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508:Phantom Nightingale: Juvenilia: poems, 1934â1943
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229:to Romantic and Victorian English poets such as
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1187:"2012 Kresge Eminent Artist Naomi Long Madgett"
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383:Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men
713:Melba Joyce Boyd; M. L. Liebler, eds. (2001).
463:, Exposition Press, 1956 (including "Midway").
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283:In 1949 Madgett's poem "Refugee" appeared in
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719:Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001
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937:Green, Penelope (December 4, 2020).
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3608:21st-century American women writers
3588:20th-century American women writers
2723:Sister Mary Francilene Van de Vyver
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613:You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems
481:Lotus Press, 1972 (reprinted 1990).
419:You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems
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651:The Poetry of the Negro: 1746â1949
417:Madgett's last poetry collection,
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223:and Robert T. Kerlin's anthology
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988:Jaussen, Paul (April 11, 2015).
721:. Wayne State University Press.
715:"City Nights; Grand Circus Park"
637:Selected anthology contributions
259:in 1946, but that year moved to
3643:People from Ypsilanti, Michigan
2858:Dorean Marguerite Hurley Koenig
1142:Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
990:"The New Broadside Lotus Press"
690:; Hilary Herbold, eds. (2006).
556:Michigan State University Press
3678:Writers from Norfolk, Virginia
3633:East Orange High School alumni
1037:"The Naomi Long Madgett Award"
823:"Naomi Long Madgett Biography"
596:Pilgrim Journey: Autobiography
455:Songs to a Phantom Nightingale
318:The Blue River Poetry Magazine
246:Songs to a Phantom Nightingale
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1272:Mamie Geraldine Neale Bledsoe
1233:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
479:Pink Ladies in the Afternoon,
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2676:Woman's Hospital Association
1900:Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac
1531:Louise (Sally) Langdon Brown
853:Wayne State University Press
617:Wayne State University Press
439:College Language Association
298:In 1955, she graduated from
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3583:20th-century American poets
3337:Margaret Kirchner Stevenson
2007:Carrie Frazier Rogers-Brown
1277:Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
964:. Oxford University Press.
698:. Oxford University Press.
441:Creative Achievement Award.
414:schools and universities".
344:Eastern Michigan University
226:Negro Poets and Their Poems
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2264:Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy
2017:Waunetta McClellan Dominic
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253:Virginia State University
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2386:Lucille Hanna McCollough
2330:Francie Kraker Goodridge
2259:Dauris Gwendolyn Jackson
1920:Genora Johnson Dollinger
1788:Luise Ruth Leismer Mahon
1602:Bernadine Newsom Denning
1167:The website for the film
1144:, Broadside Lotus Press.
1088:. Kresge Arts in Detroit
3102:Lucille Farrier Stickel
2615:Martha Strickland Clark
2559:Margaret Sellers Walker
2134:Dorrie Ellen Rosenblatt
2068:Four Sisters of Charity
2063:Marion Corwell-Shertzer
1991:Jacquelin E. Washington
1956:Yolanda Alvarado-Ortega
1849:Katherine Hill Campbell
1701:Delia Villegas Vorhauer
1686:Emelia Christine Schaub
1661:Emily Helen Butterfield
1587:Anna Sutherland Bissell
1459:Marjorie Peebles-Meyers
1454:Marjorie Swank Matthews
1383:Emma Genevieve Gillette
1373:Caroline Bartlett Crane
1262:Harriette Simpson Arnow
1039:. Broadside Lotus Press
792:. Broadside Lotus Press
661:New Negro Poets: U.S.A.
526:Octavia and Other Poems
461:One and the Many: Poems
435:Octavia and Other Poems
334:New Negro Poets: U.S.A.
285:The Poetry of the Negro
207:East Orange High School
191:East Orange, New Jersey
3613:African-American poets
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3524:Denise Langford Morris
3503:Danielle Camille Woods
3493:Mary Kramer (Michigan)
3179:Elizabeth Sparks Adams
3087:Marylou Olivarez Mason
3077:Mary Carmelita Manning
3052:Elizabeth Lehman Belen
2483:Geraldine Bledsoe Ford
2366:Julia Wheelock Freeman
2361:Hortense Golden Canady
2345:Joesphine Stern Weiner
2320:Theresa Maxis Duchemin
2310:Cora Reynolds Anderson
2185:Margaret Drake Elliott
2022:Margaret Muth Laurence
1930:Sarah Van Hoosen Jones
1747:Dorothy Comstock Riley
1485:Marion Isabel Barnhart
1393:Magdelaine Laframboise
1342:Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
1282:Mary Stallings Coleman
323:Negro History Bulletin
300:Wayne State University
117:Virginia State College
3673:Writers from Missouri
3357:Vernice Davis Anthony
3255:Lisette Denison Forth
3219:Lou Anna Kimsey Simon
3082:Barbara Roberts Mason
3031:Elizabeth Eaglesfield
2620:Helen Hornbeck Tanner
2371:Lillian Mellen Genser
2254:Katherine G. Heideman
2144:Martha Jean Steinberg
2119:Hilda Patricia Curran
1971:Lucia Voorhees Grimes
1940:Helen Walker McAndrew
1834:Edith Vosburgh Alvord
1546:Frances Alvord Harris
1490:Patricia Hill Burnett
877:Crutchfield, Clarke,
598:. Lotus Press. 2006.
580:. Lotus Press. 2004.
510:. Lotus Press. 1981.
492:. Lotus Press. 1978.
449:Selected bibliography
376:Broadside Lotus Press
3663:Writers from Detroit
3628:American women poets
3498:Mary Locke Petermann
3483:Esther Gordy Edwards
3421:Atlas Ruth Westbrook
3011:Joan Jackson Johnson
2853:Sherrill Freeborough
2843:Sandra Laser Draggoo
2585:Mary Esther Daddazio
2442:Eliza Seaman Leggett
2437:Joyce Lewis Kornbluh
2335:Marian Bayoff Ilitch
2279:Marilyn Fisher Lundy
2249:Loney Clinton Gordon
2205:Emily Burton Ketcham
2098:Matilda Dodge Wilson
2073:Della McGraw Goodwin
2032:Betsy Graves Reyneau
2027:Claudia House Morcom
1915:Bertha A. Daubendiek
1854:Lenna Frances Cooper
1818:Charleszetta Waddles
1798:Martha Romayne Seger
1671:Dorothy Leonard Judd
1378:Marguerite de Angeli
1312:Laura Smith Haviland
1192:"Naomi Long Madgett"
911:"Naomi Long Madgett"
737:References and notes
632:, Lotus Press, 1992.
474:. Harlo Press. 1965.
278:Naomi L. Witherspoon
195:Orange Daily Courier
177:Madgett was born as
99:editor and publisher
82:Naomi L. Witherspoon
3648:Poets from Virginia
3462:Sarah Elizabeth Ray
3311:Clara Stanton Jones
3209:Mary Free Bed Guild
3001:Judith Levin Cantor
2975:Eva McCall Hamilton
2838:Augusta Jane Chapin
2833:Laura Carter Callow
2539:Lida Holmes Mattman
2432:Alice Scanlan Kocel
2401:Muriel Dorothy Ross
2396:Martha Louise Rayne
2376:May Stocking Knaggs
2269:Marjorie J. Lansing
2139:Ella Merriman Sharp
2083:Nancy Harkness Love
2042:Joan Luedders Wolfe
2037:Shirley E. Schwartz
1986:Laura Freele Osborn
1884:Irene Clark Woodman
1859:Roberta A. Griffith
1783:Violet Temple Lewis
1566:Sarah Goddard Power
1541:Marcia J. Federbush
1439:Elizabeth C. Crosby
1408:Jessie Pharr Slaton
1302:Martha W. Griffiths
1177:, October 12, 2017.
1114:. January 27, 2012.
917:. Oxford Reference.
898:Daughters of Africa
488:Exits and Entrances
470:Star by Star: Poems
402:Her autobiography,
393:American Book Award
257:New York University
179:Naomi Cornelia Long
43:Naomi Cornelia Long
3306:Mona Hanna-Attisha
3138:Mabel White Holmes
3067:Dorothy A. Johnson
2996:Elizabeth W. Bauer
2950:Mary Jane Dockeray
2919:Rose Mary Robinson
2904:Valeria Lipczynski
2774:Elizabeth Phillips
2769:Kay Givens McGowan
2610:Dora Hall Stockman
2452:Marion Weyant Ruth
2381:Naomi Long Madgett
2340:Mary Ellen Riordan
2289:Kathleen N. Straus
2200:Ella Eaton Kellogg
1808:Sylvia M. Stoesser
1778:Sarah Emma Edmonds
1752:Edith Mays Swanson
1681:Fannie M. Richards
1556:Agnes Mary Mansour
1551:M. Jane Kay Nugent
1130:Detroit Free Press
1112:The Ann Arbor News
1084:Perron, Michelle.
944:The New York Times
884:The Times-Dispatch
827:The History Makers
273:Michigan Chronicle
235:William Wordsworth
215:Sumner High School
163:Naomi Long Madgett
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3097:Mary Ellen Sheets
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1418:Bertha Van Hoosen
1398:Martha Longstreet
1388:Icie Macy Hoobler
1327:Helen W. Milliken
1267:N. Lorraine Beebe
971:978-0-19-513883-2
728:978-0-8143-2810-1
705:978-0-19-512563-4
675:, Jonathan Cape.
605:978-0-916418-97-7
587:978-0-916418-94-6
565:978-0-87013-345-9
539:978-0-88378-121-0
530:Third World Press
517:978-0-916418-30-4
499:978-0-916418-13-7
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