poet

Edward Thomas was a literary critic, biographer, and travel and nature writer for decades before he turned his hand to poetry at the age of thirty-six, at the suggestion of his close friend Robert Frost. World War I broke out shortly after this decision, and in 1915 Thomas enlisted. His first...

Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the leading female poets of the Harlem Renaissance, who held the “S Street Salon” that brought her fellow African-American writers to her home in Washington, D.C. Her poetry collections The Heart of a Woman and An Autumn Love Cycle center nonracial, feminine...