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  • Cheryl Boyce Taylor: Interview

    A Mother’s Duty: An Interview with Caribbean Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor by Mercy Tullis-Bukhari Towards the end of a New York summer, I met with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor for some conversation about womanhood, motherhood, and poetry. I had known Cheryl for several years. When I entered the poetry world professionally, her name was already floating in…

    April 4, 2019
    Elders, Interviews
    19 minutes
  • Hair: Black Feminine Haircare Division

    by Ciara Miller Both Gwendolyn Brooks and Carolyn Rodgers address the impact of Black beauty culture on Black women’s perception of self within their poems. According to Robert L. Boyd’s article “the Great Migration to the North and the Rise of Ethnic Niches for African American Women in Beauty Culture and Hairdressing, 1910-1920”, few studies…

    January 4, 2016
    Elders, Essay
    10 minutes
  • Sam Greenlee Dies at 83 | NYTimes.com

    Sam Greenlee, a novelist and poet best known for a low-budget 1973 movie made from his novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which envisioned a black power revolution led by a militant black ex-C.I.A. agent

    June 2, 2014
    Blog, Elders
    1 minute
  • Patricia Spears Jones

    by Rochelle Spencer Patricia Spears Jones is the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize About a month after 9/11, National Book Award recipient Lucille Clifton, in a reading at the New School with the poet Sonia Sanchez, shared a personal work-in-progress about the attacks –the powerful “a september song: a poem in 7 days.”…

    March 24, 2014
    Elders, Interviews
    12 minutes
  • Tim Seibles: Interview

    Tim Seibles by Remica Bingham-Risher In October 2012, Tim Seibles finally got a bit of his due. His latest book of poems, Fast Animal, was nominated for the National Book Award, putting his work in the spotlight for the national audience many agree it deserves. When Tim Seibles fell headlong into poetry as an undergraduate…

    March 13, 2014
    Elders, Interviews
    22 minutes
  • Amiri Baraka, The Ancestors Don’t Care About Your Plans

    On February 4, 2014, at New York University, poetry, love, and hundreds of Black Arts devotees filled two rooms to honor the activists Jayne Cortez (1934-2012) and Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) for their key roles as artists and teachers. Baraka’s death on January 4 was still fresh in the minds of many attendees, of which included Sandra…

    February 16, 2014
    Around Town, Elders, Essay
    2 minutes
  • Afaa Michael Weaver: Interview

    Afaa Michael Weaver by Randall Horton I first became familiar with Afaa Michael Weaver while immersed in an MFA program at Chicago State University through his poetry collection Talisman.

    January 22, 2014
    Elders, Interviews
    1 minute
  • J. California Cooper: Interview

    by Kimberly Collins J. California Cooper has plenty to say about life. She is, after all, the matriarch of the blues. A Berkley, California native, Cooper now lives in Portland, Oregon. She began her writing career as a playwright. During that time, her work caught Alice Walker’s attention who suggested that she turn her plays into stories.…

    October 16, 2013
    Elders, Interviews
    13 minutes
  • Albert Murray Dies at 97 | NYTimes.com

    Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture

    August 20, 2013
    Blog, Elders
    1 minute
  • William Demby: Interview

    William Demby, Author of Experimental Novels, Dies at 90 –NYT William Demby: A Writer’s Life by Steve Kemme Mosaic #20 October 2007 As novelist William Demby left the podium on the stage at the Cleveland Playhouse after addressing a nearly full auditorium, the audience showered him with an enthusiastic ovation. The outpouring of admiration was both…

    June 1, 2013
    Elders, Interviews
    9 minutes
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