poets
Jazz Poetry
Beginning with the birth of blues and jazz at the start of the twentieth century, jazz poetry is can be seen as a thread that runs through the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat movement, and the Black Arts Movement—and it is still vibrant today.
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name |
years | schools & movements |
|---|---|---|
| Al Young | 1939- | Jazz Poetry |
| Sonia Sanchez | 1934- | Black Arts, Jazz Poetry |
| Kenneth Rexroth | 1905-1982 | Objectivists, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, Jazz Poetry |
| Mina Loy | 1882-1966 | Modernism, Fireside Poet, Jazz Poetry |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | 1947- | Surrealism, Jazz Poetry |
| Langston Hughes | 1902-1967 | Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Poetry |
| Michael S. Harper | 1938-2016 | Jazz Poetry |
| Calvin Forbes | 1945- | Jazz Poetry |
| Jayne Cortez | 1934-2012 | Black Arts, Jazz Poetry |
| Hayden Carruth | Symbolists, Jazz Poetry |