Mae+V.+Cowdery

=Mae V. Cowdery, poet of the Harlem Renaissance.= By: Audrey Huo Period 1

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Mae Virginia Cowdery (1909-1953) was born into a middle-class family. She was the only child of a social worker and a caterer. She was benefited from the environment of racial uplift that treasure the arts, talents and opportunity for African Americans. In 1927, while she was a student at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, she published writing and poems in a successful black intellectual journal. The journal also printed work by Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Alain Locke, and other notable people ("Cowdery").

Also in 1927, she won first prize in a poetry contest by //The Crisis//, for her poem "Longings", and another of her poems, "Lamps" won a Krigwa Prize for poetry. Cowdery was one of the few African American poets in the first half of the twentieth century to publish her own volume of poetry: This was //We Lift Our Voices and Other Poems// (1936). :Cowdery had published a big amount of poetry during the late 1920s in journals, and magazines. Cowdery fitted in to the Harlem Renaissance because she wrote poems about african americans in the United States, and she became friends with other poets.

God Is Kind, He lets us dream Of untarnished silver… Of skies that have never known The pain of a storm… Of the peace and contentment In a robin’s even song We dream of love Without its aftermath Of loneliness… God Is kind, He lets us dream Of unattainable things!
 * God Is Kind **
 * By: Mae V. Cowdery **

Meaning of the poem...

The meaning of the poem is about how kind God is and what he does. He lets blacks dream about things that they think won't happen. He lets blacks dream about almost anything. Silver will always tarnish so God makes them dream about silver that will never tarnish. Skies that have never know the pain of a storm, meaning skies that have never had a storm before. The skies have always been clear blue and peaceful. But that will never happen because the world is like the sky, it will //never// be blue, peaceful.

In a robin's even song people can hear the peace and contentment. They can dream of love. Without knowing about the loneliness it will eventually bring. God is kind because he does these things.


 * Works Cited**

Wintz, Cary D., and Paul Finkelman. "Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance - Google Books." //Google Books//. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. [].

"The Crisis - Google Books." //Google Books//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. [].