DC Literary History

Poems and Essays:

be loving ourselves/be sisters: Lucille Clifton Reminds Us that We are American Poetry

A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance

A Brother, A Neighbor, A Washingtonian: Gil Scott-Heron

Ahmos Zu-Bolton’s Poetry of Invention

Brian Gilmore on “May Miller, The Silence”

Dan Vera on Sterling A. Brown

Kim Roberts on Georgia Douglas Johnson

Literary Organizations Issue

Merrill Leffler on Ernest Kroll (1913-1995)

Peter Montgomery on Eugene McCarthy (March 29, 1916, Minnesota – December 10, 2005, Washington, DC)

Poetic Ancestors

Regie Cabico on Essex Hemphill

The Bard of Main 903: M.L. Rosenthal Revisited

The Howard Poets