Minor Notes Volume 1

<i>Minor Notes Vol. 1</i> features the work of three poets. Published in 1837 <i>Poems by a Slave </i>is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton<i> </i>(1798-1883) once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' <i>Visions of the Dusk (1915) </i>is an American prose poem known for its formal innovation by Fenton Johnson a poet essayist editor and educator from Chicago. Georgia Douglas Johnson was the most widely read<i> </i>black woman poet in the US during the first three decades of the 20th century.<i> Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922) </i>was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.