I lived from 1915-1986.
I was from the United States.
Born in Kentucky on January 12, 1915, Margaret Danner wrote her first prize winning poem in 1923 when she was merely eight years of age "The Violin" appeared in many books published later in life. As a youngster, her parents moved to Chicago. She was the first African-American to be assistant editor of the avant-garde magazine Poetry: "The Magazine of Verse".
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She later became poet-in residence at Wayne State University, and the Poet-in-Residence at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and later held the same position at LeMoyne Owen College in Memphis.
In collaboration with poet Dudley Randall, Danner and he published "Poem Counterpoem" in 1966, a volume of Black poetry. That same year she traveled to Africa to read her poetry and found inspiration for future poems grounded in an African aesthetic; these works are thought by critics to be her best work.
Margaret Danner continued to edit poetry anthologies and produced two more volumes of poetry before she died in Chicago in 1986.
My poetry
While some "rap" over this turmoil
of who was Blackest first
12 lines
A grandson is
the wing-sprouting cherub
49 lines
When the African Arts,
home again,
30 lines
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