Conrad kent rivers biography of mahatma gandhi

American poet (1933–1968)

Conrad Kent Rivers (1933–1968) was an American poet, fiction writer and dramatist.^[1]

Biography

Conrad Kent Rivers was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Cora McIver and William Dixon Rivers.^[2] He began writing poetry in high school and in 1951 his poem "Poor Peon" won the Savannah, Georgia, State Poetry Prize.^[3] He attended Wilberforce University, Chicago Teachers College and Indiana University. He taught high school in Chicago, Illinois, and in Gary, Indiana, while publishing poems in periodicals including the Antioch Review, Negro Digest, and Kenyon Review.^[1]

His first book of poetry, Perchance to Dream, Othello, was published in 1959. His second collection, These Black Bodies and This Sunburnt Face, was published in 1962, followed by Dusk at Selma (1965), and The Still Voice of Harlem, which was published a few weeks after Rivers' sudden death in 1968, at the age o