'Minor Notes, Volume 1' Celebrates Forgotten Black Poets

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 4, 2023

A new anthology series publishes the work of Black poets who have been forgotten in history. Minor Notes, Volume 1, includes the work of poets George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, David Wadsworth Cannon Jr., Anne Spencer, and Angelina Weld Grimké. Editors Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy join to discuss the project, the history of these Black poets, and read from the collection.

 

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