Friday, June 12, 2026
POETS BORN IN JUNE
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lucille Clifton
Stephen Dunn
Allen Ginsberg
Federico Garcia Lorca
Czecslaw Milosz
Vikram Seth
W. B. Yeats
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OBSCURE POET
ALBERY ALSTON WHITMAN (1851-1901)
Born in slavery in Kentucky
Epic poet, minister, orator
Wrote book-length narrative poems detailing the African-American experience.
Pastored church in Springfield, Ohio
Attempted to write Romantic poetry. Was inspired by Lord Byron.
Poet Laureate of the black race
Struggled with alcoholism and illness
Died from pneumonia
WORKS
* Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
* The Rape of Florida republished as Twesinta Seminoles (1884)
* An Idyl of the South. (1901)
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