National Black Poetry Day
October 17: National Black Poetry Day - Recognizing Black Authors Past & Present
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who Inspired Maya Angelou?
(originally posted April 2012...edited / updated May 2014)
My mom would read Paul Laurence Dunbar poems to me often when I was about 5 Years-Old (and probably earlier but I can't remember)...among all the poems she read to me from him....