News at Eleven: Alongside the six "Caucasian males" who

laid "the framework for modern poetry"--Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and E.E. Cummings--[Rita] Dove includes most of the major players of the Harlem Renaissance, while alongside the familiar figures of the Black Mountain school she gives space to the more famous voices from the Black Arts Movement, among them Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and Haki Madhubuti. She also makes room for outliers whose status as important American poets is often minimized or ignored, "the poor, the nonwhite, the female voices" who were kept "from being heard for much of the century," or those white men who were overshadowed by their peers in "the cultural elite."

from The Nation: Shelf Life

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