Honors
In 1979, the District of Columbia declared May 1, his birthday, Sterling A. Brown Day.
His Collected Poems won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the early 1980s for the best book of poetry published that year.
In 1984 the District of Columbia named him its first poet laureate, a position he held until his death from leukemia at the age of 88.
The Friends of Libraries USA in 1997 named Founders Hall at Howard University a Literary Landmark, the first so designated in Washington, DC.
Read more about this topic: Sterling Allen Brown
Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“My heart’s subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)