Dudley Randall
(1914-2000)
Dudley Randall (1914-2000) published his first poem in the
Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. After earning degrees in English and library science, Randall worked as a librarian until his 1974 retirement. He established Broadside Press in 1965, which became an important publisher of African-American poets and political writers. Randall translated Russian writers, and experimented with a variety of styles in his own poetry.
Poems
Booker T. and W.E.B.
