Maggie Pogue Johnson | |
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| Born | 1883 Fincastle, Virginia |
| Died | 1956 Clifton Forge, Virginia |
| Alma mater | Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and Composer |
Maggie Pogue Johnson (1883-1956) was a twentieth century Black American composer and poet. Johnson wrote verse in both standard English as well as in the dialect and speech patterns of Black Americans at the time,[1] which still retained the influence of their speech from when they were enslaved.[2]
- ^ Nurhussein, Nadia (2013). Rhetorics of Literacy. The Ohio State University Press. p. 164.
- ^ Bennett, Paula Bernat (2009). "Rewriting Dunbar: Realism, Black Women Poets, and the Genteel". Bloom's Modern Critical Views: African-American Poets, Volume 1 (PDF) (New ed.). New York, New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-60413-400-1.
Yet, by drawing her vernacular vignettes from the lives of post-bellum– pre-Harlem African Americans whose attitudes and speech patterns were close to their slave roots...