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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
The Literary Corner by writers of the world. A series of analyses and interpretations of black world literature. Today our guest is black American poet Margaret Essie Danner.

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{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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Poetry isn't white. Poetry isn't black. Poetry is individual and it attains the creative height that makes it belong to mankind.
There was a war, must have been World War Two
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and they marched to Claude McKay's poem 'If we must die let it not be like hogs", Winston Churchill I think it was said this, it came out over the loudspeakers, to egg his men on to win, this World War Two

"If you must die, let it not be like hogs", you know Claude McKay? Or have read him? You see, so that poem wasn't white it wasn't black it was truth. It was individual expression.
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{SPEAKER name="Brooks B. Robinson"}
Margaret Essie Danner, black American poet and writer. Educated at Roosevelt College, Loyola University and Northwestern University, Margaret Danner is a former poet in residence at Wayne State University, Detroit, and LeMoyne-Owen College Memphis, Tennessee.
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She is founder and director of Boone House Cultural Center in Detroit and former Assistant Editor of Poetry Magazine. She has received many awards for her poetry including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship. Miss Danner's writings are widely anthologized, however. She has often been described as 'communicating poet'. Now to an inter...
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