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ANNE
SPENCER
Harlem Renaissance Poet
1882-1975
When
the Harlem Renaissance began in the 1920s,
Anne
Spencer
was almost forty years old and had been
writing poetry for many years. Her first
poem "The Skeptic" was written
when she was a teenager living in Bramwell,
West Virginia. While living in Bramwell,
Anne developed a deep appreciation for nature
which became the inspiration for her poetry.
As a poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Anne
Spencer was a representative of the emergence
of a significant number of African-American
intellectuals and artists who found themselves
suddenly educated with something to say
and available avenues through which to say
it. Her work was anthologized in Sterling
Brown’s The Negro Caravan and James
Weldon Johnson’s Book of American Negro
Poetry among others.
Spencer
is portrayed by:
BRUCELLA JORDAN
Phone: 304-658-5526
bwjordan@earthlink.net
The
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