Black Classic Press has reissued works by which African-American poet and dramatist?
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Black Classic Press Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Dorothy B. Porter, as well as reissuing significant works by Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden, Bobby Seale, J. A. Rogers, and others.
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Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, previously known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for "Tales of the Out and the Gone".
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Antoinette Nwandu Antoinette Nwandu is an African-American playwright based in New York.
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Heroic drama Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England, distinguished by both its verse structure and its subject matter. The subgenre of heroic drama evolved through several works of the middle to later 1660s; John Dryden's "The Indian Emperour" (1665) and Roger Boyle's "The Black Prince" (1667) were key developments.
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Robert Bernard Hass Robert Bernard Hass (born 1962) is an American poet, literary critic, and professor.
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William Virgil Davis William Virgil Davis is an American poet.
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Naomi Long Madgett Naomi Long Madgett (born July 5, 1923) is an African-American poet, born Naomi Cornelia Long in Norfolk, Virginia. A former teacher and an award-winning poet, she is also the senior editor of Lotus Press, a publisher of poetry books by black poets.
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List of honors received by Maya Angelou African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was honored by universities, literary organizations, government agencies, and special interest groups. Her honors include a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book of poetry "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie," a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1973 play "Look Away", and five Grammys for her spoken albums. Beginning in 1982, Angelou held the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Jesse Lynch Williams Jesse Lynch Williams (August 17, 1871 – September 14, 1929) was an American author and dramatist.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an African American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Fauset’s literary work helped sculpt African American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, “passing,” and feminism. From 1919-1926, Fauset’s position as literary editor of "The Crisis," a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era. Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she discouraged black writers from lessening the racial qualities of the characters in their work, and encouraged them to write honestly and openly about the African American race. She wanted a realistic and positive representation of the African American community in literature that had never before been as prominently displayed. Before and after working on "The Crisis," she worked for decades as a French teacher in public schools in Washington, DC and New York City. She published four novels during the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the lives of the black middle-class. She also was the editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine "The Brownies' Book." She is known for discovering and mentoring other African American writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.
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Major Jackson Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton, 2010) and Hoops (W.W. Norton, 2006), finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle.
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William Attaway William Alexander Attaway (November 19, 1911 – June 17, 1986) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.
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Mari Evans Mari Evans (July 16, 1919 – March 10, 2017) was an African-American poet. In 1984 she edited one of the first critical books devoted to the work of black women writers, called "Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation". Evans died at the age of 97 in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 10, 2017.
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Ed Bullins Ed Bullins (born July 2, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American playwright. He was also the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. In addition, he has won numerous awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and several Obie Awards. He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement.
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Gregory Loselle Gregory Loselle (born 1963) is an American poet, dramatist, and writer of short fiction.
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Percy MacKaye Percy MacKaye (1875–1956) was an American dramatist and poet.
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Elizabeth Alexander (poet) Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright. After 15 years at Yale University, where she taught poetry and chaired the African American Studies department, Alexander joined the faculty of Columbia University in 2016.
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Hattie Gossett Hattie Gossett is an African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor. Her work focuses on bolstering the self-esteem of young black women.
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Josephine Preston Peabody Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.
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Elma Stuckey Elma Johnson Stuckey (1907–1988) was an African American poet. Her poetry concerned the lives of black people from the days of slavery up through the late 1980s.
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Stewart Brown Stewart Brown (born in 1951 in Southampton, UK) is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.
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Karen Press Karen Press (born 1956) is a South African poet.