Tuesday, April 21, 2026

OBSCURE POET

 


HELENE JOHNSON.  (1906-1995)

Born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Poet

Attended Boston University & Columbia University

Became part of the Harlem Renaissance

Her work combines description of ghetto life and the roots of her people

Published poems n small magazines during the 1920s and early 1930s

Didn't publish any poems after the mid 1930s though she continued writing. 

Affected by osteoporosis in later years

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