Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. As a poet, he was influenced both by Modernism and the language and experiences of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance. [1]

Known for his complex, visionary poetry, Melvin B. Tolson was one of America’s leading Black poets. He wrote within the modernist tradition and his work was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Tolson was born in 1898 in Moberly, Missouri.

Dec 22, 2007 · Born on February 6, 1898 in Moberly, Missouri, Melvin Beaunorus Tolson is known as one of the most significant African American modernist poets of his time. In addition, Tolson’s work as an educator led Langston Hughes to declare him “the most famous Negro Professor in the Southwest” in the mid-twentieth century.

Melvin B. Tolson is remembered as an activist, an advocate, and a mentor. He was also a playwright, poet, and writer who published several books of poetry and prose and won many awards for his distinguished career in writing.

February 6, 1898–August 29, 1966. Poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson inspired generations of students to stand up for equal rights and dignity. Tolson was born in Missouri in 1900 and grew up in the Midwest. In 1924 he began teaching at the historically Black Wiley College in …

Melvin B. Tolson was born in Moberly, Missouri, in 1898. He published three collections of poetry during his lifetime: Rendezvous with America (1944), Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953), and Harlem Gallery (1965).

Tolson, Melvin B. February 6, 1898 August 29, 1966. The poet and educator Melvin Beaunorus Tolson was born in Howard County, Missouri, to Alonzo Tolson, a Methodist minister, and Lera Tolson.

Melvin B. Tolson became the first Poet Laureate of the Republic of Liberia. Born in Moberly, Missouri, Tolson spent his junior and senior years at Kansas City’s Lincoln High School.

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recognized as one of black America's most important modernist voices. Playful, fluent, and intellectually sophisticated, his poems stirred up significant praise, and some lively criticism, during his lifetime but have been out of print for decades and essentially left out of the literary canon.