Today’s Poem: Life-long, Poor Browning

Anne Spencer imagines Robert Browning in a heaven that looks like Virginia

Anne Spencer’s garden retreat (Wikimedia Commons)

Today’s Poem, “Life-Long, Poor Browning,”  breathes the air of the Virginia garden house where the poet Anne Spencer (1882–1975) retreated to write. Spencer, one of three African-American women included in the 1973 Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, strikes a unique note among the voices of the Harlem Ren…