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Yes, friend these include the web pages of the former Bonvibre's Phat African American Poetry Book on AOL from January 1996 to October 1999. Thank Snally for this help.

BIG Exhibitions	SMALL Exhibitions
Black Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature	Back to Bonvibre's Other Poetry Book
Harlem Renaissance

But first ...

On a late-winter night early in 1939, Billie Holiday stood on stage at New York's Cafe Society and, with a single pin light illuminating her face, sang a new song called Strange Fruit:

Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood on the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar tees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnlas, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Read more on Strange Fruit.

BIG Websites ...
Maya Angelou - poetry, novels	Amiri Baraka = LeRoi Jones - poetry	Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry
Octavia Butler - scifi (discontinued)	Lucille Clifton - poetry	Samuel Delany - scifi, contemp lit, essays
Rita Dove - poetry	Paul Laurence Dunbar - poetry	Nikki Giovanni - poetry
Dick Gregory - humor, politics	Chester Himes - mystery, protest fiction	The Last Poets - poetry
June Jordan - poetry, plays	Haki Madhubuti = Don Lee - poetry	Toni Morrison - novels
Walter Mosley - mysteries	Ishmael Reed - novels, poetry	Jean Toomer - poetry
Derek Walcott - poetry, plays	Alice Walker - poetry, contemp lit, essays	Richard Wright - poetry, literature

Bonvibre's Poety Book
Arna Bontemps	Countee Cullen	Mari Evans
Gloria Wade-Gayles	Langston Hughes	Georgia D. Johnson
Helene Johnson	Audre Lorde	Claude McKay
Eugene Redmond	Sonia Sanchez	Ntozake Shange
Sekou Sundiata
Bonvibre's OTHER Poety Book (30 poets)

Black Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1993: TONI MORRISON who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.

1992: DEREK WALCOTT for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.

1988: NAGUIB MAHFOUZ who, through works rich in nuance-now clearsightedly realistic, now evocatively ambigous-has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.

1986: WOLE SOYINKA who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.

list of Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates

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