Biographical Info
What year or state was she born in
Name one award she got for her poetry
The Pulitzer Prize, Poet Laureate, or the National Endowment for the Arts’s Lifetime Achievement Award
She focused on the experiences of Black people in what years?
Name 3 of her poems, NOT IN THE PACKET
A Penitent Considers Another Coming Of Mary
The Bean Eaters
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
The Bean Eaters
The Blackstone Rangers
The Coora Flower
The Crazy Woman
The Egg Boiler
The Good Man
The Independent Man
The Last Quatrain Of The Ballad Of Emmett Till
The Life Of Lincoln West
The Lovers of the Poor
The Mother
The Near-Johannesburg Boy
We Real cool
What did she spend her later life doing
Sponsoring student poetry competitions and teaching English at Chicago State University
She was America's first black ___ ___ representing Illinois
Poet Laureate
What structure did she write most of her poems in?
Free verse (or half points for sonnets)
Why was the second Black Writer’s Conference a metamorphosis for her poetry
Because she "rediscovered her blackness"
What was the name of her first published poem?
Eventide
What is the name of the collection of poetry that won her the Pulitzer Prize.
Annie Allen
Her work focused on the intersectionality of ___, ___, and ___.
Race, Class, and Gender
Finish the quote "poetry is ___ ___"
Life distilled
Where did she work after junior college
The National Association for the Advancement of The Colored People
What is the name of her first published collection of poetry
A Street in Bronzeville
Traditional European poetry styles
What were both of her parents occupations