100 signed and dated pots.

David Drake's Poetic Pottery at the de Young Museum.

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