Another's Perspective

We typically overlook and under look a modern poet. Is it because when we as a society think of what it's like to be considered a great poet we think of the Langston Hughes, the Maya Angelou's, the Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin or even Alice Walker? But what made them great is that they wrote poetry for their eras, for their current struggles, inspired by their own obstacles and the given vernacular of those eras. A renaissance isn't necessarily a resistance, but it's a time in history wh...