"BROTHERHOOD" #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson
Come, brothers all!
Shall we not wend
The blind way of our prison-world
By sympathy entwined?
Shall we not make
The bleak way for each other's sake
Less rugged and unkind?
O let each throbbing heart repeat ...

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/georgi...

✒️ #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson, African American Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright, was #BOTD 10 September 1877. #Poetry #Theatre

I Want to Die While You Love Me
Georgia Douglas Johnson
1927
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#poems #apoemaday #poetry #poetry #poetryisnotdead #poetrygram #poetrycommunity #poemsdaily #blackhistorymonth #bhm #blackhistory #georgiadouglasjohnson #georgiajohnson #harlemrenaissance #harlem

" #Motherhood is Cruel: A Message from #Modernist Women"-- working title for one of my final term papers this semester.

Shout outs to:
> #KätheKollwitz
> #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson
> #NellaLarsen
> #VirginiaWoolf

Lenwood H. Morris (att.), Portraits de trois figures littéraires de la Harlem Renaissance : Georgia Douglas Johnson [1], Jessie Redmon Fauset [2] et Zora Neale Hurston [3] (ca. 1914-1918), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

#georgiadouglasjohnson #jessiefauset #zoranealehurston