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SUMMARY:Black Poetry Day Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Black Poetry Day is celebrated every year on October 17 to honor all the talented African American poets\, both past and present. If you’re a literature enthusiast\, poet\, or writer — no matter your race — you’ll absolutely love Black Poetry Day where you can celebrate black heritage and history. Black Poetry Day is celebrated in commemoration of the birth of the man popularly referred to as the father of African American literature\, Jupiter Hammon\, the first published black poet in the United States of America. Black Poetry Day is a day to recognize the contributions of black poets to literature and celebrate the black experience as retold in poetry. \n  \nEVENT INFO TBA
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