Sublime

“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”

Ens

Fly to me, Pierre;—nay, I could tear what I now write,—as

She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look a

Poetry aims for an economy of truth—loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions—beautiful writing rarely is. I wanted to learn to write, which was ultimately, still, as my mother had taught me, a confro

language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive “othering”

Annie Allen (1949) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, making her the first ever Black author to do so;