Beyond the Mask Documentary Discover the complex life and legacy of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American to gain national fame as a ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...

"Paul Laurence Dunbar ... within its pages, perhaps Dunbar's best-known poem. - We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile ...