Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry is as relevant today as it was over a century ago. His ability to navigate between standard English and African American dialect, his exploration of universal and ...

Dedicated once again to his mother, this book contained, within its pages, perhaps Dunbar's best-known poem. - We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes ...

Born to former slaves in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), is best remembered for his poem, "We Wear the Mask” and for lines from “Sympathy” that became the title of Maya ...