The anthology of African-American nature poetry features work by contemporary writers, and writers like 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley.... 'Black Nature': Poems Of Promise And Survival Camille T.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Even on a computer screen, Ada Limón, who is serving her second term as poet laureate of ...

Camille T. Dungy, the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, calls her book a first of its kind. The nearly 200 poems in the anthology reach back to the mid-1700s, ...