Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton(1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) 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 readblack woman poet in the US during the first three decades of the 20th century. Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922) was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.
About the Author
Joshua Bennett is a poet and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several books of poetry and criticism and has been published in The New York Times and The Paris Review. He is also the co-editor of Minor Notes, a Penguin Classics series dedicated to lesser known poets within the Black expressive tradition He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son, Pam and August, and their family dog, Apollo 5.
Tracy K. Smith is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017 she was named Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
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