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August 1, 2015
 

When I Rise Up

 
Georgia Douglas Johnson

About This Poem

 

“When I Rise Up” was published in Bronze: A Book of Verses (B. J. Brimmer Company, 1922).

 

Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1880. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, her collections of poetry include The Heart of a Woman (1918) and Share My World (1962). She died in 1966.

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