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April 19, 2014
 

Rondeau

 
Jessie Redmon Fauset

About This Poem

 

Jessie Redmon Fauset’s poem “Rondeau,” was first published in the April 1912 issue of The Crisis, a magazine founded by W. E. B. Du Bois to be the premier crusading voice for civil rights.

 

Jessie Redmon Fauset, an American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist, was born in Camden County, New Jersey, in 1882. Fauset, an editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis, published four novels and numerous poems and short stories before her death in 1961.

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