https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/books/tracy-k-smith-is-the-new-poet-laureate.html?emc=edit_th_20170614&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=58215227&referer=android-app://com.google.android.gm

 

 

Adding information on another African-American Poetry Queen Rita Dove.  Ms. Dove was also a Poet Laureate.

http://people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

https://g.co/kgs/EDtaF6

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/rita-dove

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rita-dove