University of Kansas: Literary Inquiry Explores Legacy of Poet, Journalist Frank Marshall Davis
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 19 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news on Dec. 18, 2023:
Frank Marshall Davis was virtually lost to the canon of African American poets when he left the 48 contiguous states for the Territory of Hawaii in 1948. Twenty-five years later, he would be discovered and brought back to the mainland to an appreciative audience of students at several historically Black colleges and universities. In new work, a University of Kansas professor emeritus of . . .
Frank Marshall Davis was virtually lost to the canon of African American poets when he left the 48 contiguous states for the Territory of Hawaii in 1948. Twenty-five years later, he would be discovered and brought back to the mainland to an appreciative audience of students at several historically Black colleges and universities. In new work, a University of Kansas professor emeritus of . . .