In the late 1800s, the literary term poète maudit (literally ‘accursed poet’) was coined from the title of a collection of poetry by Paul Verlaine, in which he paid homage to himself and his ...

he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that showed what it felt like to be a Black man in Shreveport during the late 1800s and early- to mid-1900s. Comedian Kevin Hart ...