Writer Jessie Fauset
-Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) – Editor, poet, essayist, novelist. Fauset was born in Camden County, New Jersey. After her mother died when she was a young child, Fauset's minister father married a widowed mother of three and moved the family to Philadelphia. She received her undergraduate degree in Classical Languages from Cornell University and her Master’s Degree in French from University of Pennsylvania. Fauset held the position of editor of The Crisis (NAACP’s magazine) from 1919 to 1926. Through her reviews, her editorial critiques, and her choice of poetry, fiction, and essays for the magazine, Fauset introduced and guided the writing of Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and was the first to publish Langston Hughes.
Dead Fires
If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing,
Then better far the hateful fret, the
sting.
Better the wound forever seeking balm
Than this gray calm!
Is this pain's surcease? Better far the ache,
The long-drawn dreary day, the night's white
wake,
Better the choking sigh, the sobbing breath
Than passion's death!
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