Minor Notes, Volume 1 Av George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson

<i>Minor Notes Vol. 1</i> features the work of three poets. Published in 1837, <i>Poems by a Slave </i>is one of the lesser-known works by George Moses Horton<i></i>(1798-1883), once popularly known as the ''black bard of North Carolina.'' <i>Visions of the Dusk (1915) </i>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 read<i></i>black woman poet in the US during the first three decades of the 20th century.<i> Bronze: A Book of Verse (1922) </i>was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.