Poetry Face Off - Two Truths and One lie

Identify the lie

• Her home was a common meeting place during the 1980s

• She was a college graduate

• She was a famous Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright

Identify the lie.

• Both his parents had been enslaved persons before his birth

• He was friends with the Wright Brothers

• He was the first African American poet

Identify the lie.

• Born and raised in the Midwest

• Graduate of Columbia University

• Raised largely by his grandmother

Identify the lie.

• Her father was a janitor and her mother was a teacher

• First African American poet laureate; meaning the government paid her to write.

• She died young

Identify the lie.

• Raised by both his parents in a loving home

• Earned a graduate degree from the University of Michigan

• Converted to the Bahá'í Faith in 1943, which influenced his writings

Identify the lie

• She worked as a professional dancer

• Has an undergraduate degree from Harvard

• Lived her later years in North Carolina

Identify the lie

• Parents were members of the Black Panthers

• Attended school with Jada Pinkett Smith

• Still alive today