Angela morgan poet biography project
Angela Morgan
American poet
Angela Morgan (c. – January 24, ) was an American poet. Her given name at birth was Nina Lillian, which she later changed to Angela.
Life
Nina Lillian Morgan was born in about , either in Washington, D.C., or in Yazoo County, Mississippi.[1] Her father was Albert T.
Morgan, a Northern abolitionist who moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi after the Civil War and became a state senator.[2] Her mother was Carrie Highgate, an "Octoroon"[3] member of a prominent family in Syracuse, New York; her eldest sister was Edmonia Highgate. Their interracial marriage was considered scandalous in Reconstruction-era Mississippi by white racists.[4]
Her family lived in Washington from to , and then moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and later to Topeka, Kansas.
In her father left home to become a gold prospector, and until Morgan earned money singing in a voice quartet with her three sisters. She married in ; the marriage was dissolved in [1]
Morgan became a journalist for the Chicago Daily American, and later worked on the New York American and on the Boston American.
Angela morgan poet biography project Included among the persons with whom she carried on an extensive correspondence are Robert Atwood, Mrs. Although widely published in popular magazines and the author of many volumes of poems and the writings, Angela Morgan was not regarded by her peers as a poet of the front rank. Their interracial marriage was considered scandalous in Reconstruction-era Mississippi by white racists. Obliged to support herself, her mother, and occasionally her two sisters, she employed her literary talents in the decade before W.She reported on court cases, published interviews and wrote "human-interest" pieces. She said that her experiences as a reporter motivated and inspired her to social commentary in her poems.[1]
Her first book of poetry, The Hour Has Struck, was published in , and in a poem appeared in Collier's Weekly.
In the same year she was a delegate to the first International Congress of Women at The Hague, in the Netherlands.[1]
Between and she lived in London, England. While there, she gave a poetry reading for the Poetry Society at the Savoy Chapel; she was the first woman to be invited to do so.[1]
Morgan had constant money troubles, and was declared bankrupt in She moved frequently in later life, spending time in Philadelphia, in Rydal, Pennsylvania, in Brattleboro, Vermont, at Saugerties[clarification needed] and at Mount Marion, New York, where on January 24, , she died.[1]
Awards
In Morgan received an honorary doctorate from Golden State University,[1] which at that time was in Los Angeles.