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Free public program Feb. 14 @ Main Library will feature community members sharing their favorite poems by African American Poets African Americans have profoundly influenced American poetry, from Phillis Wheatley to Paul Lawrence Dunbar, through the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s with Imamu Amiri Baraka and Audre Lorde, to Maya Angelou and Rita Dove and into our own twenty-first century explosion of brilliant new poets. In celebration, the Toledo Lucas County Public Library is excited to invite you to an evening of African American poetry. Members of our community will read favorite poems or excerpts by African American poets in a staged reading emceed by Rhonda Sewell, Toledo Lucas County Public Library's External and Governmental Affairs Manager. Poetry Speaks! African American Poetry Read-In Feb. 14, 6 - 8 p.m. Main Library Toledo Lucas County Public Library 325 N. Michigan St., Toledo Free parking is available in the Main Library’s underground parking structure. Readers to include: Clifford Murphy Ramona Collins Jim Ferris Imani Lateef Holly Monsos Brett Collins Hunter Prey Tankeeya Butts Jonie McIntire Sandra Gill Dr. Imelda Hunt And many more!