Today's New York Times includes a story about the abolitionist poet, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. I am sorry to say that her name nor her poetry are to be found anywhere on my bookshelves, not even among the collections of Black poetry. This Times article suggests why - her poetry was largely overlooked until the 1990s - and is in fact written as part of the newspaper's "Overlooked No More" series.
Well, I am pleased Harper's work has been highlighted during this Black History Month. Now it's on me to find her poems and read them.
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