Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar born in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the most popular

African-American poets of all time. His dialect poems

and humor in his works were often under appreciated due to the English standards

which were set at the time. His book was finally given

attention in "The Book of American Negro Poetry" in 1921 by James

Weldon Johnson. Among his numerous collections of poems are "Oak and Ivory" (1893) and "Majors and Minors" (1896). His birth in

1872 and his death in 1906 gave him enough time to give impact upon

the poetic world, and an impression of the true art of poetry.